Do You Still Have The First Coin You Got As A Collector?

I remember as a 8 year old going to my friends house and always looking at his dad's coin collection. I was always so fascinated by them.

Fun fact: I was 8 at the time and didn't know anything about coin and I opened his 1 oz Gold panda air sealed case and started flipping it around like it was nothing.

By the time I was 9 years old I decided it was a time to start my own collection, So I did some research and found a store in my city and I went. I was looking at all the coins in amazement with how much they costed and I remember not having a clue what anything was worth or what it was.

But after looking through the "1$ bin" For about 10 minutes I found a coin that said napoleon III on it. This at the time was the only coin I had any possible knowledge about simply because I recognized the name and I went and told my dad what I found and I ended up purchasing what led to the first coin of my collection and a beginning of a great journey .

The coin is a 10 Centimes (france) 1854

(wish I could upload a pic but its not letting me, I don't know why)

@jbuck

I used the optimizer, And the photo ended up being 97kb and .PNG and the name of the file was "swoosh"

I have used the optimizer before, but it didn't want to work yesterday :/

No. When I first started I wasn't sure what I wanted to collect. And coins I did buy were not of the quality I aim for nowadays. So my first selection have long gone, sold to finance other purchases.

But I don't miss them. I have a collection I am happy with. OK, some coins I might upgrade in due course. They will go to other collectors and hopefully be enjoyed by them. And coins that have belonged to earlier collections will come to me. That way the hobby will carry on.

I started early:

What really set it off for me was discovering each country in the Eurozone minted their own coins while I was holidaying in France, and finding a shiny, fat, GORGEOUS French 2€. Though after hanging out in my wallet for two months it's fairly beaten up now...

I don't remember my first coin exactly. My interest was first sparked when I was a kid, when my dad would give us each an Eisenhower dollar for our weekly allowance (he called them "silver dollars", and the word has stuck with me). They would then promptly be spent on candy, gum, and soda at the town grocery store, and as a result, I don't have any of these first Ikes that I was given.

I started taking more of an interest in collecting coins as a 9 year old, about 1992-93. I had several relatives who gave me many foreign coins. My first coins were modern British, Canadian, French, German, Italian, and Vatican City coins. I also had some WWII-era European coinage from when my grandfather was in the army, and was stationed in Germany in the late 50s. My first silver coin was an 1881 Haiti One Gourde, which I have no idea how my grandparents came to have it. I still have all of these coins, every one of them.

The first coin that I purchased was a 1961 proof Franklin half. Ever since I saw a picture in a coin magazine, I thought the Franklin half was the neatest looking coin I had ever seen, and so when I saw it at a flea market in the mid-90s for just a few bucks, I had to have it! And I still have it.

Many of the coins in my collection are foreign ones that I brought back from family holidays 20+ years ago. It's impossible to say which coin was the first one I got as a collector, because I've had a collection of coins for as long as I can remember.