What Hobbies did you have as a kid? What did you keep on doing? New ones started later on?

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10. I collected coins and still do

I collected coins and I would sometimes take my allowance to the bank and buy a couple rolls of pennies. This was back in the 60s and I'd go through them looking for the dates and mint marks I needed. I still have all those coins today and probably $30 in wrapped pennies. I also save silver nickles, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and silver dollars. In my teen, I go to a local coin dealer and search for any coins of interests. He had a bowl with a number of pennies from around 1815 - 1840 which would sell for about $2 each and guarantee there were some coins in the bowl worth $5 or more. I remember looking through them and had to decide which of two coins to buy. One was an older date but something told me coin condition was more important so I went with my hunch. Turned out the coin was worth $5. Whenever I get change from a purchase, I do a quick look at the coins to see if they are any interesting coins.

I might pull out my collection and go through them and look up their values online just to see what they're worth.