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 Posted: 11:25 pm

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Most people who have been collecting for any length of time started out collecting Lincoln Cents.  I started with a Blue Whitman 1941-1964 Lincoln folder in, you guessed it, 1964.  My brother gave it to me for Christmas and my love for coins has snowballed from there. 

Did anybody else start with the Lincoln cent?

 

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 Posted: 11:56 pm

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Hi there, and welcome aboard!  Yep yep, I remember begging my mom to get rolls of pennies for my dollars from the bank so I could spend hours sorting through them for wheat cents!  Found a lot!  Then it got SERIOUS when I bought one of those Whitman coin albums for Lincolns!

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Oh, I remember it well. The old blue Whitman folders are where I really started when I was about 8 years old. I started both folders with coins pulled out of circulation and managed to get about 85% complete that way. I ran across the old folders a few years back and noticed that all of the old UNC's I had put in from the early '50's onward had my lovely thumbprint etched into the obverse. ::ohno::
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Yup, that's how I started. :) I'm still working on mine, although I don't really remember exactly when I started, it was before '99 maybe in 96 or 97
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I am into coin collecting now, but I basically keep it to pocket change, and often I ask friends and family if I can look through their jars of coins.  It is quite weird, that I have probably received 100 or so wheat cents in change, on top of a few silver quarters and numberous silver dimes.  This is all change handed to me over the counter when I buy something.  Some people do not realise what they have in pocket change.  My mom being a cashier also helps with extras, every week she comes home with Kennedys and Ikes, silvers and wheats, and it just adds to what I have.

My dad also collected coins, he is now deceased, so I add to his collection I have when I get something, but I have numerous Whitman albums filled with the more modern coins, cents, nickels, dimes, and quarters.  To myself, since I do not really buy anything, nor do I "have" to have the best graded coin, it is a very inexpensive hobby to keep adding to.
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I started coin collecting last November and decided on a Lincoln Wheat registry set. I got registry fever and spent $30,000 in about six months.

I learned about the series as I went along, very dumb but I am a fast learner.

I also submitted alot of coin for slabbing to pcgs and that teaches you big time.

Now at the local coin shop people ask ME for my advice on coins, its been a wild ride indeed:help:
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Yes, I started with Lincolns back in 1964. I still haven't finished that set, but I've been adding to it--slowly but surely. It's mostly circ. coins that I've pulled from circulation. Many of the coins I've bought for it over the past seven years have been of similar quality. So it's pretty cheap mostly. I expect my next big purchase for it to be a 1931-S in EF.
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 Posted: 02:31 pm

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yep i started the same way, lol with the old blue folder, i did get over half done on my own, this was around 1963. then i remember we took a trip to my uncle house and he ask if i had my book, sure i did. this was a 1909 book, well he went into his bedroom and brote out a tackel box , open it and it was just filled with circulated wheats, LOL my eyes got so big. well he then toke my book and completely filled it. i was 8 at the time. now here the sad part . about a year later my brother and i needed some money to get some gum at the store. well you know what happen next. all gone.  what i would give for that book now, LOL

now i have got my lincolns all most finish. there in unc, i have collected all the way back to 1933 complate including small and large dates and proof. only need the 36,37,38,39 proof to finish that part of the proofs.  then on to the 09 to 17 . and of corce the two big one, 09vdb-S and the 55 ddo-oo1

now it to the part were they get up in the big dollar part. LOL 

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Yep, me too.

Filled up an Intercept Shield album from 1909 to current, branched out to other 'stuff' from there.

Started working on a U.S. Type Set in a Dansco 7070 but stalled out when i got to the things that just got too expensive to pursue :(

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