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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MaestroPCG, post: 143896, member: 5985&quot;]I&#039;ve recently discovered CoinTalk, and I&#039;m glad there&#039;s a place to read/share about my hobby/addiction.&nbsp; Kind of like an online support group.&nbsp; :smile </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m 36, and while I&#039;m not new to the hobby, I&#039;ve only been at it a few years and have limited disposable income with which to build my collection.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been interested in coins since I found my parents small stash of Spanish coins, plus one Morgan and two Peace dollars.&nbsp; It sounds unimpressive, but to my 10-year-old self it was like stumbling onto buried treasure.&nbsp; When I decided to start collecting seriously a few years back, I settled on building a U.S. type set, which has been a great endeavor for me.&nbsp; I&#039;ve completed one set (sans gold) and am working on my second alongside my 11 year old son.&nbsp; My other son is into Canadian coins (don&#039;t know where that came from) and I&#039;ve branched out into building year sets of Peace &amp; Morgan dollars.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s where I&#039;m going with this...I really enjoy the hobby, and I&#039;m glad that my kids have found an interest in it as well, but I usually feel like I&#039;m the only person in this hobby.&nbsp; I have many good friends, all of whom are happy to talk about sports or movies...but when I mention coins, they all kind of snicker and roll their eyes.&nbsp; So maybe coins aren&#039;t &quot;cool&quot; to everyone (who knew? LOL) but there have GOT to be some other people that share my interest on a similar level.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I know that most of you are already thinking, &quot;Go to some coin shows or join a coin club&quot; and those are good thoughts.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done that, and I&#039;ve enjoyed my time at those places.&nbsp; However, I&#039;m still having trouble breaking past the initial small talk and finding a friend in the hobby.&nbsp; Everyone&#039;s interested as long as I&#039;m buying something, but the conversation usually ends after I&#039;ve handed over my money.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The other guys that I&#039;ve met at the shows and the club are usually considerably older than me, which doesn&#039;t bother me, and they&#039;ve got years of experience and typically much more extensive collections.&nbsp; Maybe to them I&#039;m just a &quot;kid&quot; who&#039;s dabbling in THEIR hobby.&nbsp; I kind of feel like the kid who showed up for Major League baseball tryouts with a tee-ball bat in my hand.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How many of you have found good friends in the hobby?&nbsp; I&#039;d like to find someone who I can talk coins with...someone who wants to show off their collection...someone that I can trade with...someone I can compare deals with...are those people out there?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>pCG[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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