What Was The First "Real" Coin That You Acquired?

My grandfather was an avid coin collector and had a vast collection displayed in his "coin room". I used to spend hours wondering around his coin room in awe of the coins he had displayed as a young boy (around nine or ten years old). Every now and then he would give me a bright and shiny penny and I would put then in the whitman album he gave me. He told me once that I could get rolls of pennies at the bank and sometimes find old coins. the first time I bought a roll of pennies to search I found a 1931-S, probably EF, as I remember it had very good details. I could not wait to show my grandfather my find and thought that if I cleaned it up a bit it would look real nice, so I polished it with Brasso !. the Next time we went to visit my grandparents, I showed him the coin. Boy did I learn a lesson that day! He gently explained the error of my ways and my pursuit of coin knowledge started that day. He gave me a nice 1931-S to replaced my ruined one that day and I still have it. the memories of him come flooding back every time I look at that coin.

First coin? AHHH, yes I rememeber it well. It was back about 40BC and it was a coin with J. Caesar on it dated 47BC. I think it was a 10 something or other. Given to me by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Been coin collecting ever since.
In reality my Dad started me on coin collecting in 1943. He wasn't a coin collector at all but when he saw those brand new shinny, Silver colored pennies that just came out he brought some home for me. They sure were fun to see them stick to a magnet. I too liked them and started save as many as he gave me. Eventually it added up to about 35 rolls. Still have every one. Now in plastic rolls taped shut.

My "first coins" were stolen years ago--hence no pics.

I was a waitress forever and customers would give me foreign coins and notes they had no use for. I just thought they were cool and pretty, kept them in a carved wooden box. My treasure chest I guess.
I don't know if it was the first but a Norwegian 25 ore was my favorite. (probably for no better reason than it had a hole in it!)
I recently picked up a 1926 Noway krone. First official purchase. I've already learned enough about the coins and the history to get addicted. I have about 300 coins from all over but I'm going to focus on the Norwegian sets first and see how it goes from there.

And before anyone asks, no, I don't just toss them all into a box anymore :)

Coin room! Was this like a walk in vault. Sounds

CuprousCoin- That is kind of the sad truth of all great coin collections: they eventually are broken up. In many ways all great coin collections are part of a cycle of death and rebirth. In fact, a major tenet of many belief systems is that something is destroyed in order for other things to be able to be created. This is so true in the world of numismatics with regard to collections as well as the actual materials which coins are made from: many Morgan dollars are made of silver from melted pieces of 8, and as I write this lots of junk silver all over the world is being melted in order for modern bullion coins to come into existence.