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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1825728, member: 57463&quot;]Like X115, did not start until I was 40.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like most of the others here, I am a baby boomer, born in 1949.&nbsp; But I did not collect coins as a kid.&nbsp; My Mom tried to get my brother and me interested in stamps and that worked for less than a year and we never went to a shop or bought more albums. She brought home a couple of albums and worked for a company that did a lot of international business. I think the albums came with a mixed bag of world commons.&nbsp; Like everyone, I had baseball cards, but it was the game, not the cards per se, that was the motivation.&nbsp; I had far more passion for my telescope and microscope. </p><p><br /></p><p>I collected for about 10 years. In 2000, after working for Coin World for a year, I sold the bulk of my accumulations.&nbsp; I kept about 100 items: coins (mostly ancients), tokens, banknotes, stock certificates, etc. I have been scanning those and posting them in the discussions.&nbsp; One exception was that in order to write about the great medieval fairs, I bought a dozen different medieval coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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