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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24865113, member: 26430&quot;]I would estimate 25-40 lawns (at $10 each)! I wish I had the collecting discipline (and work ethic) today that I had when I was a little kid.</p><p><br /></p><p>My process: Around age 7 or so (1985?) my parents took me to the British Museum and immediately after I bought Sear&#039;s Greek Coins &amp; Their Values vol 1 for 25 GBP. (A lot then.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked at Sear&#039;s photos and planned. Athens Owl. Aegina Turtle. Alexander Tetradrachm. Corinth Stater.</p><p><br /></p><p>I literally saved all year and bought one coin per summer until I had all those ones. (And a few others with any leftovers.) After that I took a break from collecting for maybe 10 years, or not quite. But I was very happy with my half dozen or so coins!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I had a couple friends that dropped out of high school and started a landscaping business (in Tucson, so mostly desert stuff, not grass). After one season they bought a big ad in the Yellow Pages (for those Americans who remember what that was!).</p><p><br /></p><p>By the next year they were mostly just subcontracting out all their orders, keeping a cut, and making a good &quot;adult&quot; income. (I guess people liked their name: Yard Birds. It&#039;s gone now, but did what it needed to for a good decade or so.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, I don&#039;t know anything about modern coins, and they weren&#039;t collectors, but the bank gave one of them a roll of some newly released error quarters maybe 20 years ago, give or take? He noticed they were weird, kept them, sold it for 5 figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should&#039;ve kept doing landscaping!&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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