Good afternoon.

I qualify, and to coin a phrase, note that I still have my play lunch money.

Those silver sixpences were like gold once upon a time.

Realising it's powerful pull and contemporary currency I had an early desire to collect as much of the stuff as to be neither needy nor greedy.

Then it was on to notaphily and ironing out my first full time paper money pay.

I was hooked on what the polymer provider could produce.

But enough is enough and I content myself these daze with on-line banking and wallowing in wall to wall wonder at my mcduckian moolah.

Precious metals form part of a diverse portfolio of assets and hobbies.

Enjoy.

Start a coin collector group.

Love it. I have often said we should have permitted the "South" to secede. Tongue in cheek of course as we abolitionists could not permit our unrecognized enslave citizens of the USA to continue to endure such atrocities. minor keepers.
I always check my coins & occasionally I come across some minor keepers. Oak leaf pennies. Occasional Mercury dimes. I save all nickels prior to the 60's. It is another display of my urge to collect things.

My father was a serious coin collector among other things when I was younger.

He was also a high/grade school athletic director which meant that for every football, basketball, whatever game he had to collect the gate receipts at the ends of the nights. It was amazing especially what the native Americans might bring in from the reservations to pay for watching a game. Some of my fondest memories were from Saturday mornings at the kitchen table pouring over gate monies looking for 'rare' coins to buy before we turned the money in.

Unfortunately we/he fell on hard times money wise about the time I entered high school so he sold almost all his collection. Several boxes of coin books disappeared.

He had complete sets of dimes, pennies and nickels back to the 30s.

Years later I gave him a Christmas present of an 1895 silver dollar that a friend in Phoenix found inside a wall when he was renovating his house.
It becomes part of your life.

None of our coins were 'new' condition. But most of them were 'good'. Ah, memories.

I live in SC and will happily gtfo, provided I'm compensated for my property and the general inconvenience of being forced to move and find another job. The secessionists are welcome to have the southern states. Best of luck to them after the blue state funding disappears.