From Texas and 71 yrs. old. Been collecting on and off for over 55 years. Kinda started (1965) as a 15 yr old military brat overseas in Japan and on the air base BX cafeteria and banking office ran by the Japanese management, I was allowed to sort through the US coins and could swap out my current change for whatever I could afford. Primarily wheaties but sometimes early Kennedy half's that I would sell down town to a Japanese store for $3.00 and thought I was really smart. Maybe should have kept some in savings, but always wanting something for a kid.
Restarted collecting again back in the states about 20yrs old and had that collection stolen, restarted collecting again around 40 yrs old and had a forced sell the collection due economics.
About twenty years ago, I said I would not ever collect coins again, then eventually started stacking silver and a few pieces of gold and got heavily into metal detecting. That's my story.
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