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Korea, Republic Of
489 Posts |
Prior to picking this coin up super cheap in a foreign live auction, I wasn't really into putting out the extra money to get a nice gold coin. Now I love them. I won this 1876 Australian Victoria Sovereign gold coin in 2018. Post your first gold coin either found, inherited, or collected over the years. My AUS 1876 Sov, NGC AU-50:  |
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 United States
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It's a US coin, but it's my one and only gold coin. I FOUND this one on a sidewalk in Dallas, TX back in 1992. It was in an unmarked 2X2 not far from a restaurant I used to go to for lunch. It was a really nice day for me, but I'm sure it was a really bad day for the collector that lost it.  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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United States
5825 Posts |
I can't.
It was a US 1984 Olympic Torch Bearer $10 commemorative and was sold years ago.
And for my current gold coins I don't know which was first.
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Valued Member
 Korea, Republic Of
489 Posts |
@Yokozuna You FOUND that? I would have had a heart attack! The fella that dropped that must have had a really bad day.
@Kango Show us your favorite one then :)
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United States
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My first and only gold is a 1782 Columbia escudo. I've had it around 6 years. It's nifty, but gold is really expensive when compared to how much I can otherwise buy for my hoard of 82s, so I've not opened that rabbit hole otherwise. I recall the days of the late 90s when gold could be a tad under $300 and wish I wasn't a poor teenager and could have loaded up on the sauce for cheap.  Edited by Collects82
12/30/2020 10:34 am
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Valued Member
Korea, Republic Of
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@Collects82 that thing is awesome!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
6514 Posts |
That's incredible Yokozuna that you found that coin on the sidewalk. If I were to find one of those today it sure would wash a lot of the 2020 grime I have caked on me off.
Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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United States
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My first gold coin was a 1927 20$ Saint I bought from a coin shop in Preston Center in Dallas, Texas back in the early 1960's for something around 80$. It left my collection when I bought a house in the 1970's .... it became part of the down payment!
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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When I started collecting at the age of about 7 I'd never have been able to get a gold coin. Unless it was an inherited family heirloom, a British collector could only obtain gold coins if they had a Bank of England Licence, and they didn't give those out to seven-year-olds. But Edward Heath's Conservative Government relaxed the rules in the early 1970s...  In 1973 when the world was going mad with high inflation and the fuel crisis. I'd saved up some money from Christmas and my birthday, and went to my LCS, the late-lamented Coins of Canterbury, and asked if they had any gold sovereigns. I had just enough money to buy their cheapest one, for the princely sum of eight pounds. It was far more than I had ever spent on a coin before! Just think, with that amount of money I could have bought three full-price pop LPs, 16 pop singles or 200 Mars bars - my favorite candy of the time! Here it is:   It was six years before I could afford another gold coin, and by then sovereigns were over £20...  Edited by NumisRob
12/30/2020 2:57 pm
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United States
1156 Posts |
My collecting area is exclusively silver crowns with the exception of my modern set of coins depicting the sport of fencing.  Edited by jgenn
12/31/2020 03:25 am
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United States
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United States
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Does it count if I owned it for like, 12 hours?   |
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United States
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Fun idea for a thread, and some neat stories. The first gold coin I ever collected was this fannam from the Indian state of Mysore. Purchsed in the mid-1970s for a few dollars, sold in 2012 when I started rationalizing my world coin collection:   The next one I purchased was over 20 years later, and it is still in my collection, a florin minted in Buda in the mid-1300s during the reign of Lajos/Louis I of Hungary (and it cost more than a few dollars  :   Edited by tdziemia
12/31/2020 08:58 am
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United States
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My first gold coin was a modern coin.   |
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Valued Member
Korea, Republic Of
489 Posts |
All of these coins are beautiful and like someone pointed out, the stories are so much fun to read.
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Sweden
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I began collecting Swedish coins (then moved over to French coins), so my first gold coin is this 20 kronor from 1873, the year of the mint reform that replaced riksdaler with kronor and introduced the gold standard.   |
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