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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tompkins316, post: 1829991, member: 28947&quot;]I don&#039;t have much left from the &quot;beginning&quot;. (The real beginning started only about 4 years ago, but there were a few times in my life that coins popped up without me taking much of a notice)</p><p><br /></p><p>The first was a Whitman folder set of wheaties I was given that my uncle had started when he was a kid in the 60s/70s. It was partially completed, and was completely foreign to me since I was still in elementary school. After a while I decided those pennies would do better for me in my piggy bank than in those folders and that piece of history was lost lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second was a Whitman State Quarter folder my parents got me randomly when I was going into middle school when that series was just starting up. These quarters would be worth something one day (so I was told) so I started putting that set together year by year by searching for the new state quarters every time I got change from any store. I got almost to the end and had almost all after a number of years, and once again figured those quarters would be better for me being spent on snacks at the corner store lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third time was the charm I guess as my real collecting began when I got my hands on the silver dollars I had inherited from my grandparents when they passed. A 1923 Peace dollar and 1902 Morgan dollar. I really got into the hobby for about a year and ran into some hard times financially and sold off almost my entire collection, and dropped out of collecting for two years. But I never got rid of those silver dollars, the &quot;family heir loom&quot; lol. It was just recently that I came across them again and they were the main reason the spark for collecting got reignited again. Now I&#039;m back in the hunt to get a real collection going again...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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