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Do You Still Have The First Coin That You Ever Collected?

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 Posted 09/15/2013  4:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add austrokiwi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It wasn't a coin it was a 12 oz AMC silver superman medal
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 Posted 09/16/2013  06:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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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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 Posted 09/16/2013  07:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add thai-vic to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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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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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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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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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