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New Zealand
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What was the first coin in your collection you ever collected? Might be pushing some of your memories a bit here! Mine was a 1971 25 rupiah from Indonesia my mum found in her change. I still have it too!
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United States
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United States
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In first grade, I noticed the Statehood Quarters in my ice cream money and started saving them. Then I found a bicentennial quarter, my dad then gave me a folder to start organizing these coins; I was hooked. I still have the folder, but not the coins. |
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United States
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You mean that I found and put aside? That'd be a 64 JFK. If you mean bought, that'd be an 1879 Morgan MS-63.
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Puerto Rico
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Valued Member
United States
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First coin in my collection was a Tempo Tsuho 100 Mon Coin.
However, the first coin I ever kept was a 1972 Silver Dollar I received while in the hospital with a broken leg at the age of six as a gift from one of the nurses. I somehow managed to never spend the dollar as a kid & still have it.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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The first coin I ever kept was a beat-up Lincoln Wheat cent that fell out of my mother's lucky horse shoe key chain. I think that was about 50 years ago. The first coin I ever bought was a Columbian Exposition half dollar. (I am certain that I paid too much.) I bought that coin in 2011. |
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Pillar of the Community
798 Posts |
I started collecting pennies when I was 7, not "coin collecting" but just any penny I could get a hold of. I forgot about my container of pennies for a while and when I was 11 or 12 I looked through it and found some old Canadian pennies from the 40`s and 50`s and 60`s. Those pennies I would say were the first of my coin collection today but the first encapsulated coin was an 1859 penny that smelled heavily like cigar smoke. Also just for the heck of it... my first ICCS graded coin, an 1870 Can 50 cent in VF-20.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I can't even remember my first coin. I was exposed to coins and had coins given to me at a very young age by my grandfather. I had one of those small fire boxes and I would put everything I got into that. I still have that fire box to this day with everything in it.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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My first coin? That takes me back to 1958!
That would have to be a British George 1V shilling of 1826.
My father was asked to crack a company safe, because the keys had been lost. He made a skeleton key out of wire and also picked a combination lock, to open the safe. As a 12 year old I was standing behind him, as he opened the door.
He pulled out the bottom tray in the safe, and under an envelope lay the above mentioned shilling. He flipped it at me and said:
"Have this!" I have obeyed his instructions to this day.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mine was an 1829 Half Dime. I was about 8 years old and a friend gave it to me. I'm not sure but I think he may have taken it from his Dad.  |
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Canada
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It's a bit complicated, really. My mom used to ask a person who sells at at the wet market to change her bill to these coins to take home for me to have:  She told me he said that everyone prefers having the paper bills instead of these heavy coins! I lost most of them, but this was the spark that got me started. Later, the yellow coins got rare when there were aluminium coins so whenever I got the chance I took (yes, took, there was usually some change lying around in the car) the yellow coin. These were the earliest coins I actually remember keeping:  A bunch of assorted Indonesian, Ned Indies, Singaporean, Chinese, Hong Kong, Australian and US coins. There are also some Indonesian notes. My grandma gave them to me when I was in primary school. Grade 3, I think. I kept them in my drawer for many many years before actually looking at this this past summer. This was the one that got me started in Canada:   I'm used to seeing different designs on the front, but this one has a different head? Wow! It goes on from there. I haven't been able to catch the true toning of this coin on camera. It's gorgeous. Edited by Altaira
10/29/2014 01:47 am
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 Canada
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Don't remember my first coin but in 1963 I started filling Whitman folders with change and coins from my paper route. I still have the incomplete 5 cent book from back then.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A well worn 1900 Liberty nickel, 1937 s buffalo, and a 1943 Mercury dime. I got them all at this redemption arcade at my best friends birthday party when I was a kid. |
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 United States
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Don't remember my first coin but in 1963 I started filling Whitman folders with change and coins from my paper route. I still have the incomplete 5 cent book from back then.
That's how Dr. Jerry Buss started collecting, and he still owned those books when he died. In the meantime, at one point or another he also owned a 1913 Liberty nickel, an 1804 Dollar, and the Los Angeles Lakers.  My first was an 1861 IHC which I dug while playing with my Matchboxes, cutting roads into our steeply-stepped front yard. The neighborhood dates to before 1900, so it's not really surprising to have dug something like that. Wish I knew where that coin went.  |
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