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Plano, Texas, United States
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Pack-rat with a purpose!!!
I have been collecting and accumulating for a number of years. The topics are all over the place.
I started by collecting coins at the age of 7. My grandparents showed me a few beautiful coins (the first one I remember was a Standing Liberty Quarter...but Pop called it a Flying Eagle Quarter). I was given a Walking Liberty half dollar, a Standing Liberty Quarter, a couple Mercury dimes, a couple of Indian Head nickels (Buffalo nickels according to Pop) and a few Indian cents (referred to as Indian Head Pennies by Mimi). The collection started to grow with trips to the grocery store. Our local Winn Dixie grocery store had these new fangled machines that are today known as the common coin dispensers. I would look through the glass on the coin machines and see if any silver coins were in there. My mom would let me get up to a dollar of silver coins on each trip to the store. Then I hit the mother lode!!! My mom got a call from her favorite dress shop. They knew that I was into coin collecting and had a coin come across the counter that they thought that I might be interested in. They had received a Two and a half dollar Indian Head gold piece as a penny. The owner told my mother that she could get it for me, but had to pay the full $2.50. I now had copper, silver and gold in my collection. Growing up in the southern United States during the 1960s & 1970s also let me acquire quite a collection of Confederate paper money at very reasonable prices. I inherited my grandparents coin collections and have continued to add to it over the years.
Next came Baseball Cards starting when I was 8. Mimi worked at the local Rexall drug store. I would mow her yard and she gave me the option of paying me a dollor for cutting the grass or she would give me a box of baseball cards. My business accumen and knowledge gained by the wonderful age of eight told me that there were 24 packs of cards to a box and at a nickel a pack that was a doller twenty...twenty cents more than taking the cash...Plenty of baseball cards from my childhood from around age 8 through 12. Looks like my focus changed upon entering my teenage years.
Next came stamp collecting. My sister, who was 12 years older than me, had gone off to college and then got married. I went to visit her one week during the summer when I was 9 or 10. She took me to a super five and dime/department store named Ferd-Levy. I got my first stamp album and a bag of about 500 stamps on paper. She showed me how to soak the stamps and explained how each stamp told a story. She told me how you could learn the history of a place by paying attention to the commerative stamps. I worked one summer and bought my first set of Zeppelins (they were mint hinged and not very well centered).
High school and college was a big gap in my collecting (or accumulating). Classes, sports and girls (although not in that particular order) appeared to be my focus. I set up at a few coin shows and sold off most of my stamps while in college.
I have been collecting and accumulating for a number of years. The topics are all over the place.
I started by collecting coins at the age of 7. My grandparents showed me a few beautiful coins (the first one I remember was a Standing Liberty Quarter...but Pop called it a Flying Eagle Quarter). I was given a Walking Liberty half dollar, a Standing Liberty Quarter, a couple Mercury dimes, a couple of Indian Head nickels (Buffalo nickels according to Pop) and a few Indian cents (referred to as Indian Head Pennies by Mimi). The collection started to grow with trips to the grocery store. Our local Winn Dixie grocery store had these new fangled machines that are today known as the common coin dispensers. I would look through the glass on the coin machines and see if any silver coins were in there. My mom would let me get up to a dollar of silver coins on each trip to the store. Then I hit the mother lode!!! My mom got a call from her favorite dress shop. They knew that I was into coin collecting and had a coin come across the counter that they thought that I might be interested in. They had received a Two and a half dollar Indian Head gold piece as a penny. The owner told my mother that she could get it for me, but had to pay the full $2.50. I now had copper, silver and gold in my collection. Growing up in the southern United States during the 1960s & 1970s also let me acquire quite a collection of Confederate paper money at very reasonable prices. I inherited my grandparents coin collections and have continued to add to it over the years.
Next came Baseball Cards starting when I was 8. Mimi worked at the local Rexall drug store. I would mow her yard and she gave me the option of paying me a dollor for cutting the grass or she would give me a box of baseball cards. My business accumen and knowledge gained by the wonderful age of eight told me that there were 24 packs of cards to a box and at a nickel a pack that was a doller twenty...twenty cents more than taking the cash...Plenty of baseball cards from my childhood from around age 8 through 12. Looks like my focus changed upon entering my teenage years.
Next came stamp collecting. My sister, who was 12 years older than me, had gone off to college and then got married. I went to visit her one week during the summer when I was 9 or 10. She took me to a super five and dime/department store named Ferd-Levy. I got my first stamp album and a bag of about 500 stamps on paper. She showed me how to soak the stamps and explained how each stamp told a story. She told me how you could learn the history of a place by paying attention to the commerative stamps. I worked one summer and bought my first set of Zeppelins (they were mint hinged and not very well centered).
High school and college was a big gap in my collecting (or accumulating). Classes, sports and girls (although not in that particular order) appeared to be my focus. I set up at a few coin shows and sold off most of my stamps while in college.