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Message:: [QUOTE="Bluegill, post: 37785, member: 1748"]That's a great story, and from a Louisvillian, too! I got my first coin when I was about 5 or 6. I was on the Belle of Louisville, a steamboat tourist attraction, with my mom and grandma. Some old guy said, "Hey, kid, c'mere," and he handed me a 1900 silver dollar. That dollar sat in a bowl in my parent's cupboard for quite a few years. Then my dad got me started on a LC album. I messed with that on and off for years, never seriously looking for stuff, just occasionally adding things from change (I CRINGE when I recall how, when I was about 10 or 11, I would use my fist or a shoe to hammer Lincoln cents into the album. But likely there was nothing valuable lost that way.) Anyway, I think that 1900 silver dollar, valued at about $10.00 I'd guess, is likely to be the most valuable coin in my collection. I have hundreds of world coins (Iceland, Ireland, and Australia are my favorites: I love the animals), and a scattering of U.S. coins. Very few of my coins are worth more than a quarter. And I have no complete sets of anything. I want to complete my LC set, but I have lots of fun just rummaging and reseaching things I can't identify.[/QUOTE]