Earlier this year, my grandpa died too, so we went to his house for his funeral. We ended up finding one of my grandma's coin collections and we brought it back.
When we got back home, the coins were given to me, along with coins my parents had saved from when my dad went overseas for his business trips and when we went abroad on vacation (not often). My love for coin collecting was reawakened from when I was a child.
When I was little, I would "collect" coins, and subsequently spend them. I was a stupid kid.
When I grew up a little, I started liking the coins my dad brought back from overseas. I would also give my parents coins that I thought had value for collecting, and they would keep them in the lockable closet.
I still like overseas coins.
My grandma had a coin from 1877, and even she wasn't born back then (my grandpa was born in 1945, and she was younger). Since people were having kids so young then, it might even be from her great grandparents. This coin is at least 7 generations old!
According to this website, the coin is worth either $20 or $60.
After I got all those coins, I started collecting my own coins again - just those in circulation here in the US though. I have so far collected 43/56 statehood/US territories quarters, 9 presidential dollars, 9/56 national park quarters (still being issued), and a few miscellaneous nickels, dimes, and pennies. I even have a half dollar coin.
