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Message:: [QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 965166, member: 25270"]I was always collecting one thing after another when I was a kid, some traditional collectibles like baseball cards and some things only I was interested in, like bottle caps, used shotgun shells, rocks with fossils in them, and more. Any time I found a coin that was different than the usual, like a wheat penny, I saved it. That's why wheat pennies still kind of thrill me when I find them even if they're nothing special value-wise. At some point my dad gave me the coins he had brought back from his army days serving in Europe and my grandmother gave me the coins she had saved. My grandparents owned a bar and gathered various coins over the years, and I think they had some from my grandfather's brother's service in WWII. Unfortunately my grandmother had had a lot of silver coins but she sold them all when silver prices were high in the 80s.  Anyway, when I got older and had a job and started to get ahead of my bills, I decided to start getting more serious into coin collecting and doing more than just searching my change. So I started buying on eBay and going to coin shops.[/QUOTE]