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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LakeEffect, post: 4801877, member: 43201&quot;]I think we Boomers are too hard on the kids these days. I started collecting in the 1960&#039;s when I was 11 or 12 and my folks showed me a cigar box of circulated silver, buffalo nickels, and wheat cents they plucked from circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started sorting them by type, date, and mint mark, so, amused,&nbsp; they let me keep them. I bought a few Whitman folders at the LCS and the rest is history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back then, we searched pocket change for silver, war nickels, and wheat cents. We didn&#039;t know much but we kept learning. We dreamed of the elusive 16-D, 32-D or 55 double die which we never found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kids today search for errors in the same way. There&#039;s not much else to hunt for on a newbie&#039;s budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was lucky that the LCS owner&#039;s wife was sympathetic to kids like me coming to the shop on my bike to buy circulated dimes and quarters. I still have those low-priced pieces in my collection. Today I can afford a few nicer pieces but those XF-45 Mercury&#039;s are still special.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today&#039;s error hunters are a lot like me 50 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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