Has anyone, especially Baby Boomers, ever wished they had a blog that took care of all their hobbies in one place? I hope this might be the one. We will start out with Coins. Then as we progress, perhaps we will expand into stamps,comic books,paper ephemera,vinyl and many other catagories. After all, we were the ultimate collectors.Working class or those fed on a silver spoon,we all seemed to have a much better work ehtic than the proceeding generations.There fore, if we had an allowance, we saved it to buy ourselves what we could,in this case coin collecting supplies,added to by our pocket change to fill the old blue Whitman folders we were so fond of at the start of our hobby collecting years.
My own start came by mistake at the age of 12. my grandmother gave me a 1923 Peace silver dollar as a gift for my birthday. I was amazed at the beauty of this coin and asked her if she had anymore similar coins. She said she did and proceeded to show me a plastic bank with a key lock that was a promotional item issued by The First Agricultural Bank of Great Barrington,Massachusetts. I asked as to how I might acqiure some more of these coins, included wheat pennies,Buffalo Nickels,Mercury dime,Standing Liberty quarters and Walking Liberty halves. I offered to exchange for my pocket change and she said yes, but under one condition (the old work ethic again).I would have to mow the lawn with her rickety old reel push mower,weed the flower beds and take out the trash. No problem,and I proceeded to do my chores and start a facinating hobby that would last the rest of my life.
This will be a forum for us to share similar stories,offer advice and help start off new collectors as well as refresh others and help out seasoned collectors. A bit of gossip would not hurt and we can help to dispell rumors and outright lies, myths, etc. Opinions are also welcome but this forum needs to be kept clean, respectful and just plain FUN! So let's have a go at it and see where this leads us.
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