John Dobbs
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Minimalism and Numismatics
by Numinimist I started loving old coins when I was ten, after my grandma gave me a Morgan silver dollar and a couple Franklin halves, and my grandpa gave me a Whitman album to hold Lincoln cents minted since 1941. I picked through pennies over many months to fill all of the album's slots that I could, even finding some wheaties from the '10s, '20s, and '30s that I ended up putting in 2x2 cardboard holders. Until I went to college, I collected mostly average circulated coins and a few common-date marginally uncirculated (slider) coins that would not interest real collectors.
By John Dobbs3 years ago in Humans
A YOUNG NUMINIMIST'S DREAM
By Numinimist A family member or our can peers nudge us toward creating the vision for our future. As a young numismatist, or coin collector, with an abundance of time but little money to spend, my early collection was mainly pennies picked through pocket change. When my grandpa took me to my first coin show, I splurged on a $10 roll of circulated Buffalo nickels. My biggest pursuits were collecting Lincoln wheat cents and Buffalo nickels by date and mint mark.
By John Dobbs3 years ago in Motivation