I used to collect fossils, I haven't got any in a good few years though.
Where I live is lousy for finding any sort of precious stone or fossil apart from flint and the odd pebble :l
We used to go to the seaside quite a lot and I got most of my collection from either the South of France, Lyme Regis or Fossil Shops in Cornwall. My best looking on is a fully intact Trilobite but they aren't too rare, I have a few Sharks Teeth which are pretty nifty and half a fossilized anemone and my personal favourite is a beautiful sandy coloured rock covered in fossilized tube worms which just looks awesome :D
I might get back into collecting if I ever go near a coastline again, but living smack bang in the middle of the UK is a crappy place to look for them.
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Early Trilobites are one of the few things that can be found up here in Northern MN. About 100 miles South of me is where they start to find a lot of shark teeth. It would be pretty neat to find either. It's interesting to me to find sea creature fossils in the middle of a dry land continent. Gives you you're own personal proof of plate tectonics and the age of the Earth.