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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mark_h, post: 795360, member: 3726&quot;]Nice coins and a great way to start.&nbsp; I do not have pictures of my first, but below is my second one.&nbsp; My story is a little different - after my mom&#039;s death in 2000 starting in 2001 my father started talking coins a lot.&nbsp; Just something we have had in common my whole life.&nbsp; We did this for about a year and in late 2003 we decided to shop around and the local coins stores. We looked, but did not buy - first I decided to complete my 1/10 and 1/4 oz AGE(3 coins). Then I decided to do grade ASE&#039;s - we kept talking coins for about another year to year and a half.&nbsp; During that year or so we were convinced that we could never collect older series of coins. My father has an obsession with MS graded coins, not me.&nbsp; Well my father announced he was going to do morgans and I was going to do shield nickels and IHC&#039;s - I did not need the key dates in my mind for either series. I still remember the trip to the second coin shop(the one I never use) to look for morgans and shield nickels. In 2005 I joined this forum(just lurked for a few months, before posting).&nbsp; The had my first DDO shield nickel sitting next to a 1798 AG coin for $90 and I bought it for 75$. I was now hooked and did not know it.&nbsp; I wanted older coins in that price range - but my main shop had the below coin. I got some AG low 1800&#039;s DB cents and I must have looked at this coin for a month - did not really know about varieties yet - and bought it.&nbsp; I am not sorry I bought the coin(paid more for it than the 1793 I just posted) - that was the nail in the coffin.&nbsp; Then this site taught me about varieties(other than red-book) and I bought several large cent books.&nbsp; I think when I first started I posted one coin on here that was trashed(still using a scanner then) - but it did not discourage me. It is probably the only large cent purchase I regret making now(and the only one I ever sold) - there have been 3 or 4 bad ones, but this was the worst. So you can probably look at my large cent posts over the years to see how I have grown as a collector(not all are posted). No I don&#039;t need high grade coins to make me happy and my little dansco album does have 2 or 3 I will replace with different varieties at the right time.&nbsp; At this point I can not imagine not collecting Bust coinage. Plus somewhere along the line I decided I needed the key dates(shield, IHC&#039;s and large cents if possible) - so know I have them all except 1793 chain, 1793 Liberty cap, 1799 and 1804 Bust cents and the 1877 proof shield nickel. It has been an enjoyable 4 or 5 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb15/coinmarks/?action=view&amp;current=1797-S131-O-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb15/coinmarks/?action=view&amp;current=1797-S131-O-1.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb15/coinmarks/th_1797-S131-O-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a><a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb15/coinmarks/?action=view&amp;current=1797-S131-R-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb15/coinmarks/?action=view&amp;current=1797-S131-R-1.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb15/coinmarks/th_1797-S131-R-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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