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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Hello! Lets all post our first coin that started our collections! Mine is a 1927 LWC that I found while counting change for a trip! I remembered my dad telling me something about how rare it was, and I ended up finding a few others! I bet there were silver coins in that change jar (the total for quarters alone was $50) I didn't know to look. Fast forward 3 years and my LWC collection only needs 12 more coins. Note: I'm having an issue uploading photos so I cant share it right now... |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I wsh I could for some reason I am now getting error messages when trying to upload images.Have no clue why :(
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I started out buying "unsearched" wheat rolls, but this is the first single coin I bought......  |
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 United States
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That's half a century in my past, and as long gone as the rest of that time.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17905 Posts |
It was all started by getting this 1874 penny in my pocket money nearly five decades ago! It was by far the nicest Bun Penny I'd ever seen, and I was intrigued by the fact that it had both a lighthouse and a ship on it (I'd already noticed that pennies from 1895-1936 had neither but those from 1937 onwards had a lighthouse).  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Mine is a 1927-D Peace dollar given to me by my Grandmother. I don't have a photo of it and my youngest daughter is now the curator. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Was about 43 years ago for me and it's long gone now. It was an 1829 Half Dime and although this isn't the coin, it looked about like this one as far as color and grade.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Mine was a 1/4 Stuber 1784 from the Duchy of Berg my Grandmother had. It is still around somewhere, hidden in one of my albums.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Wow, very cool! Very interesting stories!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We're talking over 40 years ago for me. I was just a little tyke, and I remember my grandfather giving me a Franklin half, and trying to explain to me how it was to be kept, as opposed to spent. This was about 1974, and I don't know for sure, as I was only about 4 years old, but I imagine you could still pull Franklin halves from circulation. They were probably dwindling though, considering how there was a fever for removing silver from circulation about that time. I have no idea what I did with the half. Probably spent it. My grandfather kept exposing me to coins though, and it stuck. |
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United States
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For me there are really two, When I was about 10 years old my grandma took me to a coin store to buy some coins with money that my great grandma had given me, she passed away right after she gave me the money, so my grandma took me to go get a coin to commemorate her (at this time I had no interest in coin collecting, and put the coins on the shelf until about 10 years later). The coin we bought was a 1918-S Walking Liberty half, made in the year that my great grandmother was born.   The second coin is the one that really ignited my interest in collecting. One day we were remodeling our living room and were taking out our concrete mantle piece using some sledgehammers. When we split it open inside we saw a very old quarter, and old SLQ, although we didnt know it at the time, it was very worn and corroded, but incredibly interesting, and that was what piqued my interest, that's also the reason that when I finally decided to start a set instead of just types that it would be an SLQ set. Here's the picture of it.   |
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Valued Member
United States
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My first coin was an 1884 San Francisco Double Eagle given me by my grandmother as the latest incarnation of a very old custom. From the old country, grandparents would give a gold coin to the parents of newborns in case they needed a proper Christian burial, as happened somewhat often in the old days. Young men working their first paying job were to save their first earnings and set aside a gold coin with their parents to hold, for the same purpose, since insurance policies are a somewhat new service. This was how it was done up to the 20th century. Those gold coins happily not being needed, were sacred, would be saved and never spent, so that the family would never be entirely destitute, often being passed down to the next generation, in the form of old gold coins, each a remembrance of someone special of long ago. My father enjoyed counting his mother's golden money. It is something like a "tontine" I performed for all my sibling's children as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
506 Posts |
I first got into collecting with the State Quarters series. I then moved to the Presidential dollars and am still stashing those national park quarters. The coin that really got me going was a 1899 O Morgan. I now realize how bad of a purchase it was (the seller used stock photos, the coin has PVC damage, and is not worth as much as I paid for it), but I credit it as the coin that inspired me. The Morgan dollars are now my main collecting interest. I guess it wasn't that bad of a purchase after all. |
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The first coin I bought was a 1921 Morgan from junk bin. I still have it in my 20th century type set
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Valued Member
United States
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1989 ASE given to my parents when I was born. didnt know they even had it till after I bought a group of foreign coins from an antique mall, so it's not technically my first but I still consider it as anyways |
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