The start of a collection

A 1925 Stone Mountain half my dad gave me when I was a kid. I still have it.

 

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I have sent coins in that were really important to me. A waste of money to most folks but I wanted them in a nice safe holder.

 

Uncirculated from change? Doesn't mean they were circulated?

We (my son and I) nearly finished the state quarters from pocket change, but I decided to buy the last four we needed from a local coin store just to be able to say that we were done. We're working on the ATB album now.

I have acquired all of the non-key Washington quarters via eBay. I'm missing a few late "S" proof coins and the key dates and will have a complete run of Washington quarters through 1998. My younger son helps me when a new eBay purchase comes in; he decides whether a duplicate coin is an upgrade to what is already in the book, or whether it just goes into the duplicate tube.

My younger son has his own state quarters book that has just one slot per coin (rather than one per mint mark). Periodically he will raid the album to buy cookies or something at school. But I keep throwing state quarters into a bucket and at various times he'll go through and refill it.

I got interested in coins when I was a kid because my folks had a bunch of foreign coins that I liked to look through. When my older son was working on his Coin Collecting merit badge he was the only one to bring international coins to the workshop.

But to answer the original question, the coin that got me interested in coin collecting was a 1918 Lincoln cent that I got as part of my allowance. It was interesting to me that a coin could be that old and still be used in current times. I still have that coin in a Whitman folder.

 

I'm thinking about sending it to PCGS when I get a few more coins that I want to submit. How much would it cost to submit as an error? what grade do you think it would get?

 

My first coin experience that hooked me may have been a bit overwhelming I suppose. My grandmother collected coins for many years. When I was about 12 she gave them to me. There were five complete sets of silver Roosevelt dimes, Two sets of Mercury's, three sets of Franklin's, two sets of Walkers, and about 120 or so Morgans. There were a few odds and inds as well, such as 20 cent pieces and commems. So, I was off to a decent start right off the bat. Oddly enough, I've never had much interest in any of those sets, though I've kept them to keep it in the family. I'm more of a Large cent and Bust half guy, two types that were oddly enough not present in the collection I was given.

 

@coleguy it's probably because they're you're collection rather than something that belonged to someone else. You didn't get to experience the "three of the hunt" for the collections that were handed down to you.

 

Error submissions cost $55 plus shipping and the $8 handling fee. They take a month or more. I have a group of 5 errors at pcgs now...

 

So about $70 and 1 month of waiting?

 

I have not yet submitted any coins to get certified. Why does it take them so long to get the coin back to you? A month waiting time is something I'd expect from the US Mint not PCGS.

 

I remember reading that when I was just lurking aroun here. I'm with you though, thanks Whitman for not unplugging the 1913 spot.

 

I started in the '50s with the Lincoln Cents blue books. Also, my Dad had a few large cents, Indians and a 1846 CN Indian and a Flying Eagle. I talked the owners of a local bar and a couple stores to let me go through their cash registers as long as I replaced any I took out. I also talked one store owner to set aside and 1943 steel cents she got in. I have over 200 of them. Never bought many coins. Most came from the stores, my Dad's pocket change and a few relatives' penny jars. It was fun.