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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hotpocket, post: 1903728, member: 44182&quot;]When I was 8 years old, my aunt came back from a trip to Europe and gave me all of her leftover change/coins.&nbsp; It was a variety of common coins from England, Switzerland, France, Germany, Ireland and Austria.&nbsp; I was absolutely hooked.&nbsp; The next year she traveled to Asia and brought me coins from China and Japan.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have every one of those coins to this day.&nbsp; My mom bought me a large book of world coins (which I also still have) and I spent countless hours looking up the coins and cataloging them.&nbsp; By the time I was 10 years old I had quite the collection.&nbsp; I then started asking relatives for coins instead of toys/games and began receiving Proof sets from the US mint and other coin sets.&nbsp; By 12 years old I sold almost all of my toys at our family garage sale and used the money to buy some Morgan Silver Dollars (with my grandfather at a local flea market).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since my family is originally from Germany I have specialized in German coins over the past 10 years or so.&nbsp; But if it were not for my Aunt giving me some common coins, I might not have taken an interest in collecting.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Morale of the story - give a youngster some coins!&nbsp; It may inspire them to begin collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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