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Message:: [QUOTE="NSP, post: 2192635, member: 74849"]A 1941-P wheat penny started it for me. Its reverse is actually my avatar picture, and it has a pretty good story attached to it. I think it was in 2002 when I was about 6, and my mom had taken me to a doctor appointment and we were sitting in the waiting room. There was one of those coin donation boxes where you put a coin in and it goes rolling around and I asked my mom for some change to put in it. One of the coins was the 1941 cent, which to me looked very weird and old. I excitedly showed the coin to my mom and she gave me a different one to throw in the box in its place. When we get to the exam room, I was still excited (since most 6 year olds are pretty excitable) and I tell the doctor about my find when she comes in. Her son happened to be a coin collector and she told me about the 1943 steel cents and said she'd mail one of her son's duplicates. Sure enough, the 1943 cent comes in the mail about a week later. This one was the second coin in my collection. Both have sentimental value far beyond their monetary value and still reside in the same page of my Dansco Lincoln album. At least five other pennies in that album have some pretty good stories attached to them, but the 1941 & 1943 trump all the others.[/QUOTE]