One of the coins that got me into coin collecting; tell/ show me yours

mikee999

TomB

From the obverse image that looks darn nice for an MS65.

retirednow

Mine

My Uncle Tom gave this to me when I was 7 or so back in the mid 50's ... he collected coins but this was the 1st he gave me. - It got me interested in copper pennies.
The back story as I recall, my uncle as a boy would deliver dairy products (like mike & eggs) from my Grandparents farm during the depression, when one the neighbors could not pay, he just asked if they and any lose old coins ... she had a couple of old large cents and that was fine for payment.

spyglassdesign

This trade dollar is the one that really got me interested in learning to grade and collect a few coins here and there. I don't collect any particular coin but have really come around to loving the capped bust halves and trade dollars.

Tramp

For me it wasn't just one coin. In January 2015, I came across a sale on eBay for a Dansco 8100 Lincoln cent album that contained all RED uncirculated Lincolns from 1935 through 2012, including proofs starting with 1968-S. This played into my Lincoln cent collection I still owned from the '70s. That kick started me back into collecting again after being away for over 33 years.

ricko

For me, it was an IHC received in change back in 1950....My Mom showed it to me and I was hooked.... That cent is long gone, but the addiction remains.... Cheers, RickO

jacrispies

@retirednow said:
Mine

My Uncle Tom gave this to me when I was 7 or so back in the mid 50's ... he collected coins but this was the 1st he gave me. - It got me interested in copper pennies.
The back story as I recall, my uncle as a boy would deliver dairy products (like mike & eggs) from my Grandparents farm during the depression, when one the neighbors could not pay, he just asked if they and any lose old coins ... she had a couple of old large cents and that was fine for payment.

Your coin is also a brothel token. The E in CENT has been altered to look like a potty word. It is a crude example but it definitely is there!

retirednow

!> @jacrispies said:

Your coin is also a brothel token. The E in CENT has been altered to look like a potty word. It is a crude example but it definitely is there!

I learned something new ... I had not read this in any articles before .... Google did point me to a couple of articles ... I will check the Numismatist archives later ,,, if only this coin could talk.

I now wonder if my Uncle told me the Real Story behind this piece ... oh well

SanctionII

These two helped me get into collecting as a 7 year old YN in 1963.

This 1882 S Morgan silver dollar was obtained by my parents in 1962 from a bank. They eventually gave it to me. Last year it graded MS65+.

This 1943 D silver Jefferson nickel was one of two MS examples of this coin given to me in 1963 by the father of a classmate of mine. The father collected coins and when he learned that I started collecting he gave me two of these coins as a gift. When I received them they were "Ricko approved" blast white. I took them and placed them into a Whitman blue tri fold holder for Jefferson nickels dated from 1938 to 1961. They stay in the Whitman folder for over 45 years. When I took them out they both had developed toning. I submitted one of them for grading last year and it graded MS66.

So, with the above story about this nickel, is the coin AT or NT?

I did intentionally place the blast white coin into a Whitman folder,................... so under certain points of view this coin is definitely AT (and should be avoided at all costs ).

Manifest_Destiny

I no longer have it but a 1917 dime my dad got in change about 50 years ago. It was probably G-VG. From there I completed a Mercury dime set as a kid, including a G-VG 16-D for $150.

jacrispies

My first bust half that sparked the fever.

johnny9434

I'd love to see the reverse of that 39 s Jefferson someday

emeraldATV

There was one coin that I do very much miss. This coin catapulted me into the many ways of collecting.
The camera I bought to photograph or document the coin's beauty also has to be addressed as half the battle for the view.
The coin was not in demand as a high end or sought after coin. I guess chalk it up to beauty is in the eye of the collector.

DNADave

@mikee999 said:

Does that holder have the shell around it?

OAKSTAR

@emeraldATV said:
There was one coin that I do very much miss. This coin catapulted me into the many ways of collecting.
The camera I bought to photograph or document the coin's beauty also has to be addressed as half the battle for the view.
The coin was not in demand as a high end or sought after coin. I guess chalk it up to beauty is in the eye of the collector.

emeraldATV

MMMMMM...Pilot Whale ? ................................................

Zach98

My Great Aunt Gave me this CC Morgan along with several other more common ones. Learning about the Carson City mint really inspired me. I did a project on that mint in 6th/7th grade. My aunt lived a full life. She was born on 12/7/1921, so she was 20 when Pearl Harbor happed. She past 2 years ago at age 99. She always told me a story about saving up nickels to buy a washing machine in WW2

Joe_360

Wheaties:

mikee999

@Joe_360 said:
Wheaties:

I remember paying something like $135 for one off a bid board at a coin shop in the 1960s. My parents almost killed me for it. I had saved up the money delivering newspapers.

OAKSTAR

@emeraldATV said:
MMMMMM...Pilot Whale ? ................................................

You had it upside down. I fixed it for you.

GaCoinGuy

For me, it was an 1859 IHC that I received in change as a dime...very well beat up and probably cleaned at some point, but I still have it.

AUandAG

Like most kids, I started with change off Dad's dresser. Then change from chores and paper route. My first purchase at more than face value were 25 sets of these. I was convinced by the coin shop in Redwood City to get them as they will surely be worth much, much more down the road. I paid 25¢ for each set and dang that was a lot of money for me. I still am waiting for the price increase.... lol
bob

mikee999

@AUandAG said:
Like most kids, I started with change off Dad's dresser. Then change from chores and paper route. My first purchase at more than face value were 25 sets of these. I was convinced by the coin shop in Redwood City to get them as they will surely be worth much, much more down the road. I paid 25¢ for each set and dang that was a lot of money for me. I still am waiting for the price increase.... lol
bob

sorry to tell you both 1960-D are large dates.
below is an image of a small date:

DoctorPaper

By 1972 I had been been been accumulating various coins randomly and without true focus. I went to a local shop that had a bid board and saw the coin below hanging on the wall. I had never dreamed of owning a US coin from the 1700’s, but felt the urge to try, and so bid the minimum reserve, which at the time for me was a stratospheric $40. Lo and behold, no one else bid and the coin was mine. Trying to grade and identify it introduced me to William Sheldon’s “Penny Whimsey” and the concept of identifying old copper coins by die marriages. When the coin turned out to be a Sheldon-66, at the time an R6 rarity, I was hooked, and started a lifetime quest to collect federal coppers by Sheldon and Cohen number, as well as a variety of colonial coins by die type.