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New Member
United States
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Hey guys! How long have you guys been collecting? Do you remember what your first coin was? I got my first foreign coin when I was about 8 or 9. It's just a 100 Lei coin from Romania. I got it when a missionary to Romania came to visit my church. They let us keep a Romanian coin that they brought. Then about a year or so later I got some coins from the Philippines from a missionary boy that was in my class at school. That kind of started my interest for coin collecting and I've been collecting ever since! I collect mostly foreign coins. I don't have many old coins, the oldest one I have is a 1877 Spanish coin, which is in pretty bad shape. I'd love to see pictures of your first coins if you still have them!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
Long enough, jlawson93, to remember saving a 1959 Lincoln Memorial cent when it first appeared in circulation. So I guess since I was 8. I have collected, on and off, for 53 years. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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In 1982 I dug up a silver half crown from the back garden of the house I had just moved into (I was 3-4 at the time and just helping my dad seive the earth. It was dated 1922 and that was my first coin... I still have it (I can't obtain images at the moment since my sscanner is incompatable with windows 7 but there is a very similar coin pictured in another thread "my world silver collection") http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...20330_60.jpgEdited by DavidUK
08/11/2012 4:06 pm
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New Member
United States
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just started about 5 months ago.
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New Member
United States
26 Posts |
From the age of 4 or 5 as a hobby with my grandmother.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36746 Posts |
Got a group of coins from my grandmother in 1957. I still have several of them including a Stone Mountain Half. Also have the original leather change purse she had the coins in. I was hooked from then on and around 1959 started buying Whiteman folders to start putting coins in. Back then you could complete sets from circulation, other than the Barber stuff.
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New Member
 United States
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Thanks for all of your replies!! I love coin collecting, and I have a fascination with older coins, though I don't have many! I have one from 1877 from Spain, 1881 from Guatemala and one from 1882 from England as well(that one is in pretty bad shape as well). I also love WW2 coins! One of my favorites that I have is from Vichy France. My dad has given me a few older US coins from his collection from my grandfather and a few from his trip to England in the 80's(though I have more English coins now since I just got back from a 7 week trip to England!!). |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1436 Posts |
A little over three years. My first coin was an AU-55 1864 Two-Cent Piece. Actually wanted that coin because it was the first US coin to have "IN GOD WE TRUST" on it.
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Valued Member
United States
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When I was a wee-lad of 11 or 12 my family had a change jar. I was rolling coins in it so we could take it to the bank(this was 2 years savings for our family vacation) well with the pennies I just stated putting them in chronological order had almost all from 65-2000 (dates may have varied a bit). My grandfather was a coin collector and I called him and told him of all the pennies I had in order, at that point he asked if I had all the P's and D's, I was like what? At that point the Fever began to set in. I am now 24 so I have been collecting for 11-13 years Depending on when this ^^^^^^^ actually happened!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've been collecting for about 5 years now. I don't remember my first coin per se, but my Dad had a pile of random foreign change from his travels and I always enjoyed going through them as a kid. That sparked something in my late 20s.
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Moderator
 United States
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Started in 1971 on and off over the years, mostly on. My first coin was a Kennedy half dollar a friend of my fathers gave me. And no I no longer have it,don't know what happen to it. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just started a while back. My Dad gave me a brand new 1943 Cent. They just came out. That got me started and I still have it. Seams like a few days ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have been collecting for about 10 years and more seriously for a couple of years. My passion for the hobby became much stronger when I bought a Flying Eagle cent after looking at my grandfathers modest accumulation of old silver coins. Moving to a large city with many coin shops and better inventories of rare coins for sale has really ignited my interest. Back in the small city I grew up in they had one coin shop that had few very collectible and what they had was priced above RedBook. So moving was a renaissance of sorts, finding better stuff at reasonable prices. |
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United States
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That you for sharing your story. The answer to your first question is in my signature.  I remember the first two coins. Those who have been around a while know what they are. |
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Valued Member
United States
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My very first collecting was when I was probably about 5. My parents played a game called "Tripoli" that used a ton of pennies. My brother and I used to sort through those pennies for hours. Of course they were the same pennies over and over so not many new finds in there.
But I didn't actually start buying coins until about 7 years ago. Started with ancients and have pretty much gone nuts from there. Not much I won't collect now.
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Valued Member
Canada
316 Posts |
It will make almost a year now. my dad gave me his collection of proof set and some silver. So I decide to make it grow and I will pass it down to the kids later on. The first coin I bought was 2011 maple leaf forever and the 20 for 20 canoe. I'm working on canadian ''all denomation'' set, birthyear foreign coinsets (kids,wife and mine)and some NCLT and some silver
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