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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GH#75, post: 4855631, member: 101202&quot;]The first coin in my collection was a wheat penny that my grandpa gave to me. I looked at it, and thought about how old it was. Older than him, surely.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Is that the date? What&#039;s the &quot;D&quot; mean? Where did you get it?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That was when I was 6.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s what got me collecting. Whenever I saw a penny, I&#039;d look at it to see if it was a wheat cent. And if it was, I could pop it in the old whitman folder my grandpa had given me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward a few years, I&#039;m still working on the old whitman folder. I&#039;d ask my dad to get coin rolls at the bank, and I&#039;d spend hours looking through them, finding as many as 1 wheat cent per roll. The only problem was when my mom told me to clean up the mess I&#039;d left when I was done.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As of now, I&#039;m 14 and have been collecting for 8 years. And in those 8 years, I have put together nearly a full album of wheat cents. As of now, I&#039;m only missing 15 dates in between 1909 until now. 13 of them are from the 1909 - 1940 album, and the other two are the 60 small date, and the 70 s small date. Finding all these took a long time, but I love doing it, so it&#039;s definitely worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of these coins are from wheat rolls, but most of the rares ones were bought or given to me. Special thanks to [USER=106592]@Zebmonster[/USER] for helping me with over 20 blank holes in my album!</p><p><br /></p><p>And now, I&#039;m almost done... With the album I mean. I&#039;ll never be done upgrading these coins with better examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder what it will be like when I put in the last coin, the 1909 s vdb.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172510[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172515[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172516[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172517[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172508[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172514[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172511[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172512[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1172513[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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