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I just found the first coin book I ever bought

K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭
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We have been packing up to vacate this house next Sunday. It suffered irreparable damage due to Hurricane Isabel, and a new one is being built. I have been finding all sorts of things I forgot I had, including a lot of coins and numismatic publications. I just found Brown and Dunn's Sixth Edition of Grading United States Coins. When I was a kid, I put my name and date inside every book. I bought this book in July of 1977. From when I first started collecting up until 1977, most of what I bought were circulated Lincoln Cents, Buffalo nickels, and Mercury Dimes. Looking back, I learned a lot from this book.

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  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    image Cool image First coin book I ever bought was a 2001 Spiral Bound Red Book... image First coin was a 1909-D Barber Quarter in G4... still have both, and still enjoy both... image
    -George
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    It's definately nice to reminisce, especially when we were YNs.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭
    If I remember correctly, I bought a redbook shortly after the Brown and Dunn book but I haven't found it yet, and it may have become lost over the years. I still have the first coin I bought in 1971 as a seven year old kid, an AU 1909 VDB Lincoln.
  • K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭


    << <i>It's definately nice to reminisce, especially when we were YNs.image >>



    How true, once a bright and cheerful YN and now just a mean old grump. image

    I recently came across another coin I bought during the mid 70s, a borderline Unc red and brown 35-D Lincoln. I donated that to Frattlaw's YN contest, so now it will once again be in a YNs collection.
  • BigAlBigAl Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭

    I "discovered" my first coin book about 2 yrs ago....

    Also dated on the inside cover, "Christmas 1978". With a note from my grandmother which reads: "Dear Al, to help you know your coin collection better"

    A 1979 Red Book.
    image
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭


    << <i>I "discovered" my first coin book about 2 yrs ago....

    Also dated on the inside cover, "Christmas 1978". With a note from my grandmother which reads: "Dear Al, to help you know your coin collection better"

    A 1979 Red Book.
    image >>

    Would that be when "BigAl" was just "LilAl"?
    -George
    42/92
  • richbeatrichbeat Posts: 2,288 ✭
    BigAl:

    What a coincidence! The '79 red book was my first coin book also! image
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    I still have my first book. Its called "Getting Started In Coin Collecting" published in 1970.
  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    My heavily worn Photograde is back in NJ, where I used it as a young-un.
    "The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."

    William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night

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