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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;costello, post: 1624136, member: 42025&quot;]It&#039;s been a slow burn.&nbsp; I must&#039;ve been in 3rd grade when my grandfather noticed my love of comics.&nbsp; He tried to get me into stamp and coin collecting, but I was never really interested.&nbsp; Something about the coin shop he&#039;d take me to scared me.&nbsp; Friends at school would share a few coins, but I still could never get into it.&nbsp; I sadly remember the pennies he gave me as a present.&nbsp; I buried them in the backyard and pretended they were treasure, and then I dug them up and spent them on junk food at the grocery store.</p><p><br /></p><p>He willed me a part of his stamp collection and half of his coins.&nbsp; I sold the stamps for $250, which I now feel was a bad idea but there&#039;s nothing I can do about it, and while I was wavering back and forth about selling his coins, my son (3 at the time) jumped in and said he wanted to keep them.&nbsp; We&#039;ve been slowly collecting coins ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything my grandfather had was circulated and kept in an attic, so it&#039;s all probably considered junk bullion, but that&#039;s okay.&nbsp; My son and I are basically collecting circulated coins until I gain enough knowledge to collect something older--probably mercury dimes, wheat pennies, and walking liberties.&nbsp; I&#039;m also waiting for the price of silver and gold to drop so I can buy a ton of bullion and hoard it away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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