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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1094677, member: 5739&quot;]Well, if I had bought a bunch of gold 10 years ago when I was 16, I would be doing pretty well right now..... at least you are into coin collecting now. 14 is still young to start collecting, I only picked wheats out of change when I found them when I was that age, just because they were different and I only rarely got them in change, I knew nothing about them. </p><p>My dad had given me some buffalo nickels and such when I was young and I was interested for a bit in US coins, but had no way or means of adding to my collection as a young kid in Southern Arizona.... I didn&#039;t become much of a collector untill I discovered my local coin shop a bit later on, and started to see all sorts of interesting World Coins and the likes, and talk about them with people.</p><p>&nbsp;More recently I ended up working for an elderly man who was born in 1910, he was 96 when&nbsp; I started taking care of him, he graduated from Oxford in the 1930&#039;s, and he had later been a professor of the Classics at Princeton here in the states. He used a binder that he had full of pages that held coins, from Ancient Greece, through the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, and up to the time of the American Revolution to let the students hold the history they were being taught in their hand, he would take the coins out and pass them around the room. He got me even more interested in World coins and Ancient coins especially, and ended up giving me quite a few nice coins that I treasure to this day. ( the one below isn&#039;t one from him, just one of my favorites and most beautiful from my personal collection of Ancient Roman silver coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy your collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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