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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kanderus, post: 1244324, member: 28447&quot;]Well my story starts a long time ago, for me at least. I was maybe 9 or so (25 now.) and my I heard my dad yelling a screaming that he had his coins stolen (It was my older step brother who did it.) I asked him what was wrong and told him I would try to help him get them back. Little did I know that he had Double Eagles and the like in there and it was virtually impossible for me to do anything about recovering them. Well, he showed me what he had left, as apparently my step brother was taking a little at a time here and there. I saw some Morgan and Peace dollars, Liberty Walking halves, etc etc and I just remembered thinking those look nothing like what I had in my change bank, though I did not know what they were per say.</p><p><br /></p><p>Flash forward to a few years ago. I had a small collection...nothing major but I had to be sold to buy food and what not when this economy really took a dive and I got laid off. At the time they were just money in the bank for me. Nothing more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Flash forward a couple years after that, and few months ago...maybe 9 - 10 months. I have a wife and a good job that pays the bills. I had been watching silver for few months at this point and it was rising in value. First $10, then $15, etc etc. I ask to buy a roll of quarters for laundry. I only had $5 on me, so I got half the roll. In my half was a 1961D Washington. <b>*Nibbling*</b>. Then a few weeks later I buy another roll of quarters, this time a full roll and once again for laundry. 1964D Washington. <b>*HOOKED*</b>. Christmas comes and I got from my father in law a 3pc set of steel cents, a 1938D Buffalo, a silver Roosevelt and Winged Liberty dime, a 1942 Washington Quarter, and a 1964 Kennedy Half. <b>*Getting reeled in*</b>.&nbsp; Then I start finding other silver coins, mostly quarters oddly enough, and some 40% Kennedy halves at bank and in laundry rolls. I eventually bought a 1901-O Morgan off of a friend who needed gas money for $20, melt was $22 at the time. My grandma comes up to visit me, and it is a few months away from my birthday, but she lives 600 miles away, so she brought me a present since she was in the Sacramento area for the National Money Show. She gives me my first Red Book 2011, an 1863 IHC, 1975-S Lincoln Cent proof, a 1953 Roosevelt dime, a 1957-S Washington Quarter that it my fair opinion is roughly MS62, a 1963 Franklin half, and an 1890 Morgan. <u><b>*In the boat!*</b></u>. My appreciation of the coins are amplified when I found out that they were coins from my Great Grandma (my Grandma provided the Morgan.), and the IHC, proof Lincoln, and the quarter all had my Great Grandfather&#039;s hand writing on them, someone who I never had the privledge to meet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since then I have done some roll searching with not too much luck, but I have made a few (minor is most collector&#039;s eyes.) numismatic purchases. A 1929 SLQ in about G-VG, a 1944 Liberty Walking half dollar in about AU-55 - 58 (this may just be my all time favorite.), a Barber dime, and a 40% silver bicentennial Kennedy half and Washington quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know this was long winded, but coin collecting is now a true passion of mine that will never leave me. Even though I have a few silver coins that most would consider &#039;junk&#039; I just can&#039;t see my self selling them. Most people use 40% Kennedy&#039;s, silver dimes and quarters with no major numismatic value and what not as fuel for the next purchase of a rare or collectible coin...but I just can&#039;t do that...at least not yet. I found these things, rescued them from being spent on soup, toilet paper, dinner out, clothes...god knows what else. Every time I find a silver coin, or anything else rare or uncommon I hear the Indiana Jones theme play in my head. I know that part of the reason that I can&#039;t bring myself to spend them is because they are silver and it is an investment for my future and the price could rise etc etc, but also I just like knowing that they are in appreciative hands... To some people, these coins are just dates and metal, precious or otherwise. Not for me, not for us.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could go on forever, I am just going to post this and then check on the Padres...maybe watch some TV with my wife.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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