Whats The Coolest Coin You Have Received/ Given As A Gift

@ grr601

That is a really cool idea! I'm sure they will love it. A gift like that can really light the coin collecting fire, so to speak. Sometimes it can be hard to get into coin collecting when you are younger and can only collect from circulation. It wasn't until my grandfather gave me his collection, did I truly start showing interest in coin collecting when I was younger. There wasn't anything rare in the collection I received but it was something Id never seen before at that time. Some circulated Mercury dimes, foreign coins, and Barber quarter, still have them all to this day.

@ davec13

Silver over candy? Yes please! Very cool ideas :) I can't even begin to say how excited I would have been to receive my first gold coin at a young age. I bought my first one at 25 and it set me back quite a bit XD

On a different coin forum a young kid of 13 said he never saw a 1943 Lincoln Cent. He said he lived in a farm land area so coin shows, coin stores, etc. are just not around. So I sent him 500 of them.

The coolest one I've received was an 1885 $5 gold coin. It was one that was given to my great grandma as an engagement gift back in the 1920's, and was never spent. Eventually it ended up with my dad before he gave it to me.

The coolest one I ever got was a big jar of about 10,000 wheat pennies from my Dad. It is what got me started on coin collecting at the age of 10 or 11. So it really wasn't one coin, but a big bucket of them.

Of course, as a kid, I cleaned them (ruined lots of teen S mint coins in the process), spent a few, eventually sold them when I gave up coin collecting and then wished I hadn't when I got interested again later.

I don't have them anymore, but they are the coolest because it was what started my on again off again (currently on again) love for collecting coins.

Two months ago my brother sent me an MS70 Silver Eagle for my birthday. He's in hospice care now, losing his battle with MS. That's my most special coin.