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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;debordj, post: 1040356, member: 23344&quot;]Well, I think I initially got into coins as a coping mechanism for grieving when my grandfather passed away in January.&nbsp; Now I really enjoy it and hooked for sure.&nbsp; When I was in college, he gave me $50 in SBAs that he was given as a present for 50 years of never having smoked.&nbsp; Well, I needed rent one month and found a guy that bought coins.&nbsp; He gave me $80 for them back in 1992.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t get hooked, but later on after I joined the Navy and was going to graduate school close to home, he showed me a velvet pouch that had a bunch of old coins.&nbsp; I looked them up online for some prices and think the pouch by my estimate was worth $600.&nbsp; Knowing what I know now, I think I overgraded, so they weren&#039;t worth that.&nbsp; Thought it was neat, but never got the collecting fever.&nbsp; Then, last Christmas, he knew he didn&#039;t have long and was very feeble.&nbsp; He said he wanted to give me some coins to keep for my sons and to send half to my neice and nephew in Japan (my brother is also in the Navy).&nbsp; Thought it was the velvet pouch.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t, it was coins that his brother had when he passed earlier in the year.&nbsp; Nothing great, JFKs, SBAs, and a bunch of IKEs, but we had a good time separating them and he thought they were worth their weight in gold.&nbsp; That was the last real time that I spent with Gramps.&nbsp; He died a few weeks later and I guess I started to use it as a coping time.&nbsp; Started looking at the coins, reading, found cointalk and then started to build birthyear sets for my sons...so that they would cherish them someday.&nbsp; Saw a thread on typesets here and bought an album and have been learning ever since.&nbsp; My typeset album has an IKE, a JFK and a SBA (filled S by the way) that my sons helped me pick for the album that we will never upgrade - the are only worth face in most cases but priceless to us.&nbsp; I keep a log of what the coins are, where I got them, and why we selected that year for the typset - for example the state quarter is an Ohio Proof since we are originally from Ohio.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a side note, that original velvet pouch that had some walkers and mercs and some seated liberties has either been snagged by someone in the family or never found.&nbsp; I have asked and the family members that helped clean the house for the auction &quot;never saw it&quot;.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t inherit anything other than a few guns that are family heirlooms, but would have liked to have some of those coins for my typeset to hand down.&nbsp; Someone has it or is going to find it someday in a drawer or box that they bought during the auction.&nbsp; But, doesn&#039;t matter at this point.&nbsp; That&#039;s my story!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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