Whats Your Most Meaningful Coin(S) And Why?

Mine is my 1925 Buffalo nickel. The thing is, I don't even have it in my hand, yet.

My amazing girlfriend and I are tight on money this year, (due to health issues) and we decided to do valentine's day on pretty much no budget. Well, she had a bucket of change that was in her basement that she had forgot about, next to the dryer. It was from a previous boyfriend, who never emptied his pocket's for laundry. She would empty all of his change into the bucket. With my new interest in coins, and nickels specifically, she went through all of the change, and looked for anything special. Needless to say, she stumbled upon a 1925 buffalo. The fact that she makes sure to be interested in any, and all hobbies that I show interest in means the absolute world to me. I will be getting it tomorrow, which I can't wait for! I'm going to clean it up nice, and put it in a nice case to carry around for me. Sort of, my lucky nickel. I'm sure I will use it as a card weight when I play poker, among other things.

She's a keeper. ;-)

I have a few:

1909 VDB Cent (VF+): It was the first coin I bought. Only 75 cents back when I was four years old (1991). Since then, I have upgraded to BU Red but I am going to keep this one for sentimental value.

1927 Dollar (AU+): My great grandparents got brand new dollar coins for their sons when they were born. This was my grandfather's which he had since 1927. He gave it to me when I began working on my Peace dollar collection about 12 years ago.

1876 Swiss 5fr. (AU): This one has no real story so I made one up. I inherited this coin along with a bunch of 19th and 20th century US and Canadian coins. To me, it was odd that it was in its own 2x2 unlike any of the others. My great great granparents were born in Switzerland and moved to the US in 1890. My story is that it was brought to this country by my family in 1890 and kept since then.

@hondo.....he is old which is why I used the "~"

My most meaningful coins are the one's my father gave me including a 22s peace,
48d franklin, and a 1864 2 cent. Two coins which are meaningful that I bought are my 14d and 09s lincolns,
just because I never thought I would own either of them. That is before I decided to get "serious"
about coin collecting. My daughter recently gave me a an ASE which I gave her when she graduated from high school.
She knows all this stuff is going in hands some day anyway and I think of her every time I see that coin.
It is very quickly becoming my favorite coin.

Exactly why he saved them. Possibly the first ones ever made and not even the president yet.
Yes there have been seveal posts like this and it is easy to see why. How did you get started, who inspired you, your first coin, etc. are all really rather important stories about a favorite and popular hobby.

By my calculations the oldest he could be is 54. If he was born in 58' he would be 13 in 71'.

Details of why, when or how to me are not that important when it involves a gift from someone no longer with us. Coins my Dad gave me are still with me and that always sort of makes him here too. When or why he gave them to me is not the really important thing.

I started thinking about when I was a kid and first got into collecting. My parents would always send my sister and I to our grandparents farm in Kansas for a month every summer. When I was around 10-12 years of age in the early 80's I remember telling my grandfather that I was bored and wanted something to do. This is when he introduced me to roll hunting. He pulled out his coin collection and showed it to me, it was impressive to say the least. I remember at the end of the summer he told me that one day the collection would be mine if I wanted it. I took what I learned that summer back to Texas with me and started searching rolls of nickels and penny rolls. Being such a young kid I could only afford to get $10 worth at a time but it was fun. I remember my dad bringing me home rolls of nickels from time to time to search just because he was at the bank and decided to get me a roll.

My grandfather passed about 5 years after that summer and I completely forgot about his collection. About 10 years ago my grandmother asked my father to sell the collection so that she would have some extra money and my dad brought the collection back with him from Kansas and asked me to help him inventory it before he tried to sell it. I remember being blown away at what he had, this time I was much older and could more appreciate the collection. The collection was all silver and my grandfather had well over 1,000 coins, most of which were half dollars and dimes with some quarters. My father sold the collection for $5K for it, silver was around $5 an ounce back then. I can only imagine what that collection would be worth today and I am sure there were some key dates that we got ripped off on but did not know any better. My dad told me last week that he really regretted selling the collection because he knew his father wanted me to have the collection but at the time he was worried my some of the other family members might take the collection and use it as cash at face value and my grandmother needed the money. I understand but I still have my memories and an introduction to this hobby.