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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 24658003, member: 100459&quot;]I was very fortunate.&nbsp; My wife (wife #1) was the secretary for the Director of Library Services when I was in college.&nbsp; I got a job at the library checking in and out the library books.&nbsp; Each evening, I would take a few coin home and go through them while I continued to study.&nbsp; Minimum wage was about $2 and hour.&nbsp; I worked about 20 hours a week.&nbsp; I got paid every 2 weeks for net $150 per month.&nbsp; I also had the G.I. Bill.&nbsp; Being married with 2 children, I got about $400 a month for a total of $550 net.&nbsp; With my wife&#039;s salary of a$450 a month.&nbsp; We rented a duplex for $125 a month.&nbsp; Childcare was about $140 a month.&nbsp; We were very lucky with everything we had each month.&nbsp; While at the library, I would find a desk to study when I caught up a book on coin collecting.&nbsp; Although I wasn&#039;t a collector at that time, I learned a great deal about coins.&nbsp; I started to look at all the coins my wife got for her change.&nbsp; I got hooked, but only as much as I could find.&nbsp; That was about 1975.&nbsp; In 1996, my father passed due to a car accident.&nbsp; That was when I found his collection that was to be divided between my brother and by.&nbsp; However, my mother did not want to go through his collection until she passed.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t until my mother passed that my brother and I finally got a chance to look at them.&nbsp; Few of them were pristine condition, and even less were really collectable condition.&nbsp; We decided to take inventory and divide them.&nbsp; It was hard to do because my brother lives in L.A., California and I live about 60 miles from Raleigh, North Carolina.&nbsp; Anyway, he sent be a list of the coins and when I was through with looking over the list, I prepared to lists...A and B.&nbsp; I told him to decide which list he wanted.&nbsp; Neither of us knew anything about coins, so he picked one list and I took the other list.&nbsp; He put all of his coins in pickle jar and he gave me the coins from the other list.&nbsp; I went over the list and realized I had no clue what I was doing.&nbsp; &nbsp; I did find out that Morgan dollar coins were desirable, so, I decided to look up Morgan dollar coins.&nbsp; I was watching a show where &quot;Mike&quot; was selling 3 Morgan dollar coins.&nbsp; I liked them, so I bought the a set of three Morgan dollar coins...The 3 coin set were named &quot;The Wild West Collection&quot;.&nbsp; The three Morgans are a 1882CC, 1883CC, and an 1884CC.&nbsp; They cost me $1,500 and were graded MS65 each.&nbsp; Since then, I have bee collecting anything that needed a friend.</p><p>I liked them so good, that I bought a tube of 20 Morgans that looked like good medicine.&nbsp; The all looked nice.&nbsp; They were not graded, but I bought them anyway for $500.&nbsp; They all looked good with only a few scratches.&nbsp; </p><p>That is my story of coin collecting.&nbsp; Not all of my coins were as nice as those that sold me my first coins.</p><p>Best of Luck to all you lucky collectors.&nbsp; I am now 75 and am awaiting news from my doctors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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