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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 25998676, member: 13650&quot;]Really enjoyed reading that over coffee this morning.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hope generations to come can come back here, run across that story and imagine what life was like for a collector during those years.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>My journey- (in a nutshell)</u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I got started about four decades after you in the 80s-90s and most of what I received were gifts.&nbsp;&nbsp; I liked coins and was fascinated by the Coin World Newspaper I&#039;d get as a hand me down from a stranger I barely knew up the street.&nbsp;&nbsp; Between that and an occasional magazine, that was all the info I had.&nbsp;&nbsp; No internet, no real collectors in the family. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Most coins seemed out of reach and trying to understand the entire expanse of coinage was overwhelming so I mostly focused on sports cards for most of my youth.&nbsp; At that time any shop owner could convince you something was rare and hard to obtain because it actually was when you didn&#039;t have the internet to track things down. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; How did I fund things?&nbsp; Well, I mowed lawns.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wheeled and dealed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Had a paper route.&nbsp; Helped contractors.&nbsp;&nbsp; By my early teens there was no place my friends and I couldn&#039;t travel by bicycle.&nbsp; No cell phones with us.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Parents didn&#039;t really know where we were most of the time though we did spend a lot of time playing video games too.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I got a summer job at a factory in 1999.&nbsp; Got a big raise and it was the most I ever made up to that point...&nbsp; $7.00/hr.&nbsp; &nbsp; Gas was $1.33/gal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even dropped to 0.98/gal. for a brief time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It would be another 9 years before the passion for coin collecting came back to me again and has never left.&nbsp;&nbsp; I enjoy reading about coins as much as going to a show and purchasing one.&nbsp; Also like photographing coins because it enlarges them and better captures the art of their designs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The current collection has just been a slow, gradual grind since 2008.&nbsp; Some years more active than others.&nbsp;&nbsp; I still receive one as a gift now and then but few people know I collect.&nbsp; Now it&#039;s become a relaxing escape to just think about coins sometimes.&nbsp;&nbsp; The NGC registry is a decent portion of my collection and gives me a feeling of accomplishment.&nbsp; Also a way to enjoy and share what I have without physically getting things out.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a process now.&nbsp; If I get something for a registry set, document the label number, enter it in, photograph it , add it all to the set, maybe add a comment, and then there it is for me to bring up and look at any time on phone or computer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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