I am just your typical young collector who appreciates the art and designs of coins. I started my interest in collecting when I was about nine years old, when my dad showed me a piece of paper that had an imprint of a coin that he traced it over with a pencil...I was fascinated and interested so I started doing my research...asking people all over what this coin/imprint was and then a year later I found out that it was a morgan dollar.... I wanted it, I had to have it...but when I saw it in an ad on a magazine, I nearly fell off my seat, it was around $10 for a circulated coin that time...I did not care what condition it was in...I got hooked and so I saved my lunch money until I got enough to purchase it, my parents sent a check and every day I waited, it felt like forever...until, two weeks later...I opened the package...and saw it for the first time, I held it in my hand and I was speechless...the beauty of it...its sound, the weight and its appearance got me hooked... I had it for about a couple of years...carried it in my pocket as a good luck charm until someone stole it from me...by then I had accumulated a small collection of raw coins and was trying to form a barber quarter set...but I grew out of coin collecting...I started dating girls and hanging out with my friends...and soon I forgot all about coin collecting...I graduated high school and quickly left to join the armed forces... I've stopped collecting for about seven years until just recently that my interest in coin collecting grew to an all-time-high... While being stationed in Washington, I passed by a coin store and I was lured once again...the glint of silver in the corner of my eye...caught my attention....that I bought my first slabbed coin and a couple of Morgan dollars in a junk pile... Ever since then...I have been going to coin shops/coin shows and purchasing slabbed silver coins I find interesting...coins have a way of putting you in a trance...Imagine, a coin dated 1879 and yet it looks like it just came off the mint...it makes you wonder how far the coin traveled until it reached in your hands??? Thanks for taking the time to read and happy hunting=) -acsf89
