What made you start collecting coins?

Get outta here!! Yes, it was Newsday!! I had 90 papers. I almost did the LI Press. Glad I didn't!

 

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Yeah, the LI Press was a close competitor but Newsday gave out awards for getting new subscribers. I remember going to the movies on their dime....Battle of the Bulge and Cheyenne Autumn.

 

No, I do not collect any of their contemporary medals. I do like their almost completely unknown (outside of Korea) medals they made in the 1970s and 1980s. The jump came from the time I had spent in Korea for about three years working. The Lincolns made me wonder about Korean coins, the key dates, etc. I noticed that there is almost zero information in the English language about a lot of Korean-releated topics, coins being one of them. That's when I started working on researching these coins, too.

 

Mine was the same coin. My mother had a VG 1944, (her birthyear), in an old plastic bank. At the age of 3 I learned how to open it, and would look at this coin almost every day. When she passed away, that is all I wanted, that little plastic bank and that half dollar.

I now own BU WL rolls, probably 1000 junk silver WL halves, but would trade all of them for that crummy VG coin of hers if I had to.