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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 3234332, member: 17919&quot;]I was utterly fascinated with Mercury dimes starting when I was about 5 years old, when they were still circulating. A couple of years later, I think, Muriel Cigars had a TV commercial featuring Edie Adams singing &quot;Hey Big Spender&quot;. As she sang &quot;spend... a little <i>dime</i> with me,&quot; the scene showed someone flipping a &quot;Mercury dime&quot;. Well, the obverse was a Mercury dime, but the reverse was a Roosevelt dime!&nbsp; I think the video is still available on YouTube.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, my grandmother noticed my interest in coins, and she got me started as a collector. My first coin book was Let&#039;s Collect Coins by Ken Bressett, which I got as a Christmas present from her in 1966. Later, she gave me a price guide from Stack&#039;s (coins were REALLY cheap back then!), and would give me a few wheat cents or other unusual coins about once a week. Some time after that I started buying Indian Head pennies from a guy on my paper route, and attended my first coin club meeting, where I was shocked to see someone selling gold coins! Everyone had told me that gold coins were illegal, but the guy from my paper route, who had taken me to the meeting, assured me that they were perfectly legal. So I decided to buy gold coins when I could afford them, which was the next year, 1968.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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