How Did You Get Started?

The foundation of my collection was given to me by my dad, who began collecting when he was a boy in the 1960s delivering newspapers in NYC. Since he retired he has started collecting again, and his collection is truely impressive. We have a great time talking about coins and the hobby has made us closer than we have ever been.

 

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I do, well kind of. I put a little bit aside from each pay check for my "coin fund". I also stopped buying a bunch of average coins and now only buy a select few nice ones.

 

My dad passed down an Indian head cent collection to me, and my mother passed down a large cent collection.

 

My collection lay dormant for a number of years until my mother died and left me a slew of large cents I didn't even know existed.

 

I spent a large amount of money after I inherited my mother's coin collection recently. I'm wondering now if that wasn't a mistake.