My very first coin

ER

.......was a colorized (not toned, COLORIZED) year 2000 SAE.
What was yours?

itsnotjustme

Your first coin was only 4 years ago, and you collect early dollars? You moved quick!

Mine was a wheat cent.

First coin worth more than a couple bucks was a 1876 seated dime in XF I bought from a guy who bought and sold scrap silver. Paid $1 for it.

magikbilly

Hi,
well, I recall the first 3. 1892 Barber 10c & 1894 Barber 25c both in what I think was called at the time "Almost Good" - no numerical scale! (look at my new Barber 10c in my set - makes up for the AG-3 )- these were my first purchases. It was important I recall to for me to see the "18" in the date! Then, I wanted to go further back so I wandered into my local coin shop and my Dad gave me $12 for a "Fine" 1781 North American Token, which I actually thought was from 1781

Well, those were my first purchases.

Best,
Billy

Cladiator

My first coin was a 1999 Canadian Silver Maple Leaf. How I went from bulk foreign bullion to my cappers is a long and twisted tale

TayTay

a '76 Proof Kennedy bought at a small show in 1977 or 1978, when I was 12 or 13. Still have it, will never get rid of it.

F117ASR

some wheat cents and a bunch of kennedies.

mgoodm3

a 1943P nickel found in change when I was about 8. I wonder if it was planted by my dad.

Artist

My Dad gave me a little 1950's metal pirate chest filled with a dozen silver dollars that his Dad won in Vegas, along with every interesting coin he ever pulled from circulation as a kid. Along with a few well-worn Indians, Buffalos, and Walkers, this included a 1905 nickel, and 1905-S Dime (both AG) and a Long Island half. Boy those silver dollars looked good once we got done with the silver polish!!!! Doh!!!

The first coin I ever bought from a coin shop was an 1822 large cent VG-F.

I still have all of the above for sentimental reasons, though now I mostly enjoy collecting unc early 20th century type.

DesertRat

1909 Wheat Cent....can't remember what variety it was since I was only 6 at the time. I really wish I could find that coin...I never threw it away or sold it I guess it just got lost in the shuffle of the years.

MFH

The first coin I ever bought was from Jack Stone in Boston: a 1931-S Lincoln Cent in VF. I remember paying $18.00 for it back in 1962. It "disappeared" out of my Whitman Bookshelf album when I brought my set to a local coin club. I knew which kid took it, but couldn't prove it. I never went back to that club.

I replaced that coin with a mint state red example ( has since turned brown/red ) a few years later, also from Jack Stone. That was about 1968 and cost me $80.00 then.

Back then, most coins I collected came out of circulation ( "roll finds" ). I didn't start buying coins on a regular basis until I started collecting Barber Halves in college.

paigowjohnny

I don't remember my first coin overall. My first Morgan, a 1900-O, was won in a coin club raffle back when I was a teenager. I still have it, and after 20 years of gnawing at me, it was my inspiration to get back in to collecting and work on Morgans.

Tassa

An XF 1879-S Morgan.

TommyType

I'm a latecomer to coins. Like most people, I had a few wheats and other odds and ends pulled from circulation. The kind of thing you save "just because", not because I had any interest in collecting.

Then, in about 1996 at the age of 33, I saw a 1963 Franklin half-dollar in a cabinet in a little hobby shop. I was so ignorant of US coinage that I didn't even know the Franklin half existed! Add to the fact that it was my birth year, and I plunked down the few dollars to buy it. 1963 Franklin half-dollar, probably AU.

That got me running. Although it's been "upgraded" several times, I still have it in some folder somewhere.

coinlieutenant

A raw Proof 1865 seated dime...

12 years later it was a PCGS proof 64 seated dime.