I have been selling old coins on the auction sites for year and have been able to put myself through college that way. In fact, I just recently started helping out some friends and selling coins for them too. I take just ten percent of whatever they make but I handle the listings, and also the shipping and handling.

I guess that I am not the only person here on campus that had a hobby of collecting coins when I was a kid. I would have never started, had my grandfather not given me a few rare coins to get me going. I will never be selling old coins from my grandfather; I only sell coins that I found myself.

I hope to pass along the coins from my grandfather to my grandchildren someday. Then if they want to start collecting and selling coins when they get to college it will be their choice. I will tell them my story and how I did not have to borrow money from the government or my parents and I paid for college all by myself. I would hope that they might be inspired to at least add to their collection that I give them, even if they do not go to the extremes that I did.