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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1040191, member: 17919&quot;]My grandmother got me started back in the mid-&#039;60s. That was at the time when silver coinage was being replaced with clad, and she wanted me to understand the value of old coins. I think the first coins she gave me were some silver dimes, and she also gave me a booklet put out by Stack&#039;s that listed their buy prices at the time. She took me to the local department store and got me a Whitman Jefferson nickel folder for my birthday. For Christmas 1966, she gave me &quot;Let&#039;s Collect Coins&quot; by Ken Bresset (which I still have, by the way) and a 1967 Redbook. I also got a 1964 &quot;Last Year of Silver Coinage&quot; set from someone else. What a great Christmas that was! </p><p><br /></p><p>Later, Grandma took me to the house of a coin collector friend of hers, and he gave me a bunch of wheat pennies (which unfortunately disappeared, and I still don&#039;t know what happened to them). Around the same time, Grandma gave me a VDB, and a couple of Seated dimes (1840 and 1853-Arrows), as well as a couple of foreign coins (including a 1948 Swedish 10 ore, which is still in the original 2X2 cardboard holder I put it in back in 1967). There was also a guy in my neighborhood who was a coin collector, and he took me to my first coin show (where I bought a silver 3-cent piece with a hole in it for 50 cents. The 40% silver Kennedy half I used to buy the piece is probably worth more now than the 3-cent piece ever will be--LOL). I also received an occasional coin magazine (sometimes Coins, sometimes CoinAGE), and I hooked up with a gold coin dealer who had advertised in one of those publications. I was able to buy a sovereign from him for $12, just before sovereigns started taking off (rising to $20 or so by 1969).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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