At what age did you start your collection. I was 7-8 when I fell in love with coins. I am wondering when did other people start

Well I'm 13 now, just staring to really fall in love...I was setting aside some old, cool currency from...forever? I honestly can't remember when I said "Hey, this is cool, I'm gonna keep it!".
I voted 10-15
Cool thread!

About 2.5 accd to family.

Does monopoly money count??? Just joking. I was about 12 when my grandparents got me started with a few morgan dollars.

Not that I'm old or anything but when I started the Mint came out with a new type of Lincoln Cent. It was a shiny, silver colored cent made of steel and covered with Zinc. For those that don't know that was in 1943.

When I had my first paper route, which meant my first regular amount of discretionary income.

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I was about 13 when I got interested, my nan had died, aged 96, and when my dad was clearing out her house found this tin with uncirculated £2 coins (pre 1997), 25p Crowns & 5/- Crowns along with a few 1994 WWII 50p's

I had a few George VI shillings/Florins when I was younger but that was when they were still running in tandem with the 5p/10p coins of the day. Unfortunately although interested in them I was too young to understand so many went back to the cornershop owner

I started around 9 or so when my Grandpa was into coins heavily. With sports and everything (plus him retiring and starting a business) we just didn't have any time.

It took 10 years until I got back into the hobby.

I was 9 or 10 when I started collecting 1 cent coins by date. The 1 cent coins were the only denomination I could afford "collecting" instead of saving/spending. Later, when I had almost all circulating years, I moved to 5 cent coins (stuivers) and later also 10 cent coins (dubbeltjes).

Then coin collecting started hybernating for about 10 years and I got back into collecting when it became clear that the euro would come and the gulden would disappear.

In the mean time, I alwyas kept change from foreign countries, when I had visited them.

This is how my two different collections started : dutch coins by denomination and year and foreign coins of countries I have visited by type.

I must admit I was a late starter. I was a in my early 20's.
Which all began when I found a Lincoln Wheat cent. At the time didn't know it's name.
To me it was a 'different' looking penny.

27. When my daughters were 1 and 2 respectively my wife put down her foot on my collection of Napoleonic era swords and guns. She suggested something small and blunt so I came home from a trip to Hawai'i with this.

When I was a kid I collected pennies, nickels and dimes until my sisters decided to spend them...

I was about 8, which makes this my 16th year of collecting today.

I didn't seriously get into it until I was about 14 though.

And I didn't spend everything I make on it until I was 19, lol. Does that count? Haha, I still say 8 though, just because my grandma gave me some barber coinage she saved from when she was my age (at the time), and it had me hooked. Oddly enough I never purchased a barber coin until the mid 90's lol.

I was 11. Looks like most people start early.

I was 14 when I got my first coins from my grandma. Some commemoratives from Belgium (250 francs 1976 and 500 francs 1980). After that, I bought my first coin on a fleamarket in Brussels (Leopold II 5 Francs 1873). Short after that I started going through the change, and hoarded 50 centimes (type with Minor 1952-2001). I put them in little boxes, by year and language, and couldn't find some years in circulation. Later that year, I bought my very first catalogue (Morin 1996 - Belgian coins), and then noticed that the years I hadn't found up untill then, simply didn't excist

I felt stupid and smart at the same time.

It all snowballed since then...

Jos