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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insomniac, post: 789882, member: 21995&quot;]My start came very slowly over the years. It began with a set of 1923 peace dollars my father inherited when I was six or so; they were framed, and once he received them, they hung in our&nbsp; hallway, and naturally I began to ask questions. At that point, I was directed to my uncle, who had a collection of his own. He showed me coins he knew I would find interesting, including a 1943 steel cent, which would continue to fascinate me over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>My childhood curiosity naturally moved on to other things, but my father began to collect state quarter proof sets, one each for my siblings and I, when the program started. I was eleven at the time. I continued to see interesting coins, as the county fair often featured various 4-H contests, and coin collections were featured as a category to be judged many years, but I never took the time to learn more about how or where to start collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I finally started collecting in November 2009, at the age of 22. My girlfriend talked me into going to the antique mall in our little, college town. I didn&#039;t see much that piqued my interest, but I was surprised to see coins there. I spent an hour or two browsing through them, and found several steel cents, long the object of my fascination. I bought two in extremely good condition, one for me and one for my girlfriend, and ever since, I have been visiting them every week or two, and making acquisitions, as well as searching rolls. It&#039;s only been a few months, but the fever of collecting has firmly taken hold in me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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