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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1904172, member: 25357&quot;]I got started 10 years ago this month.&nbsp; My Grandfather had passed a few years before, and his eldest son, my uncle, called all of us kids and grandkids together to &quot;see what was in Opa&#039;s old safe in the basement.&quot;&nbsp; Although in retrospect, I think he had a pretty good idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow we all got together, my uncle opened up the old wall safe, and in it were literally thousands of coins.&nbsp; Gramps had accumulated a lot of junk silver, but there were also gold coins, Morgan Dollars, Peace Dollars and all kinds of crazy stuff including a couple of 100lb bags of junk silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>We split all the coins up into lots and each took home a small hoard.&nbsp; It was digging through the junk silver that actually got me hooked. I started out just by seeing how many date/mint marks I could pick out of the junk silver piles. Eventually I picked up a couple of Whitman folders and filled them up. I was able to assemble a complete set of heavily circulated Washington quarters, minus the 1932D and 1932S.&nbsp; I went to a coin shop and was told that these are what is known as&nbsp; &quot;Key Dates.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; It wasn&#039;t long before those two empty holes in my Whitman folder were bugging me...I went back to the coin shop to see what the dealer was asking for those two key dates...I was bit by the bug, and I&#039;ve really never looked back.&nbsp; I collected all of the classic 19th and 20th Century series, from Morgan Dollars to Indian Head Cents to Standing Liberty Quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Within the last year I&#039;ve shifted my focus from US coins to Ancients.&nbsp; I&#039;m focusing on Roman Imperial coinage and having a blast!&nbsp; The stories those coins could tell if they could speak.&nbsp; There&#039;s something for everyone in this hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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