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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3006916, member: 112&quot;]The very first two coins I ever collected were 2 dimes, one dated 1903, the other 1910. They were given to me on my 7th birthday (1960), by my grandmother. She had saved them from the time she got married, early 1930&#039;s, as they were her and my grandfather&#039;s birth years. The reason she gave them to me was she saw the interest I was taking in my grandfather&#039;s coin collection. That&#039;s what started the whole thing, a lifetime of, at first collecting and eventually just studying coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a kid I had all the various blue Whitman folders for all denominations and did my best to fill them. I worked all kinds of jobs, from raking leaves to shoveling snow, to mowing grass, to babysitting, and yeah I even worked as a paperboy too. I also worked with my parents, at their jobs, also starting when I was 7. By the time I was 11 I could paint and hang wallpaper with the best of them ! All of this work resulted in filling a lot of folders. Most found in change, but even back then it was not uncommon to be able to find at least some Unc coins in change. And I got a whole lot more of them at the banks. I used to go to the bank almost every week and buy rolls of coins, always asking for the new ones if they had any. This included buying rolls of silver dollars because back then every bank had them. I&#039;d sort out the ones and return the rest, usually for more coins ! And I had an aunt that worked at one of the banks so she was always on the lookout for me and would often pay me for my babysitting for her with coins she knew I wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course when I discovered girls, or should say when I discovered how much they liked me at 15, things changed a lot and real fast ! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; For a while coin collecting kinda got put on hold, but I never stopped completely, more like slowed down a lot. In later years I got real serious about it again and never looked back.</p><p><br /></p><p>From all the stories I&#039;ve ever heard and or read over all the years, things were little different for anybody else. Pretty much ever coin collector I ever heard of who started when they were young - their story was a lot like mine. The were different in some ways of course, but the similarities were always there. And I doubt that even today things are any different. Doubt they ever will be <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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