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Message:: [QUOTE="Bluegill, post: 45637, member: 1748"]When I was small--I don't know how old, but I guess about six--I was on the Belle of Louisville, a refurbished steamboat tourist attraction on the Ohio River. Some old guy I didn't know, and who in my possibly inaccurate 30-year-old memory of the event I recall as wearing a suit and a bowler and smoking a cigar, said, "Hey, boy, c'mere." I walked over to him and he said, "This is because you're a good kid," and he handed me a 1900 silver dollar. It sat in a decorative bowl in our diningroom hutch for many years, but now I have it in a binder. In the words of the Mafia appraiser on The Simpsons, "It won't fetch much cash, but it's sentimental value is through the roof!" At any rate, it's still just about the most valuable coin I own--worth about, what, $10.00? When I was eight or nine, my dad got me started on a Whitman folder, using numerous extras from his wheat penny jar and our various piggy banks. I've kept coins that interested me ever since, but it's only been in the past several years that I've tried to educate myself and actually become a collector instead of a random accruer.[/QUOTE]