Any Other Coin Collectors?

[SW MP15]

I Love pre civil war US coins. Half cents, half dimes, dimes, 3 cent nickels, 2 cent pennies Seated Liberty Silver Dollars, seated half dollars, seated quarter dollars ETC. Just to think and imagine a civil war soldier may have had it in his pocket upon his death.

And I LOVE LOVE Morgan Carson City Silver Dollars! Just think if they could talk, about their history in the old west and being on a poker table. And how many shots of rot gut Wiskey they would have bought in a old western saloon? I also collect a few early gold coins and most any years of pre 1922 silver dollars.

I never cared for US paper money? I just Love the look and feel of a stack US Silver Dollare!

 

[Huskerguy]

I always wanted to learn more about old coins, silver in particular but with my other hobbies, jobs that took too much time and no extra money I just never got around to it. I occasionally go to a show and see tables of coins and look but have no idea what I am looking at so I walk by, sometimes have a short discussion.

Around here, the territorial paper money is a hot item. Can't believe what that stuff goes for.

If there is something still affordable and available I would do some research but I didn't grow up learning about coins. I would love to see your collection.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Just dipped my toes in the water and bought some 1/2 oz spouse coins.

 

[hoc9sw]

Been collecting since I was 5 or 6. I could find buffalo nickels, pre-mercury dimes, pre-liberty quarters, V-nickels, Indian-head pennies in quantities. Sold a lot to pay college bills. Traded a lot of scrap silver coins for gold when silver went to the stars. Sold the gold to pay college bills.

Anyone seeing a pattern there?

I still have a 2c piece from my gg-grandfather. When I traveled a lot, I tried to bring home something very old from each country, even if not exactly valuable. Didn't want to have to sell them to pay bills.

 

[chud333]

I have collected Morgan and Peace dollars for awhile now.
Love those big old silver cartwheels.
Still carry around an 1878 Morgan (well used) in my pocket
every day. It's fun to show it to folks who didn't even know
they existed. The higher grade coins have gotten too rich
for my blood these days. Hasn't everything ??


Chuck

 

[pj carby]

Really not a coin collector but....

I started buying old copper U.S. large cents a couple of years ago after looking up what a large cent was. Didn't know. Now I find interesting old copper pennies and cents (from the 19th century mostly) and have accumulated a small hoard. I also found Great Britain , France, Canada, and other copper coins to be equally interesting. The older the better.

 

[model70hunter]

Started to when I was 12, too many irons in my prepubescent life.

Farm chores, Baseball, football, horses, fishing, hunting, shooting, homework, Paladin, Gunsmoke, Rawhide and a few other westerns.

Then Ma this early lights out thing cause she had to get up early. I noticed the same thing early on in the military.

I do have several sets of Lincoln pennies, the rare and not often seen state quarters set, joke. I did have a set of most of the pre wheat pennies, it went missing during the divorce.

I have an 1854 half and some silver, a few 1904 nickles and it is totally unorganized. right now they are safe queens.

I now wish I would have given it more attention when younger. I had a half a jar of silver coins from metal detecting. I sold it at 18 times face value, I was not smart enough to take the profits and go buy gold.

 

[bushmaster1313]

I have one of these, I can read the letters identifying the face as belonging to Antiochus IV Epiphanus, but mine is not in museum condition.

My coin is a tetradrachum. Antiochus IV ruled the Selucid Empire about 2200 years ago

 

[Duke44]

I've collected since I was 9 or 10. My grandpa and uncle were big into it and helped me get started. Little bit of everything now. Tons of wheats and buffalos, naturally, when you start at age 10 they are the affordable choice. I remember spending $20 on a semi-key Morgan dollar when I was about 12 and thinking I was now a heavy hitter in the coin collecting field!

 

[msinc]

I am not really a collector, but when my two kids were born all the relatives started giving them coins that they had saved. None of them are collectors either, they just had a little insight to hang on to coins that they thought were valuable. Now, I have quite a collection going on that the kids will have someday. I have added to it when the right deal came along.
I have an 1861 half dime and also one Carson City silver dollar. But the most interesting one to me is a 1944 half dollar that was in an old metal box along with two purple heart medals. It was hidden in an old house we bought and the grandson told me that the medals and the coin belonged to a soldier that was his uncle by marriage. The coin was in his pocket when he was wounded at Normandy on June 6th. That accounted for the one purple heart. He was killed in Korea in 1951, which was the second one. I asked the kid if he wanted the medals and coin and he was not interested.

 

[STCM(SW)]

Lots of Morgan silver dollars and other silver US coins in the safe, some gold Indian $5 and Double Eagles all guarded by many S&W revolver's!

 

[charlie sherrill]

You can't have too much silver. Gold is mostly out of my league but I will buy silver when it is close to whatever bullion is selling for. The older silver coins are not .999 silver so I take that into account when I buy some. I picked up 19 peace dollars and 36 barber halves last Saturday. I don't buy for rare dates, just silver content, and if I do luck up on a rare one that's icing on the cake. There's always a person or two who just wants to get rid of something at a coin show for a decent price. That's the kind of stuff I look for. If the economy ever goes south you will always be able to spend silver and gold. They will always be worth something. Silver seems to be going up a little. My brother bought 20 .999 silver dollars a couple of months ago and they're already worth more thann he paid for them. That could change in an instant. I don't care, if that happens they'll go back up one day.

 

[Texas Star]

Just dipped my toes in the water and bought some 1/2 oz spouse coins.

Are those the ones that when you bring them home, your spouse wants them? That seems to cover most coins.

 

[rufgr]

I collected coins as a boy in the 1950s. As I recall it was pretty easy to get a full set of Jeffersons and Franklins and I wound up with a couple of complete sets of each. The set I tried very hard to complete was Walking Liberty halves but I came up short 4 or 5 coins. I don't recall the exact dates but I know 2 of them were the 1921P and D. After I got out of college I purchased the coins I was missing to complete the set.

A friend of mine had a complete set of Walkers before we started high school and claimed to have got them all out of circulation.

I completely lost interest after the silver left our coins.

 

[sheepdawg]

I have an 1851 silver three cent piece. It's the smallest coin ever produced by the U.S. mint. They were replaced by the larger nickel three cent piece because people lost them too much. Did a lot of collecting as a kid.

 

[JohnK]

I worked in Yellowstone park, in 1961, right out of high school.

They paid us in uncirculated silver dollars. Durn, a pocketful of those, made you feel rich.

Dad was a coin collector of sorts, so he had me send them to him, in exchange for paper money.

Don't remember what type of coin they were, and they walked off somewhere, after he died.