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Message:: [QUOTE="Mat, post: 1160412, member: 21445"]My grandfather got me into this hobby in 1983 with the usual whitman lincoln books. He took the time to teach me how to handle the coins, not to clean them, what the mint marks meant and buying a few lowball stuff to get me started. He passed away the day after xmas in 1990 and I continued with the hobby till about 1994 when I entered jr high and of course high school/college. After coins I got into comic books, comic book trading cards and some rocks/fossils and WWE Wrestling. I lost interest in alot of that in 2001 except wrestling, I got tired of it in 2009 and thats when I fell back into collecting coins. I ended up selling alot of my junk comic books, trading cards & wrestling memorabilia to put towards coins. I mainly focused on upgrading my u.s type set but seeing how high coins have gone up and how everything is about slabs it was shying me away from them. Thanks to posters here sharing their collections and such I got interested in Ancients. I even bought my first ancient from a board member here and since then I have been hooked on them. I occasionally buy upgrades to my U.S. coins but I tend to just spend it on 3-4 nice ancients vs 1  high -mid-grade half or something. I also love the history ancients provide instead of a limited history U.S. coins bring. But I have always had to have a hobby and collect things. Ive tried a little bit of everything but it seems coins are where it's at.[/QUOTE]