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Valued Member
United States
439 Posts |
This forum and many of the people in it have been really good to me. I've learned a lot from lurking around and been entertained quite a bit as well. I've managed a few trades I've been really happy with (since I got my 50 posts in *snicker*) and even had some folks send coins outright stating they weren't even looking for anything in return (special thanks to Snooba and DJLuster especially with my daughters recent thingie) so I figure it's about time I said thanks and this is the best way I can think of to give back to the forum.
Here's the deal, it's gonna be really simple, if you're interested just post in here and you qualify, one post each please. In your post I want to hear about your baby, the prize coin, set, whatever it is that you are really just tickled pink with, pics are optional. On Saint Patricks day, the 17th, I'm gonna take down the name of everyone that enters and throw them all in a hat and let my daughter draw the winners so everyone has an equal chance.
First prize is a 2006 silver eagle (okay, I'm slack and I'm waiting for silver to go down before I get any 07s.)
Second prize is five P mint George Washington dollars.
Third prize is a single George Washington dollar.
Have fun and thanks again y'all.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
882 Posts |
Ok, it was a sunny warm midsummer bay. I must of been 14 years old. I was at a fle market with my grandmother. I kept asking her to buy me a sling shot but she refused to because she knew I would go out and break a window or try hitting a cat. I was slightly dissapointed. Oh! Whats that? Something caught my eye. I saw a bowl full of Buffalo nickels for sale. I looked at my grandmother and asked, "how about some of these?" They were three for a dollar. My grandmother said, "Well sure, just make sure you get the ones whith the full dates." This was my first coins to my coin collection. Ever since then I have been learning and collecting more and more every day. Before I knew it I was buying $20 worth of pennies from the bank and looking throught them all for only 10 wheat cents. Then came the Kennedy half dollars, then the visits to the coin shop, then my first coin show. So long story short, my grandmother bought me my first coins for my collection. Now I have her collection which includes her favorit Mercury dime set (minus the 3 key dates). Thanks for the contest, TSOTL! Ty |
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Rest in Peace
Australia
661 Posts |
My favorite part of my collection is a set I have just completed.
It is a full set of all the A$1.00 circulating coins in silver. However it looks like being an ongoing project as the Mint has been issueing one every year of late. First issue was in 1990 and last year they issued two!!!
Anyway thanks for the chance to enter your draw.
regards,
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
My most prized coin is the one on I use for my avatar. Looking at it, one might think its a worthless old dime and should belong in a scrap heap. To me this Mercury dime has more meaning. When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my grandmother was rummaging thorough a closet in the basement. She found this dime in an old shoe box, tucked under a shoe. She gave it to me later that day. I thought it was the most beautiful thing, I had ever seen. I would spend each day looking at it admiring its beauty. Eventually I would discover other beautiful coins. This worn old Mercury, is the coin I cherish, since it developed my interest in numismatics. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1840 Posts |
My most prized coin is also my avatar. While it is not the most valuable coin that I have, it is the most prized coin in my fish-themed collection. My father started that collection for me on my 13th birthday when he bought me a cook island 50 cent piece.
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Valued Member
United States
129 Posts |
My most prized coin that I have is the 1882 S Morgan dollar I got at a coin show, bought it for $20 and I would say its atleast a MS65 Cameo. I once got a 1857 Flying Eagle penny as change at Burger King. Please enter me in your contest :) |
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United States
1154 Posts |
Once I started collecting I needed more to help the fix. I asked everyone I knew if they had any old coins. My mother told me that my great grandfather had collected some coins. I asked here who had it and she told me here brother did. After weeks and weeks of waiting axiously to see these coins that my great grandfather had collected, I saw the greatest thing on Thanksgiving. My uncle had with him, a old looking red binder and a baggy. I tediously opened the baggy and looked inside. At the top of the bag were pieces of hard cardboard with a pig square cut out of it. I wondered what they were for. But then I saw this big looking coin. I took it out and it was a Morgan dollar in about VF condition. I said to my self, these are the coins that I see on the internet! Now that morgan, a 1921 D in VF is my prize coin |
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Valued Member
Philippines
156 Posts |
I received my prize coin/medal from my mom. It commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Leyte Landing of Allied Forces led by General Douglas MacArthur on October 20, 1944. She said it was given to her one of the American soldiers who participated in the 5oth celebration. I know it doesn't worth much in monetary value but the history behind it, makes this as my prize possession.  |
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Valued Member
United States
393 Posts |
My most prized coin was an Indian Head cent that my grandfather gave me. He has since passed on and I can't find the coin. I'm sure the coin was probably a common date, but it's sorely missed because of sentimental value. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
I wish I could say I have just one very special coin, but that's not the case. I have several. I'll narrow it down to four.
One is a 1911 S Double Eagle. Important to me because I have only two double eagles plus an AGE, and also because my youngest son helped me pick it out at a coin store in Colorado Springs.
Secondly is a 1900 gold Half Eagle. My first gold coin, bought while in college, for $29.95!!
Thirdly, a 1997 Tenth-Ounce gold bullion coin, important because our three kids chipped in to buy it for me.
Finaly, a 1932 D quarter, about AU-50. The only rare coin I ever found in circulation.
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New Member
Australia
32 Posts |
i have a widows mite mike gave it to me  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1295 Posts |
My 1786 8R that I purchased with the help of a few members here at the CC. I get a grin every time I look at it and the die clash on the pillar side just makes it all the more interesting.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
9349 Posts |
My favourite coin is an old English Penny, given to me by my Father. As a young Lad he found it while playing in a small creek that ran behind his house. The Penny is badly worn, but has much sentimental value.  This coin started my interest in coin collecting, but the discovery of a large stash of Australian Pennies and Half Pennies really gave me a boost. This happened while I lived on a Hostel in Perth after arriving from England in 1969. I was running in the bushland, when I tripped on something. I turned around to see what I had tripped on, to find it was a large stone, that had turned over to reveal the underneath. I noticed a coin stuck to the mud on the stone and further investigation revealed many more. I still have many of these coins, but a lot have been swapped with members of this forum. Here is one of them...  It occured to me, that if I was to collect coins then I was in the ideal place to start, a Migrant Hostel. So I went around knocking on the doors of all the Foreign migrants and asking if they had any coins from their countries, that they did not want. I got quiet a collection and this is the basis of my world coin collection today. Here is one of my favourite coins I received on the Hostel...  Not much was added to the collection after this, except circulting Aussie coins. The collector in me lay dormant until I was surfing the net looking for a better way to store my coins, as they were starting to turn green in a PVC album. Then I found the CCF and now my collection has tripled in size in the last year. This was my last darkside coin I received...  Well that's my coin collecting life history. Steve  |
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Pillar of the Community
Egypt
3470 Posts |
I received my favorite coin from my mom it is a Zurich (Swiss canton) 5 schillings 1700, silver she had it as a gift from my grandmother who eventually had it it as a gift from the Mayer of Switzerland when she was there around 70 years ago.
thanks for the chance to enter your draw
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03/04/2007 8:12 pm
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New Member
Belarus
30 Posts |
My favourite coins are the coins I've got from my father, which he has got from his father. It was the start of collection.
Of course, also I like the Belarusian Ballet, that has been selected as the Coin of the Year.
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Valued Member
United States
459 Posts |
In your post I want to hear about your baby...Here's my favorite. My baby will inherit all my baby's...she's started her own 20th Cen. Type.  
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Posted 03/03/2007 05:52 am
