Technically I've been CRH since 1961 when I started collecting with my dad. We would go to the banks and get rolls of various coins, or go to "gum-ball" vending machine vendors and buy bags of pennies. It was a lot more fun back then, found all sorts of old coins. We saved all wheaties of 1939 & earlier (of which I still have today). It's only too bad I didn't save all the silver back then. It was FUN. That all being said, then I could say I've been CRH for 53 years, however back then we did not call ourselves CRH's only "coin collectors".