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Message:: [QUOTE="dreamer94, post: 322446, member: 6449"]I first got into coin collecting in the mid 1960's because a friend turned me on to it.  Pretty much everything I collected was out of circulation because I had no money to buy coins.  In about 1968 when it occurred to us that silver coins would soon disappear from circulation, I used to go to the school cafeteria cashier everyday and trade clad quarters and dimes for silver ones and I socked them away.  I lost interest after that for many years. In early 2006, my son was assigned a book for school, entitled "The Figure in the Shadows" that talked about a silver 3 cent piece that was on a keychain and was someone's good luck charm.  I remembered that I had a 3 cent silver piece (it was in poor condition without a readable date).  We went on ebay to look for one to buy him and found one immediately.  I noticed people buying and selling proof sets and collections of state quarters and suddenly realized what I had been missing all these years.  Fortunately, I can afford to buy coins now and have started to make up for lost time.  My original coin collection, which sat in a metal toolbox for 40 years is still there.  Not much of value, but I still have 3 rolls of silver quarters, 3 rolls of silver dimes and about 10 rolls of wheat cents (genuinely unsearched).[/QUOTE]