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I thought it would be interesting to see and hear what coin got you started in this hobby. Regrettably I don't have mine to show in a photograph but it was simply a 1999s proof 70 dcam Connecticut silver quarter that a friend recommended to get me into the state quarters. What's your story?
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Probably this Cal Gold quarter with the tiny leather pouch I bought as a kid. The pouch will hold a gold dollar and the quarter is holed, but I just thought it was cool. I posted this in 2018.
This was old coin #1 for me. I remember having this in Kindergarten!
Too long ago.... Although I still have some coins that have been with me for over 50 years...Cheers, RickO
I've been collecting coins from pocket change since I was a little kid but I bought my first real coin in 1965 when I bought a BU $20 Saint Gaudens double eagle from an ad in the back of Coin World for $47. It was a 1927 and would grade today as a MS63. I bought a Capital holder to protect my newly bought treasure. I mowed a lot of lawns and saved my allowance for a long time to buy that coin. I sold it later with some other coins to buy a car. I sure wish I still had it.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Not the first coin I ever collected but a scarce coin I pulled from a roll in the late sixties. Sure I could upgrade it. But I choose to keep it in my raw Capitol Plastics holder as a reminder.
My first coins were pocket change put into Whitman folders in the early ‘60s. I’m sure “lost” to history by now.
There is still a VF 1832 half from Grandma in the set. 😃
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
Four 1959 Lincoln Memorial cents. My mother was working at a bank that was handing out the "new penny" as a promotional gimmick. I was hooked! I still have them.
Mine is a 3 pc bicentennial proof set. I still have it
That's lost in the mists of antiquity for me.
My first coin is this 1941-P wheat penny:
I found this in my mom’s change back in 2002. She had taken me to the doctor that day, and in the waiting room there was one of those coin donation collection boxes where you put the coin in and it goes through all sorts of chutes and spirals before ending up at the bottom. I asked her for some change to put in it, and this coin was among the change she gave me. At that point in my life (6 years old), it was the oldest coin I had ever seen, and I was fascinated by the wheat ears on the reverse. Needless to say, I kept it, and the rest is history.
My first coin was a 1931 S UNC Lincoln cent.
That would be back in 62.
I have no idea what the first one I collected was but the first I remember buying was when I was 8 at the 1982 worlds fair. It was the 1982 Hungarian mint set. I liked the designs. Have no idea what ended up happening to it.
Got an interesting call from a grade school aged grandson telling me he just started collecting coins. Because of this thread I asked him what was the first coin he collected. Proudly he showed me on FaceTime a 1963 Lincoln cent. He then informed me it was the oldest coin he found.
He was also excited to show me the 13 State Quarters he had collected so far letting me know which ones were his favorites and adding that it was his goal to collect all 50.
My son got me started in the hobby when he showed me some coins he bought in slabs. Then I bought my first collectible coin. Now I am a coin addict.
I attended that in Knoxville, TN.
A long time ago! My understanding is that while it wasn’t a super profitable worlds fair it actually was the last to break even. Of course immortalized forever by The Simpsons!
While I had a number of coins given to me during my younger years, my first serious purchase and THE coin that started me down the Charlotte highway is this 1849-C Half Eagle. As a young USAF NCO, I had recently arrived at Monterrey, CA and it wasn't long before I visited a rather interesting & jovial dealer who had a small antique and coin shop in nearby Pacific Grove. He had this coin in a plastic flip, graded as "VF" for $500. I liked and bought it - little did I know then the interest it would ignite.
This used to sit on a tray in my grandmother’s bedroom that held perfume. She gave it to me when I was about 7 or 8 after noticing I took an interest in it. She told me she had recently received it in change and it was what dimes used to look like when she was younger. I tried to improve it with silver polish when I was in middle school, which turned a somewhat ugly Mercury dime into an uglier one. I spent many hours admiring this coin as a kid and it was the catalyst for all future interest in coins.
I got my first coin at a Rose Bowl flea market. My Dad @Rob9874 got me a 1909 Lincoln cent.