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Canada
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Did you find it in circulation? Wikipedia has an anecdote about someone putting together a little set of 1, 2, 3, 5 kopeks with the old Пролетарии все. стран, соединяйтесь! slogan on them from circulation in the 50s or 60s.
I can't remember the first coin I ever found, because I got into it when I was pretty young (about 7!). I remember being very impressed by my father's collection, which had been collected from circulation in the mid-late 70s. He had filled three rolls with 1973 Mountie quarters, found three silver dollars, plenty of silver from the Centennial or earlier (I recently noticed that while all Canadian denominations were altered for 1867-1967, all larger Soviet denominations were altered for 1917-1967, which is an interesting coincidence... the Canadian Golden Jubilee wasn't observed thanks to WWI, so we overcompensated for the 1927 Diamond Jubilee.), and a couple KGV coins. However, I don't remember the first coin that got me actually started.
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United States
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I'm sad to say that I do not, but it was also not by choice.
When I was a lot younger, my great grandmother showed me a huge jar of old wheat cents she had been saving since the 60s, and she gave one of them to me. I then lost it somewhere in her yard but was too ashamed to tell her what happened to it..
She passed away several years ago, but now my family lives in her house and the part of the yard I lost it in is still untouched, I got a metal detector and, once all the junk metal on the surface is removed, I plan to reacquire that lost sentimental treasure.
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Canada
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I heard a story about a little boy who received a stack of silver dollars as a gift in the 60s. He decided to play "treasure hunt" with them in the garden, and... they're buried there to this day!!
I have the house's address, but I don't know if the current owners would appreciate my request.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mine is a 1919 Wheat cent, and it holds a special place in my collection, in its own 2X2 even. |
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 United States
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I have no clue which coin was 'first' but without a doubt it was a Lincoln Wheat cent of some 1950's date or other. My brother and I both had cigar boxes half full of those iconic coppers, and one day after returning from an out of town business trip, dad forever conjoined us to the collecting Universe by gifting us each a set of those ubiquitous blue Whitman folders that begat so many childhood penny hunts. From there it was on to nickels, dimes... whatever our modest allowances plus money earned from shoveling snow off sidewalks in winter would enable us to afford. I still have the pennies; they have migrated to albums, the one sided folders long since discarded. Unfortunately everything larger than a nickel vanished in my later teenage years due to a theft perpetrated by school 'chums' I mistakenly allowed to view the collection. C'est la vie. |
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Canada
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Quote:Worn out Buffalo nickel found in a ditch after a storm in 1953. It probably fell from Heaven... |
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United States
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That would be pennies.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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United States
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Mine was a RB 1889 Indian Head cent. I found it on the ground of a Post Office when I was about 1 and 1/2. And I still have it! |
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It wasn't a coin it was a 12 oz AMC silver superman medal
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Russian Federation
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Did you find it in circulation? Wikipedia has an anecdote about someone putting together a little set of 1, 2, 3, 5 kopeks with the old Пролетарии все. стран, соединяйтесь! slogan on them from circulation in the 50s or 60s. Well, I can believe that. These small-denomination coins were explicitly excluded (i.e. allowed to circulate) in all the monetary reforms between 1935 and 1961, so surely there was some stuff from the 1920s still around in the 1960s. In fact, a bucket of Soviet change (likely mainly collected in the mid-1980s) that I got from my great-aunt around 2010 had a coin from 1926! I've since lost that one, unfortunately (and almost all of my other pre-1961 coppers, which included several more coins from that bucket are now in my dad's collection). As for the 1932 coin, to the best of my knowledge it stopped being legal currency sometime between 1935 and 1961; while I wasn't even born until 1992, well after any Soviet coinage could've circulated  I found it as a dirty black thing on some table, where it was left by my dad after the botched cleaning attempt (though I wasn't aware of that part of the story until more than ten years later). The oldest coin that I had seen in current Russian circulation was dated 1972, and it wasn't even Russian (it was an Italian 20 lira that someone probably tried to pass as 10 rubles - some cashier showed it to me when I tried to ask for unusual money); the oldest such Russian coin was from 1991 (the Soviet Bank issue 10 kopek, which is relatively similar to the modern design). |
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Thailand
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Couldn't say for sure but more than likely not. I started my collecting as my mother did...basically just chucked any foreign coins in a tin.
When the serious collecting started they were sorted but would be replaced by better examples as they came along.
Had to get rid of about 80-100 kilos of 'spares' about 10 years ago (to a charity) but my collection proper remains intact.
By the way, I've enjoyed reading all your experiences.
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United States
543 Posts |
It was a 1909 penny I received in change. It got me into the game. 1909 was the year my paternal grandfather was born. This January, it came full circle when I found one better in circulation at my work, a 1909-VDB.
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New Member
United States
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During the mid-1960's when I was a little boy, every time I lost a tooth, my gift was a new silver-clad Kennedy half dollar. I still own every one of those halves and many more from circulation, the last silver coin in the USA that still circulated in those times. When my grandmother started me on the road to real coin collecting in 1969, she gave to me an 1859 Indian Head cent, an 1865 two-cent piece, a 1945 Mercury dime, a 1942S Washington quarter, a 1958 and 1960D Franklin half, a 1921 Morgan dollar and a 1924 Peace dollar. I still own all these coins more than 45 years later. |
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United States
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My first coins was a few world coins I got for a merit badge in scouts. I voted yes because even though they are not worth anything, they mean too much to me and I would never sell them.
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