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Message:: [QUOTE="longshot, post: 2281524, member: 76266"]I remember as a youngster maybe 5-6 years old my mother had a couple of quart jars half full of coins that she had pulled from circulation. Once in a while she would let me play with them. I would dump them out on my bedspread and sort them, intrigued by the different designs. There were buffalo nickels, mercs, walkers, and at least one 1921 Morgan. I didn't know anything about collecting as a hobby, I just thought they were neat. A few years later I somehow got a Littleton advertisement and ordered an uncirculated Peace Dollar. They sent a very nice coin, common date but light gold toning with excellent luster. I thought it was great. I was hooked. Soon I was buying as many dates of circulated Morgans as I could afford. I didn't know much at first, but fortunately I bought many of my coins from a mail-order dealer who sent correctly graded coins and was up front about describing problems in his list. I read everything I could find about coins and was soon working on a type set. Also as a young man I remember being at a gun/coin show with very limited funds in my pocket but looking to buy a few low value vintage coins to scratch my collecting itch when I saw a very impressive French 1868 5 francs coin. I thought it was a striking design, it was the most I had ever spent on a coin and it about cleaned me out but I bought it. So older world silver has also been of interest to me...[/QUOTE]