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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob Evancho, post: 3344911, member: 84595&quot;]I have been a coin COLLECTOR for 64 years.&nbsp; I started at the age of 6 (1955)&nbsp; picking blue berries and princess pine to garner some income.&nbsp; I would go to the bank and pick up a couple rolls of pennies and started filling the penny folder. It was a HOBBY and I learned a lot about coins and the minting process, their mintages, rarities, errors, grading, counterfeit and altered coins and many other aspects of the HOBBY from reading books. I went to my first coin show at age 7 and bought a good 1918/7-D Buffalo for $20.&nbsp; Expensive for me at the time and I still have it.&nbsp; I continued reading and learning about coins and continue studying the coin HOBBY to this day.&nbsp; And continued to work to earn money. I have over $4,000 in coin reference books by many of the well know authors.&nbsp; I tell every coin collector young and older to &quot;Read the Book Before You Buy the Coin&quot;.&nbsp; Learn grading and learn the meaning of eye appeal.&nbsp; Over the past 20 years I have cherry picked many dealers at small coin shows.&nbsp; All coins have been added to my coin collection HOBBY.&nbsp; I had a Service station from 1975 till 1980 and bought silver and gold coins and used the bullion sales profit to buy RARE coins.&nbsp; I bought gold coins at $38 per ounce and have many of them in my collection.&nbsp; I bought my first 1799/8 VF Large cent at $525 and my first Fine 1893-S Morgan for $525.&nbsp; I bought 12 1903-O Morgan dollars at $12.50 each when they were released and flooded the market.&nbsp; Same goes for my GSA CC dollars. You hopefully get the idea, buy low, hold, and then sell when you retire from the HOBBY.&nbsp; Buy RARE and key dates first with extra money.&nbsp; Common coins will always be common.&nbsp;&nbsp; What is your objective?&nbsp; Do you want to be a dealer or a Coin Collector/Numismatist?&nbsp; Over what period of time do you want to make money on coins?&nbsp; Short term or Long term? Study every book you can get your hands on and study GRADING and EYE APPEAL.&nbsp; Remember TPG&#039;s make mistakes and they do suggestive and subjective grading. Buy the coin based on your strict GRADING and Eye Appeal and learn varieties.&nbsp; Enjoy the coin collecting HOBBY and if you want to be a DEALER, study, study, study every coin book and GRADING guide you can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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