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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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My first coin of American currency. 54 years in my hands.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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First coin I ever bought at a public auction was a silver 3 cent piece much like yours but it is gone now.  I remember how exciting it was to win it. I was at the auction with my father with maybe 20 bucks to spend. I got something else too but forget what it was. The first was the funnest. My first coin collected was probably a Jefferson nickel and I have no idea if I still have it or not. Probably in the mix here someplace. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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A 1905-O Barber Half was the coin that took me on the ride of my life ; Still haven't gotten off that rocket yet !  |
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
I remember mine wasn't a single coin. My Dad gave me a very large quantity of "unsearched" wheat cents (yeah right, I know he searched them before he gave them to me) and a cent folder.
He also let me ruin them. With Brasso or whatever it was. Made them shiny and disgusting. But letting me ruin them and grow out of that on my own was probably way smarter than trying to stop me from enjoying my new wheat cents and thinking the hobby wasn't fun.
Of course, I haven't cleaned any coin since that fiasco 35 years ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
869 Posts |
Believe it or not . . I still have it. 1922D Peace dollar. Given to me by my uncle in the early 60's. It spent many years in a box with my other coins, until I finally put it in an album. Thanks for this thread idea, I'm happy to show it off!    |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1628 Posts |
I started collecting by going through "unsearched wheat rolls" but this is the first single coin I ever bought, and it also still resides with me after 30 some years.....  |
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Rest in Peace
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My VERY first? That would have to be as a youngster, late 50's early 60's with my father...back then everything was silver. Not uncommon to get Mercs, Buffalos, Indians and even down to Barber quarters and Halves. Silver certs could get you a silver dollar if the tellers had one. My first memorable find was at Woolworth's 5 & 10 soda fountain in downtown Glen Ellyn, IL, probably around '61 or '62. In change was an honest to goodness 1937D Buff with 3-legs! Jumped around like my pants were on fire. Didn't have a hole in the folder so figured to put it in a safe place, my piggy bank so I wouldn't lose it. A few months later went looking for it to show a friend...it was GONE! I hadn't been in there, so where'd it go? Come to find out my mother raided my bank for parking meter change...  |
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New Member
United States
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It was actually 4 coins that got me started, and I still have them. In the summer of '77 I was at a picnic with my buddy and his family. At the picnic there were swimming races for boys and girls of the same age. I won the 12 year old boys race and received a bicentennial Ike. After all the races, all the boys winners raced and I won that one, beating my buddy (13) and his older brother (15), and I got another bicentennial Ike. The last race of the day was against the girl's champ (she was 18) and I beat her as well. For that I received 2 bicentennial Ikes.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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The coin that started my collection was a 50 yen piece from Japan, dated 1962. Although it being a foreign coin was quite interesting, I remember it was the centre hole that intrigued me the most. And here it is:  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2781 Posts |
off metal mint error found in pocket change. while not the first coin in my collection, I researched it here on CCF and then sold it to a member which bankrolled my start into collecting.  |
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 United States
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My first coin of American currency. 54 years in my hands. Very nice!  I remember my first two. Ikes of course.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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First coin was a 1903 V-Nickle grandma happened across in a dresser drawer in around 1990. I still have it, proudly kept with my favorites.
First coin I bought was a large cent at a local coin show. Still have it too.
First '82 was an S Morgan my dad got me for my 15th birthday and been goin strong ever since. Reached 100 '82s coving 11 centuries over this past Christmas holidays!
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03/25/2017 09:25 am
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Valued Member
United States
123 Posts |
I received a Whitman coin book for Lincoln cents that had a slot for each year. I still have the book. The last date printed in the book is 1964. It is mostly empty now because I have four other Lincoln collections and I have robbed from my first coin book.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
My collection started with a little jar of coins that my mother gave to me when I was old enough to not put them in my mouth. It was maybe 75ish coins ranging from wheat pennies she pulled from circulation to assorted European and Mexican coins from family members' vacations. I added to it periodically from gifts until I lost interest as a teenager. I did buy some junk box world coins at a coin show when I was about 11.
I got interested in collecting again when I started noticing old coins in my till at my cashier job. First was a 1947-s nickel that I still have.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Way, way back my Dad came home from work and showed me a new kind of coin that just came out. He gave it to me and that 1943 Steel Cent was my start in collecting. I think I still have it but now mixed in with well over 4 thousand of them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
814 Posts |
The first coins that sparked my interest when I first started collecting back in the early to mid 90s were a couple dateless Buffalo nickels and worn Mercs my grandparents gave me, along with an 1881 Haiti silver Gourde, which still resides in my collection and is my current avatar. On more than one occasion I made the mistake of polishing it which ruined any remaining collector value it had, I suppose, but it's still a lovely coin. First coin I ever bought was a 1961 proof Franklin half around 1994 or so. I thought Franklin halves were just the neatest coin, and I didn't have one at the time, so that was my first. I also still have it in my type collection. |
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