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Valued Member
United States
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The 1980 US mint proof set my late father gave me in 1990 on my 10th birthday. It is priceless to me.
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New Member
United States
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I received a velvet bag full of coins from my great-grandmother for my ninth birthday in '95. She was a waitress at a diner for about 50 years and had saved any old or odd coins that were left to her as a tip. I still have every single one of them. Most of them are foreign oddities but the one I always liked the most was a 1942s Merc. My grandfather has also given me several coins over the years after he learned I took an interest in coin collecting. It's a little harder to remember what was the first coin I actually purchased. I remember buying an 1886 Indian Head penny (bought it because it was 100 years older than me) at a gun show when I was young, but I'm not sure that it was the first one I ever purchased. There is an old hardware store up the road from me that had a little vending machine (looked like a bubble gum machine) that would give you a coin in a round plastic capsule for 50 cents. Remember blowing a lot of quarters in that thing. I recall getting my first steel penny out of that little machine |
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United States
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Canada
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The first I found was a Tanzanian coin under a swing when I was 7 years old and the first one I bought was probably a steel penny for $3.50 when I was 10, what a rip off!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1st purchase was a 1985 Canadian Silver Proof set; I still have it, and it's still my most beautiful set...
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I started roll searching when I was 13. My first purchases were MS Morgan dollars back in the mid 70's. |
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 United States
350 Posts |
It's neat how many people in this small thread have become avid collectors after a family member gave them a SINGLE coin at some point in there life...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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About 1978 I was 15, soon after I bought my first White's detector. Found (eyeballed) an 1883 V nickel in the flower bed of a late 1800's home. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
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I guess it's time to bare my soul...... The "first coin" I got was a 1924 penny (Lincoln cent, for you purists  ) that turned up in the small amount of change I had at 10 or 11 years old. I loved that penny because it was SO OLD! That struck the match. A few years later I got an 1896 Morgan dollar, free, from a kid at school that had been holed to wear as a necklace. That stoked the fire. My freshman year in high school I bought a 1935 Buffalo from another kid for 35 cents, the first coin I bought. The '24 Lincoln is in my Intercept Shield album that is complete minus 2 - the 09Svdb and 22Plain, and BU from '35 up, and there it shall always stay - never to be upgraded. The Morgan I gave to as good friend in about '92, and the Buffalo is floatin' around here somewhere. I've given away a number of coins to friends over the years, and perhaps it lit something in them. Steve |
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Man, I absolutely love collecting coins!
... but it's kinda funny how addictive collecting coins can be, eh?
And you're definitely correct => it seems like the majority of collectors get hooked because a loved-one had the same addiction/love ... I thank them for that.
==> long live coin collecting!
Edited by stevex6
11/01/2011 7:01 pm
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United States
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If I recall correctly, the first coins I ever bought was a bag of 50 wheat cents for $5. I still have them. They're still in the original holders I put them in.
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Valued Member
United States
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When I was about ten years old, there was a coin dealer in a small strip mall within walking distance of my house. I purchased Whitman books from him and started to fill holes from circulation. He also had a bowl of common IHC dates for 7 cents each. I would go there every once in a while and look through them to see if he received anything new. I think those were the first coins that I purchased. |
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