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United States
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I haven't seen a post like this on here, but please excuse me if there is one already. What coin or coins got you started collecting? Did you find an interesting coin in change, buy one as a kid or inherit a collection? I hope to get some unique answersand sTories. Mine is: My grandmother started me collecting with her old Whitman Buffalo nickel book. It was only about 1/4 full (I think she lost interest). I started from there but immediately began my own Wheat cent book when I was about 10. My grandfather worked for a vending company in the 40s and would find alot of great stuff kids would put into the machines....including a few half eagles. So when inherited her collection when she passed, I acquired alot of interesting stuff. My personal favorite coin is a 1827 half dollar she gave me for my 12th birthday. Its on here under grading help. I hope to hear all of your stories. Thanks |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My great grandfather was a collector of Indian Head cents. He started me off on wheat cents. That was back in the late 70s when they could still be found in general circulation. From there it was on to Indian Head cents. Now I collect large cents generally. I still have a collection of wheat cents and have nearly all of the Indian Heads my great grandfather gave me. |
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United States
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The first coin I hoarded was wheat pennies when I was like 6 or 7. My first coin that I got that made me start collecting was a 1900 Liberty nickel and a 1937 d Buffalo nickel as a prize from a gaming arcade on my best friends 10th birthday. |
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United States
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I am the first coin collector in my family that I know of, so I never inherited anything. However, when I was younger, I started off with wheat pennies, tokens, and foreign coins and it all took off from there  |
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United States
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When I was younger I went to a small private school kindergarten though 8th grade. One year all the classes would collect and bring in pennies through donations as a fund raiser to help pay for school supplies. There wasn't that many people that went there, each class size would average 20-25 students so that's about 200 students for the entire school combined. Anyway at the end of the fund raiser the upper classes had the privilege of counting and putting all the cents into rolls. It was then the coin bug bite me and I started to find my first wheat cents. Most of the kids in my class found it to be boring counting and rolling the coins.....not me though. It quickly became my favorite time of the day. I would be sure to grab the biggest scoop of cents out of the bucket so I would be able to search more of them. I made sure to ask the teach if I could keep the wheat cents I found and she said as long as I replaced them with my own money it wouldn't be a problem. I think I was 11 years old at the time and I have been searching my pocket change ever since.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Morgans, Morgans, Morgans... In all the colors of the rainbow!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Odd no one jumped in showing a link to all the similar posts. I think I replied to many or at least a few of these.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Atleast it's a fun and friendly topic and not political or economic based.
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United States
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When I was a kid I really liked playing with fake money. Little plastic coins & bright green play bills.
My father used to bring me all sorts of foreign money he would find in pocket change or buy Jamaican, French & Caribbean bills from his boss after he vacationed. I kept them in a wooden velvet lined box on the headboard of my bed & daydream about traveling the world as a secret spy on covert missions with my "foreign assets".
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03/05/2015 4:00 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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A teacher at my primary school, Miss Davis, talked about pennies one day and said that some had a lighthouse on them and others didn't. This was before decimal currency and she was talking about the big old pennies. I started looking at pennies and the different portraits on them, and when I found one that had both a lighthouse AND a ship on it, I was hooked! I would have been about six years old.
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United States
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I started delivering newspapers when I was 13.
A weekly subscription was under $1.
I was getting lots of Wheaties.
That started me.
In time I got two dated 1909 and two 1909 VDB.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My grandpa gave me a Wheat cent book when I was 6. I still have it and have been collecting ever since. |
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Australia
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An 1826 George V1 shilling, given to me by my father in 1958.
I was with him when he was asked to pick the a Company safe, because the keys had been lost.
He picked the lock without damage and shilling was sitting in the bottom drawer of the safe. He picked it up, flipped it at me and said,
"Here, have this".
I still have the coin.
I was working with my dad from about 12 years old, and I spent all that was paid on coins during my next 6 school years, after that event.
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 United States
301 Posts |
Great stories so far! Thanks for sharing everyone!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Walked into a grocreie store with my parents. asked my mom to have $0.50 out of my allowance. went to the claw machine game. saw an ike. won an ike for $0.50  |
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United States
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I got started with Lincoln Wheats as a kid in the late 70's. Found many teens, 20's, and 30's just in change. All of them were in AG/G condition, but that didn't matter to me as long as I could read the date!
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