Daryl Conley is an amateur collector who began collecting as a child, over forty years ago. The primer to his collection was a 1910 Lincoln Head cent which his mother gave him as lunch money for school. Since then his collection has grown, through gifts from relatives, purchases of small collections, and estate and on-line auction purchases; but mostly from plain old, every day pocket change. This is the author's first book on collecting coins. His desire is to share his personal enjoyment and knowledge that he has acquired as a life-long collector of our nation's coins.