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Message:: [QUOTE="Hommer, post: 2341551, member: 73266"]54, Born and raised in a small farming community. Knew everyone for many miles around and other than my dad who pulled coins from change,  only to spend most when times were tough, the only other person I knew who collected was the paper man, who gave me my first Peace Dollar.  My great grandparents owned a small grocery till they passed and I worked there some as a child. I got paid change and would ask for the silver ones because that's what my dad collected.  When 15, I went to work in the big grocery store in town. Though it was late 70's,  there was still alot of silver floating around.  I would get all I could, but gave half my pay to my parents and I was a teenager in love with every girl in town,  so that took most all of the rest.  Marriage, college, and kids, put a hold on any kind of collecting, other than bills, the negative kind. After a divorce and move in 2003, I got my childhood trunk in the move, I found my peanut cans full of silver in the bottom.  With the advent of the internet,  and more time on my hands,  I started researching what I had. Have since added alot to it.[/QUOTE]