BuffaloBoy
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Hello everybody, I am starting this thread to see how we got into this wonderful hobby? Everybody has a different story, some personal, some not.
I'll start off...
Way back then, I was around 5 years old. My father and I went to a chinese take out restaurant, I always stood on a chair to peek over the high counter to watch the chefs cook, all the fire was quite amusing, the people were always friendly to my family and I. The chair happened to be right over the cash register. The register was opened so I peeked in since the chefs were done their cooking. I noticed a "BEAVER NICKEL" referring to a Canadian Nickel... I must have yelled it to my father a little too loud, and the owner came over and gave me the nickel as well as a few other foreign coins they had in their drawer. I ended up with about 10 coins, a canadian quarter, a hong kong coin and some other asian coins. This got me HOOKED. I still go to this chinese restaurant to this day, all these years, the best food around.
I then showed my grandfather the coins, he then remembered he had a bunch of coins saved from when he was in the Phillipines in WW2, he gave them to me as well as his father's collection from Europe in WW1. This was passed down to me with a decent amount of silver coins which I had not realized the value until around 8 years old. I started CRH'ing since I was 8.
When I was 8, my father took me to the bank, I asked the teller if they had foreign coins, HA. they didn't, but I then asked for 5 rolls of pennies, my father bought them for me, i found 20 wheat pennies, and it all started from there...
Share your story!!
HH,
Buff
p.s. the buffalo nickel from my grandfather really sparked my interest in old american coins, thus my name on here, BuffaloBoy... When I was a boy, the buffalo nickel got me into collecting US coins.
I'll start off...
Way back then, I was around 5 years old. My father and I went to a chinese take out restaurant, I always stood on a chair to peek over the high counter to watch the chefs cook, all the fire was quite amusing, the people were always friendly to my family and I. The chair happened to be right over the cash register. The register was opened so I peeked in since the chefs were done their cooking. I noticed a "BEAVER NICKEL" referring to a Canadian Nickel... I must have yelled it to my father a little too loud, and the owner came over and gave me the nickel as well as a few other foreign coins they had in their drawer. I ended up with about 10 coins, a canadian quarter, a hong kong coin and some other asian coins. This got me HOOKED. I still go to this chinese restaurant to this day, all these years, the best food around.
I then showed my grandfather the coins, he then remembered he had a bunch of coins saved from when he was in the Phillipines in WW2, he gave them to me as well as his father's collection from Europe in WW1. This was passed down to me with a decent amount of silver coins which I had not realized the value until around 8 years old. I started CRH'ing since I was 8.
When I was 8, my father took me to the bank, I asked the teller if they had foreign coins, HA. they didn't, but I then asked for 5 rolls of pennies, my father bought them for me, i found 20 wheat pennies, and it all started from there...
Share your story!!
HH,
Buff
p.s. the buffalo nickel from my grandfather really sparked my interest in old american coins, thus my name on here, BuffaloBoy... When I was a boy, the buffalo nickel got me into collecting US coins.
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