Ætheling Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 have you been collecting coins? I started in 1990, so this year is my 15th anniversary in coin collecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Hum... I started around the same time too... but I guess around 10 years for me. Although I have been more seriously active for the last 5 years or so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Hum... I started around the same time too... but I guess around 10 years for me. Although I have been more seriously active for the last 5 years or so I think out of all those years 1996-2000 was my quiet period, 1998 particularly so. But then i repicked up the hobby in late 1999 (i had been buying in the late 90s but it was only every 6 or 7 months). Then in 2000 i suddenly went into explosion mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ageka Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 I started 1959 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch91 Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 I got my first coins December 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 I started 1959 Same year as GD if i recall correctly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16d Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 since 1964, sorting bags of cents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbycoin Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 My Wonderful Grandma started my collection before I was even born (Uncirc and proof mint sets dating back to the 60s). I started activly collecting and buying coins on Jan 26th 2005 becasue I purchased a "Off Set Lincoln Memorial Penny" for WAY! to much and told myself I would never let that happen again so I started teaching myself about coins... The rest is history. -Bobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggit Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Actively for about the last 6 months, have had coins stashed away for approx. 20 years but didn't have the interest before. That has changed and now I feel rather obsessed with collecting. Hmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 I started my first actual collection in Oct 1954 for my birthday. Prior to that I helped my mother with her collection and my older brother with his (he was always delighted -- NOT!). My first official coin was a Canadian Large Cent. I don't remember the year. Since my mother collected everything and my older brother collected US Coins and Stamps, I had to choose something else. Coins = Canada - cheap and readily available. When I did stamps, I started with Ghana at the end of 1957 - their year of independence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 On and off since I was a kid. My Dad introduced collecting to me when I was young. I kind of got away from it some after he died. Then went active again in the early 90's then went dormant again. Been seriously active again since last summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abish Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 A couple years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50cents Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 July 1964 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinjoe2006 Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 My mom was collecting for me ever since I was born, in 1988. But I have been collecting since I was about 9, 1997. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Several years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corina Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 In 1992 I Started My Coin Collection With Some Coins I had Gotten On My First Trip Overseas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whohah Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Since 1958. I got interested in the 'new' Lincoln Memorial reverse for the cent. I was 10 and, through stamp collecting, was watching for the commemorative stamps coming out for Lincoln's 150th anniversary of birth. Some article [probably in the Dallas Morning News] mentioned the change for the cent and I got interested. What really hooked me was when my best friend's dad [a long time nummismatist] took a look at my family's 'heirloom' coin. Ya' know, every family has at least one. It may be from Gran'pa's world tour courtesy Uncle Sam's disagreement with Adolph, Benito and Hirohito in the early 1940's, or Dad's visit to SE Asia in the '60's and '70's in the attempt to make the world safe for dominos. Or whatever... Our family's coin was one of Gran'ma's dollars which survived a house fire in 1918. She had sold the eggs that day and the money was in her dresser. After the fire, they sifted the ashes and found the dollars and never spent them. In the early 1950's, Gran'ma and Gran'pa decided to give one to each of their children. As it turned out, my dad got the 1889-CC. And now you know the '...rest of the story...' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzcollektor Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Whohah Wrote: "Since 1958. I got interested in the 'new' Lincoln Memorial reverse for the cent. I was 10" I was 5 in 1959, when each one of us got a shiny new memorial cent from our kindergarten teacher. Even at age 5, it intrigued me that there could be "different" money. Dimes with the lady on it (mercs) and dimes with the man on it (roosies). Along about 1962, I got my first Morgan dollar from the bank. After a few Morgans from the bank (at the rate of one every month or two) I got my first Redbook. Been hooked ever since. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan769 Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 First started when I was 7 or 8(1973) lasted a couple years, then took 20 years off and got back into it in 1998. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stujoe Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I was introduced to and started to get interested in coins when I was about 10. So that would be 29 years. However, I consider myself having become 'very serious' about coins around 6 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labmom Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I was introduced to the wonderful world of coin collecting back in 1999 by my father-in-law. So it is all his fault that I have so many coins and no money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jody526 Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I started my own collection in 1966. Some nice folks were kind enough to give a kid a few interesting coins. The seed they planted took root, and now, nearly 40 years later, I enjoy the hobby as much, or more, than ever. The internet has allowed me to communicate with other collectors. Prior to our getting a computer, I had never talked to another serious coin collector. It's definately one of my favorite aspects of the hobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMcDoo Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I got my first banknote from a junk box when I was just six years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okrecer03 Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Started 1966, at age 6....my dad bought me my first IHC 1902, at a coin show...shortly after, at age 6-7, I figured there was something big gonna happen with the change to 'clad' coins, so I started hoarding all the silver coins I could get ( not much for a 7 year-old, but a great idea )..still have all those. Collected into jr & high school... Lost interest in college & Medical school, But got back into it with a vengance 3-4 years ago....looked back in some old coin mags & recalled wishing I had a coin from the 1700's, but thought that is only fantasy......Got me a nice 1798 large cent couple yrs ago....ouch!...the bug just bit again & now I am hopelessly incurable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 I believe it was summer 1969. With lots of "slow" periods when almost all the coin I had went to buy diapers and formula. But I never dug into "The collection", just didn't add much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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