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United States
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I saved a few coins since childhood and never got rid of them. They weren't anything special but have been integrated into my collection since.
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United Kingdom
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I've just discovered this thread! When I was at Primary School, our teacher Mrs Davis told the class that some pennies had lighthouses on them and others didn't. Next time I had some pennies, I checked them - and found one that had both a lighthouse AND a ship! I'd never seen one like it before. I saved it, and then decided to try to get a complete date set of pennies! Here is that coin I put aside back in 1965 - it's only about VG, with a long scratch on the reverse, but for an 1874 penny in circulation in the mid-1960s it was an exceptionally good specimen! And it still occupies a place in my album.   Edited by NumisRob
09/12/2013 5:41 pm
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Nope. I sell coins to buy better ones, so the earliest are long gone.
The coin I've had longest I bought in 2004. I still have it, battered though it is, because it'll be difficult to replace. I've only seen 10 more since I got it and it was the cheapest so it'll do as a gap filler for now.
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United States
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yes, the first coin I ever collected came from my grandfather and it's an 1883-O Morgan dollar. When I was eight I thought I was a millionaire! :) |
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Russian Federation
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Well, technically, my "collecting" early on was finding bunches of (what I then thought to be) cool coins (mostly from our own country) randomly lying around at home. I've tried to keep most of these as long as possible, but 90% of them got lost anyway, and 90% of the rest was lost when we moved in 2006.
Then it was supplemented by finding similarly "cool" coins in circulation. I tended to lose (/mix/spend) any stashes of these relatively soon; the oldest surviving by now is, I think, from late 2004 (as in, these coins were put away from circulation in 2004).
That said, the first coin that I can remember putting away to my collection as a single coin (and not as part of a bunch) is still there in my collection... Soviet 20 kopek 1932. It has an awful black color, and it's covered in tiny caverns (both were apparently from a botched cleaning attempt by my dad, who was also a coin collector), but it's just about identifiable (even to my child self in late 1990s, who happened to recognize it from a photo of a similar coin in a mathematical book... long story), and of course its sentimental value is now huge (as it's essentially the only coin that I can be sure I owned reasonably continuously for at least ten years).
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United States
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Mine is an 1896 Morgan that my grandmother had placed in her bassinet upon her birth. It was a brand spanking new coin with her birth year and she kept wrapped in a soft cloth that she would pull out of her drawer and show me whenever I asked. She left it to me when she died.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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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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Pillar of the Community
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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