Do You Remember The First Coin Of Your Collection?

Ah. My first coin. The year was 1894 and I owned an ice cream parlor in San Francisco. A child walked in and bought a glass with a fresh new dime from our local mint that looked so shiny and new I just had to keep it. Still have it around here somewhere.

The first coin that I remember in my collection was a 1921 s Lincoln Cent that I plucked from circulation in the mid 60's. it remains in my collection. The most inspiring coin was a 1913 s cent (also found in change)that I traded my 6th grade teacher for many missing holes in my Lincoln Cent folder as well as many Indian Head cents. I was this permanently hooked after this trade.

All I remember is it was a Kennedy half dollar that a friend of my father's gave me in 1971.
John1

@ CollectionMaster
( 1894 or 1994? )

( Cascade ....1894 ):

*It was a joke on a famous story *

http://www.coinweek.com/coins/news/...barber-dime/

I must have been interested in coins before that, so maybe I had something earlier that I don't remember. But this was probably the first coin I consciously collected.

It was sometime in the late 1990s, and I had just re-read (a modern edition of) a very nice 1930s popular math book.
And then I saw a dirty circle, and I almost thought it was trash, but then I recognized one of the 1930s coin designs pictured in that book.
And I thought, wow, an actual coin from the 1930s? I must have it. And so I did.

Still have the darn thing (it's currently in the album I put together in 2010... back then a large part of my collection fit in that one 72-spot album - now that sounds silly).
Could post a photo (just took one), but I'm not sure you want to see it - it's that ugly.
...I'll probably post it in the Fourth Edition (which is due to get there in a week).

Do I remember the first coin of my collection? I don't even remember what I had for dinner last night.




I don't remember my sons names, I think it is Wingnut and Knucklehead or something like that.

It was close to 50 years ago when I started collecting. Most likely my first coin was a Lincoln Cent, could have been a wheatie or a memorial. I'm going to have to die and look back on my life to dredge up that memory. I don't think I will be able to report back to you after that.

2 years ago we had a substitute teacher for 2 weeks. She would hold daily contests, like who could name the most colors, animals, cities, etc in a minute. If you won, you got a fistful of coins from her purse. I won every single one of them, getting around 14 grabs. My hands were small, so the whole lot after the 2 weeks was about $10. But I found a black dime in there. Not the one I'm used to. I looked at the date, and it was 1901! it was a Barber dime, 1901 O. That was my first coin that sparked an interest towards coins.