What Are Your Earliest Memories/Experiences With Coins? - Page 3

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HondoB Bedrock of the Community United States 25224 Posts	Posted 05/04/2023 6:32 pm DiscoLover82, there are many young numismatists that participate here on the Forum. But the hobby needs more! PS - look up the song "Closet Disco Dancer" by The Red Elvises. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures Edited by HondoB 05/04/2023 6:33 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Dollar 1935 Valued Member Canada 321 Posts	Posted 05/04/2023 7:36 pm I found a weird coin in the dollar my grandmother gave me, turn out it was a silver 1962 10c (from Canada) and from that moment I was hooked ! I was maybe 8-9 years old ''Buy the very best, stretch to buy it. It means if you can't afford to buy it, buy it anyway." -Steven Duckor Edited by Dollar 1935 05/04/2023 7:47 pm Report this Post to the Staff
mike31093 Valued Member United States 354 Posts	Posted 09/08/2023 9:48 pm My memory of the following event is not very good. Some of the details are fleeting but I do remember generalities of it (somewhat). Maybe I remember it at all because it taught me to be skeptical. When in my early teens I happened to have found (somewhere) what I believed to be a valuable coin. How I came to believe that is not remembered because I was certainly not a coin collector. I was lucky to have any pocket change at all! It was just a penny. Well, not just any penny but one born in a special year with a specific parentage. I had in my possession a 1914 D. But to whom do I bring it so I can collect my new fortune? As chance would have it my barber was very interested in coins. How I came to that knowledge is lost to time. But I was hopeful he could help me. I had no way to closely examine my treasure. But he would. His examination was over rather quickly. The news was not to be good. He likely said something to the effect "I'm sorry but your penny is worth just 1 cent. You see, under the loop it's obvious that your penny's date has been altered by filing away the third letter to turn a 4 into a 1. Your penny is really a 1944 D." I would learn this is not an uncommon manipulation of a 1944 D penny. I wish I had the foresight to keep that penny. It would likely be one of my favorite possessions. But alas, no. All I have is the (vague) memory of that day. "If it's too good to be true..." Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7940 Posts	Posted 09/09/2023 3:09 pm I remember my dad coming home Fridays after work and grocery shopping, and emptying change from his pockets for me to go through. As this was the early 1960s, there were plenty of early Lincolns, Buffalo nickels (already with the dates worn smooth), Roosevelts and Mercs, Franklin and Walker halves, and the occasional SLQ mixed in with the Washington quarters. I was also taken to a barbershop in town run by a kind old fella (certainly born in the 19th century) who sold old coins to young collectors from a display in his shop window: circulated V nickels, IHCs, Barber silver, Morgan and Peace dollars. I still have a few in the 2 x 2s he sold them in (which is why I can comment on how long a coin will last in an old 2 x 2). Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188513 Posts	Posted 09/11/2023 11:32 am Quote: I wish I had the foresight to keep that penny. It would likely be one of my favorite possessions. But alas, no. All I have is the (vague) memory of that day. Indeed. Would be a nice conversation piece. At least you still have the conversation. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16829 Posts	Posted 09/11/2023 10:07 pm I have to say, I don't really remember any specific pre-collecting recollections of coins, just some vague remembrance. Growing up in the 1970s in Australia, my childhood coins were Australian decimal coins. I do remember being somewhat confused by exactly what was supposed to be depicted on most of them. The one cent had some kind of possum, the 2 cent a frilly lizard (that one was obvious), the 5 cent a porcupine or hedgehog ("echindnas" weren't really a household-familiar animal for suburban Australia back then), the 10 cent and 20 cent were just a mess of squiggles with no discernible animal featured, and the 50 cent had the coat of arms. My earliest coin-specific memories were from actually starting collecting coins, some time around 1980: going to a coin and stamp show, and seeing the foreign coin scratchdrays some of the dealers had on their tables. Weird languages, old coins from way before I was born (no Australian coin at the time would have been older than 1966), and most intriguingly of all to my little eight-year-old self, gold coins. Well, they were actually brass coins, as I was to be told later, but they looked like gold. I remember buying all the different "gold coins" they had. Needless to say, "my earliest coin collection" - the first couple of hundred entries in the database - has an over-representation of brass. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
livingwater Pillar of the Community United States 2232 Posts	Posted 09/12/2023 08:19 am I remember being about 5 yrs old, swallowed a coin, don't recall denomination. Doctor had me go number 2 in a bowl, mom had to check it for a few days til the coin passed. No, I didn't keep it LOL. Edited by livingwater 09/12/2023 08:20 am Report this Post to the Staff
Aurelius Valued Member United States 68 Posts	Posted 09/14/2023 10:54 pm My earliest memory of coins goes back to the mid 60s in the UK when I was 5. My parents had a small box in which they kept loose change. I remember how dark and worn some of the coins looked. My father had me put them into stacks of 12, which he said was one shilling. I remember thinking that was so weird. Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188513 Posts	Posted 09/15/2023 11:14 am Quote: My father had me put them into stacks of 12, which he said was one shilling. I remember thinking that was so weird. I can imagine! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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