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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8160739, member: 100459&quot;]I don&#039;t know how many of you started from scratch when you were young.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t start until I got my father&#039;s &quot;collection&quot; as it was.&nbsp; I live in a small town in Eastern North Carolina and I only got help from Coin Talk or a collector in Raleigh which is an hour away.&nbsp; I learned the hard way, by buying from the Mint when I started and I did buy a bunch of junk.&nbsp; Someone lead me to ebay, and I bought a lot of junk there.&nbsp; Finally, when I started reading coin websites by collector&#039;s nor dealers, I learned a lot more, but I still paid way too much for my coins.&nbsp; I have the Proof Sets from 2009 to&nbsp; 2021, which aren&#039;t worth much today.&nbsp; I also bought the Silver Proof Sets and the Silver Proof ATB Quarters Sets.&nbsp; The one annual set that I&#039;m really glad I bought was the 2018 San Francisco Mint Reverse Proof Silver Set. </p><p>I like to watch the TV Coin Shows for laughs.&nbsp; I learn a lot from Rick&#039;s Show.&nbsp; I bought one coin from him when I first started.&nbsp; It had been graded by NGC PF or MS70 and was the year that the Congratulation ASE was sold out.&nbsp; I bought 10 nice and shiny Morgan 1921 coins in a tube for $500, also bought when first started.&nbsp; Mike must record his show, because when I flip through the channels the same ad has been run for T-1 ASEs for the past week.&nbsp; I have bought coins through ebay for my collection of coins minted the year of my birth (1947).&nbsp; The graded coins were MS65-MS66 and I have 1947 RAW coins.&nbsp; It is a nice way to collect coins. My 2 favorites are the 1947 S/S MS65 RPM FS-501 and the 1947(P) Jefferson Nickel MS66 from the Omaha Bank Hoard.&nbsp; It&#039;s nice to find some odd ducks out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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