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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antlrcolectr, post: 1346535, member: 35081&quot;]I&#039;m 43 and I would say that I started back in the early 70&#039;s. Mom had a cardboard box in the basement next to the wash machine that had about 30 of those little baby food jars in it - and every jar had a year labeled on the lid. As she would clean out pockets before doing laundry, she had a crock on the countertop for common change out of the pockets, and whenever she found an old coin, it went into the babyfood jar that had a cooresponding date on the lid. At 6 years old I thought that was cool. Back then I can remember still getting Mercury dimes, Wheaties, Buffalo nickels, and silver quarters for change pretty often too, and I thought they were neat so I just held on to them. My brother has the old blue Whitman coin books, and I was always snooping through them, so mom bought me a set of them too, more to humor me than anything I guess. But it turns out mom was a second generation hoarder of old coins because my her mom did the same thing. </p><p>As luck would have it - mom started working at a bank in 1983 or so and worked there for 18 years before retiring. So many more coins, silver certs, etc were put away. When my grandma passed away in &#039;97 a lot of her old coins came to me. But in 2004 my house was broken into and most of that hoard was stolen. I got most of my mint sets and silver proof sets back, but all the old coins, rolls of silver quarters, and rolls of barber and mercury dimes were gone for good. (Yes I&#039;ve since bought a nice 1100 lb fire safe and it&#039;s not going anywhere anytime soon) </p><p>Now that moms getting older she started handing down her treasures to me from the bank. Morgans, Peace&#039;s, Barbers, Silver Certs, $100 and $20 silver certs, and the most interesting one of all was a 1914D Wheat cent. </p><p>I collect about everything, since I&#039;m borderline ADD that works out good for me. If get bored with Mercury&#039;s, the Liberty nickels take their place... right now I&#039;m on a Indian Head cent kick. And I try to pick up one or two Morgans at every auction I go to. I have almost a complete sets of ALL the Whitman books, I almost have a complete set of Kennedy&#039;s(in P,D, &amp; S - BU) I have a complete set of Ike&#039;s, Mostly AU, but a couple are circulated. god the list goes on. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m working on a MS69 set of Silver Eagles... I need to fill in from 1998 back to 1986. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Should have started sooner on those....</p><p><br /></p><p>Send me your old coins you dont want please! LOL[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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