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Valued Member
United States
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I'm just wondering what was your first real coin purchase and around what did you spend?
I have bought some coins but nothing really over ten bucks. Some proof coins and some other stuff but nothing real pricy.
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Canada
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The first coin I remember buying was as a kid, perhaps 12 or 13, in a Halifax coin shop owned by this cantankerous guy that overpriced and over graded everything (but I didn't know that as a kid). I was looking at a wall of coins in 2x2s behind a glass display, trying to decide what to buy when an 1899 US dime, maybe G or VG, stood out only because it was the 1800s. So I bought that for $6, which was a lot for me at that age. Years later I disappointedly looked at a price guide and saw it still wasn't worth near that $6. I'm not even sure what became of that dime because I don't seem to have it any more.
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Canada
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I bought my first coin as a gift for a relative who collected. It was a 1947 "dot" nickel. I paid 60 bucks for it and the shop owner said "that should have had a 100$ price tag on it" which made me feel like I had outsmarted him or something. I've been hooked ever since.
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 United States
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I bought an XF 1935 S Buffalo nickel from Littleton Coin Company for $5.50... First purchase, I belive. that was over a year and a half ago! |
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United States
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My first purchase was a G/VG 1857 FE cent I purchased in December. Unfortunately I overpaid. Dropped about 28 bucks for it but I'm still glad I bought it. It's definitely sealed my obsession though. I can't get on the Bay now without purchasing a coin the next morning.
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United States
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Actually purchased.... A 2014 Maple Leaf, and 2015 Silver Eagle. Both posted on the forum. I've actually already added to that collection since then, but haven't had a chance to take some decent pics yet.
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United States
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I started out buying "unsearched wheat rolls", but this was the first single coin I bought. (sometime in the early '80s) My records (yes I STILL have them) say I paid $8.00 for it.  |
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United States
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I paid $2 for a VG cleaned 1905 IHC when Iwas about 8-9 years old. That was about ten years ago. |
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United States
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I started buying uncirculated Morgan dollars in 1976, not sure which one was the first, but I still have it (them)  Almost forgot - I still have my 1973 RedBook with the dates circled.  Edited by dave700x
02/23/2016 9:57 pm
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United States
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United States
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My parents took me to a coin show when I was maybe 10 or 11... mostly to window shop. I did a YN scavenger hunt for some freebies, then broke the bank and spent $3 at one dealer's 25 cent junk bin. Got a nice VF 1945 Philippines 10 centavos, a 1855 French 10 centimes (my oldest coin at the time), and a handful of WWI/II era coins. Still have them all.
I laid low for a while until I bought a VG 1936 half dollar off of one of my cashier friends that had come from a customer. Paid $5 and still have it, too.
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United States
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First coin was a 1900 V nickel when I was like 9 and thought it was super awesome if was almost 100. I paid 100 tickets at an arcade at my best friends birthday party. The first actual coin was a group of average 1930's Buffalo nickels out of a dealers junk box that at a store inside the mall in a northwestern Indiana town. .50 or .75 apiece can't remember but the first was a 1937. After that maybe a set of 1943 reprocessed cents In a flea market for like .75 apiece lol The first coin related item was when I was 7 at Walt Disney world in Liberty square. They had big replica coins that was super cool but I was confused since they didn't have the same designs I was used to. I got a large 3.5 Buffaloe nickel and a Indiana head cent, I thought they were used in Indian reservations or something back then. |
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United States
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Hard to forget. Summer of 1972. My Grandfather and I wanted a couple rolls of 1972 pennies the local coin shop. The price was somewhere around .75-.80 a roll I believe. It was a small storefront built onto the guys house. This was my first trip to a coin shop and I was as excited as a kid could be. My Grandfather got into a discussion with the owner about a small squeeze bottle of "Nic-a-Date" (nitric acid) for restoring dates to Buffalo nickels. Meanwhile I was looking in the few display cases b/c I wanted to get the oldest one I could afford. My eyes landed on a beautiful 1879 Morgan. I believe it was 5.70 or else 7.50, I don't know which. Silver was at 2.80 for one dollar face value. The Morgan was labeled as being Unc (later after learning a bit of grading I could tell it was overgraded). I was so excited, and I know my grandfather was enjoying this also. We forgot the rolls of pennies. The next week we were sorry we had forgotten. The same coin shop was advertising the "newly discovered" 1972 DDO pennies. The owner was selling them for 50.00 each (a lot more money back then than now). We talked with the owner and he told us all the rolls he had received from his supplier were DDOs! Getting 100 72 DDOs for about 1.50 would have been the buy of the century. I still have the Morgan. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Australia
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1896 Double Eagle at age 16, in XF45 or thereabouts.
I sold my Marklin HO scale electric train set to raise the money to buy the coin.
I wish I had kept the train set because in total, the train set would have been worth well over AUD $2,000 now.
I have often reported an 1891 Sydney Mint Half Sovereign in VF-EF, for my first significant coin, because the two were purchased at about the same time. Can't remember now exactly which came first. Both came more than 50 years ago; I am an old man now.
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Valued Member
United States
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Eight Common date AU 1800's Morgans from an 80 year old man for $100. And lately an 1893CC Morgan that turned out to be fake. ugh
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United States
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It was so long ago that I have idea. The peanut farmer was probably the President then.
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