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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm another centennial man, but it was a 1976 quarter.
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Canada
1051 Posts |
d23, yes and no. I do own a couple examples, but not my ultimate LB...a gem BU coin.
It's one of those coins that keeps me motivated.
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Canada
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Ithink for me it was a mix of 3 or 4 coin events, I have told parts of this before, but for what its worth, my parents had a somewhat resort hotel on lake Erie in Canada. My mother hoarded 50 cent pieces[this was 1966 app]we got to stack them in 10s for her to roll when she cashed them in it was a 5 gallon milk jug pretty much full.The other coins saved from the cash out were 20 25 Morgans and Peace dollars that a patron paid his tab with,I still have those, Have'nt looked at them in 35 years. I started collecting around then lost interest and started back again recently it does get in your blood. |
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United States
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My grandparents gave me the first USA Lincoln Cent Whitman album when I was about 7 or 8, so I pretty much started at the bottom and worked my way up (but I still have an affinity for wheat cents and any bronze coins). I'm sure I still have my first wheat cents extracted from a fistful out of my mother's purse, but I couldn't tell you which ones they were. I can tell you, though, that I pretty much abandoned stamp collecting for coin collecting, and although for many years I wasn't very active - not until about 4 years ago, anyway - I kept filling in those holes in the Lincoln Cent albums! |
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Canada
632 Posts |
1996 Twoonie Piedfort Proof
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Canada
480 Posts |
I found a 1929 Canadian Cent under the lake surface with my toes off the beach at Osoyoos in the BC Okanogan when I was about 8 or 9. Later I found a 1068-1076 Northern Sung Chinese cash coin in a dealers junk box for 25 cents (took 2 hours to find in a book), and I was given a Velveeta Cheese box filled with Chinese coins. I was also given a Ching Dynasty coin which took me an hour to find. All of these were instrumental in my pursuing the hobby.
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 Australia
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I remember going to a coin-and-stamp show when I was an eight year old stamp collector, and being more interested in the coins than the stamps. When my parents saw my interest, they gave me most of their "hoard", including the coins they'd souvenired from their time living in Canada in the early 1970's. They had two "special coins" they'd kept, a 50¢ and a $1. I got to pick which one I wanted, and my brother would be given the other one. Naturally, I picked the $1, a 1971 British Columbia nickel dollar. What I didn't know at the time, of course, was that a 50¢ coin from 1950 was silver, and worth much more than the dollar. It was the first of several numismatic lessons my brother taught me the hard way: the higher denomination coin isn't always the most valuable. I still have the dollar; it's one of the first coins (though not quite the first) in my collection. I also have the 50¢ now as well; my brother gave up coin collecting in his teens to concentrate on his stamp collection.   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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United States
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When I was in 1st grade my Mom went to Austria for a week. Being in the Soviet Union this was a huge deal for the whole family. My Mom brought back a lot of "interesting stuff", unusual to us, including napkins with print and sweetener packets. But I was drawn to a single coin she brought, 10 groschen (extremely common, now I know, there's tons in every bargain bowl). I've been stashing it for years, till I "came out of the closet" in high school. I showed it off to my classmates and was showered with a bunch of other coins my friends gave me, just like that.
Still have it!
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Valued Member
United States
220 Posts |
A gift of 2002 American Silver Eagle. Then I started to collect coins when I was 30. (I collected stamps when I was a boy.)
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Canada
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 In 1969, at the age of 8 years old and living in Montreal,Canada, I received a worn out quarter in my change. The quarter was silver and had a depiction of a King's bust on it. Now that I know coins, it was an old worn out Edwardian series with the date worn beyond recognition. I tucked the coin in my pocket and kept it with me for several days. Each and every time I would view this coin, I wondered how many other kids my age used it during their time and what they purchased with it. I was always fascinated with time since I was old enough to realize it. In the 1970's is when I dabbled in collecting and my first coin ever was a 1935 silver dollar. I still, to this day, remember the mind blowing lustre the coin had that is the catalyst for all the others that make it into my collection to this day! Now that I'm 48 years young and consider myself an advanced collector of Canadian business strikes from 1858-1967, collecting is truly one of the loves of my life! Glenn |
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Canada
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SAP, your 1950 cents appears to be the one without design in the zero... that is the good one...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Glenzy, my first "real" coin was a 1935 dollar as well. I remember it cost a staggering $60, which was about 3 months wages for me at the time lol
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