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Pillar of the Community
United States
1327 Posts |
what was the first coin set you started with when you first started collecting. and did you finish your set. My fisrt set is a new one it is the State Quarter set. it is finish up to date. I have not been collecting long. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
Lincoln Cents.
No, I haven't.
Being a retired teacher, I don't know that I will ever be able to afford the keys, especially 1909 S VDB.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1079 Posts |
My first coins given to me were German.
Amongst them were two nazi coins.
They facinated me so I decided to complete the set. I know have several sets.
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 Australia
16826 Posts |
I didn't start out with a "set", as such. The first coins that I ever paid money for (as opposed to being given by my parents) were some foreign brass coins in a dealer's scratchtray - we've never had brass-coloured coins in circulation here, and they fascinated me (I was 9 years old at the time). Maybe I thought they might be gold!  That started me on "Darkside" coins. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
438 Posts |
Oww my first attempt at a set was an 1887 date set (Victorian Jubilee Year), Gold sovereign down to tiny silver threepence. I never completed it, I was two coins short before I sold it off (the sovereign and the Double Florin with a Roman I in the date were all in needed). But I decided to refocus and collect sovereigns at the time so it didn't get finished. (Neither did the sovereign set which was sold when I refocused onto sixpences, funnily enough neither did that set either...).
16 years as a collector and I've never finished a set yet.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
772 Posts |
Lincoln Wheats. A couple of old whitmans were passed to me (maybe 30 common dates)
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
1205 Posts |
There was this coin that started me collecting. It was the time we were on our way to Turkey and I had a 1 Bulgarian Lev. It was something I had found from circulation but it had a different reverse a commemorative. I was 8 then and I lost it while moving here and there. Had seen one when I was in BG in 93 but couldn't lay my hands on it. Still don't have that one in my collection.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2271 Posts |
Buffalo nickels.
My older brother collected Lincolns and I figured I'd never see a good one of them and my father allowed us to have coins for our collections and I figured five cents was more than one cent. This was 1957 and it was already too late to make a collection from change since the coins were picked over and the dates were worn off most of the early issues. I started buying coins for the set in the early '60's and finished it by 1965. It wasn't long before my interests turned to more mundane things and the set was sold to raise capital. I probably made about $5 on the coins and was the only one in the area who actually had a profit.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
A Mercury dime started me out, But lincoln cents were my first set,I have completed 2 full sets, and am working on a third ,,each set a little better as my means increased,,My first Love !!! and still facinating to me !!! Presently putting together proof Lincolns and full band Mercs,as the opportunity arises !! Proof and MS Roosevelts (Silver Issue) only a few coins away from completion !!! US Minted Aussie coins , US minted phillipine issues as well. ASE's and select date and Grade walkers. a small but growing Morgan dollar collection of the New Orleans Mint all MS-63 and above. State Quarters 2 collections for my Grand Kids,, and now I need to start a third !!! I have many Misc. coins , commems, and silver rounds and bars,, Proof sets and mint sets but I dont consider them a collection since most are bought to cut or break for my other collections. Rick Edited by Metalman
02/27/2006 12:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1203 Posts |
Like metalman, my starting point was the Mercury dimes. They were very common and you could find brand new ones just out of the mint at Denver any place around town. Collected them by the roll rather than the single coins. Later on I was able to trade some of the "D" for the missing coins not from Denver. It took about 10 years, but was able to complete the entire set some time after returning home in 1946. Over the years I ended up with three complete sets and two of them were MS and Proof coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
867 Posts |
The first set I started was Morgan dollars, still haven't finished that one! Anyone got a spare 1895 laying around?  The only set I've actually finished to date is the 1999-2004 State Quarter book! Rachel [:p] |
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United States
218 Posts |
lincoln cents was where I started. I am still short one coin, so the end is in sight...
I have completed a number of sets since then, but that was the first.
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Rest in Peace
United States
2884 Posts |
Good old Lincolns! Mike  |
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Australia
1091 Posts |
My older brother collected coins when we were both kids. We checked thru dad's change and my brother worked out what was worth keeping. I was very young. But I remember the excitement of going to the grocery store and getting a Silver Morgan dollar as change in the 1950's. The shop keeper had two more in his drawer so my brother and I ran home (about a mile) to ask permission and for the two dollars to get the other Morgan dollars. Then we ran back to the shop and got them, straight dollar for dollar. We all grow up and put away childish things and so it was with my collecting coins. But in the early eighties, at a family reunion my brother gave me one of those Morgan dollars that we collected as kids. It sparked my adult interest in coin collecting. Always remember....It is never too late to have a happy childhood. |
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Valued Member
Australia
281 Posts |
About ten years ago I had a five cent coin collection that I entered into a competition at the local show. It had two of most coins and a blurb about each five cent piece.
Best thing about entering was I won! By default sur, but I won. I got a 1995 Australian stamps collection folder, valued at $50 at the time (which is alot for a ten year old), but I have since misplaced the coins.
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Valued Member
United States
346 Posts |
im actually doing 4 sets at once. a Memorial cent set a 1965 to date dime set a State Quarter set but my favorite of all my 20th century type set. I havent completed any but I'm close. my first coin was a 2 and 1/2 gulden from the netherlands and I still have it :-) |
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