1st coin collections?

Melmcbee

What was your first coin collecting interest and why? Did you complete the set? Thanks in advance.

Purple73

Statehood quarters....nope not completed yet. Because My GF at the time wanted me to set up a set for each of her kids. It got me hooked. Then I found this site. I saw FC57coins and his frankies and got interested in those...working on that set now.

DNADave

Mercury dimes, Traded two ounces of gold (eagles) and $100 for a G6 16-D back when gold was $280.00 per ounce. Still have the set.

ddbird

SL quarter...got two out of the whole set, and quite. Moved on to random coins, a few morgans, peace, and others. I got almost a complete set of frankies from my grandfather...I still have that. But most my collection is now morgan toners, with a few nice examples from other series.

LindeDad

Brown box Ike's still have them. Played poker all weekend in the Milatary and bought the whole set with my winnings. It was about the best outing I ever had at tables.

D

Frankies in VF-XF condition, I've almost got a full set in MS64+ now and once I finish I think I'll move onto collecting comms and 2.50 Indians.

-Daniel

MrSpud

My older brother encouraged me to collect coins when I was a little kid. I started off collecting lincolns for a Whitman folder. I still have the set. Actually, I transferred the coins to a better album and I am still completing it. I just bought a handful of circulated 20's and 30's to fill in some of the holes just yesterday.

Shamika

My grandparents gave me a jar full of wheaties (Lincoln cents that is) 31 years ago. I still haven't finished the set.

coincollector1989

Mine was a few wheats that I found in change, I never finsihed them, I found the Kennedy and became hooked on that series.

nwcs

When I was a kid, it was morgans. But I couldn't afford them and YN things were non existent. So I spent a lot of time raiding bank rolls for old nickels.

Purple73

Not trying to insinuate anything Stacy but if you and Russ or you and Marty got together There wouldn't be any kennedies left on the planet. LOL

Spiffy469

Circ set of lincolns 1909-present.

Down to 3 or 4 of the key dates, but i'm currently pursuing other circ sets, and proof kennedys.

jeff

Baley

Hi Melanie,
My first interest in coins jr. high school was a type set, at first 20th century (the barber coins are the keys) then I moved back to get like a 2 and 3 cent piece from my local coin shop that my dad would drive me to on a saturday morning and let me spend an hour or two looking around, I'd always dreamed of having some of the really old (150+ year old) coins that I read about in the Red Book, then my dad took me to the San Jose coin show and I bought a certain 1835 half cent and it cost me three or four week's allowance and grass cutting money but boy was i proud of my "half cent" coin and it was my best classic head half cent until just a couple of years ago and I upgraded, well I'm 37 now and am happy to pass along the coin to a younger collector, my type set continues to make me very happy and now I even have 1795 coins and gold ones, but it all started with those early type coins..

mrearlygold

I "helped" my older brother out one day when I was home sick from school. I took a pencil eraser to his complete lincoln and indian cent collections to "clean them up" for him. I think I was about 5 or 6 years old. Boy oh boy did I get it when he got home


Later on I found an 1833 dime, last 3 high in pocket change, around 1969. I brought it into the Garwood Coin Shop in Garwood NJ and the owner offered me 100 bucks for it. I became so intrigued I started collecting and yes on of my favorite coins are 1833 dimes.

Tom

Hedger

I still have my partial with semi key date Lincoln wheat cent collection. I get them out and stare at them time to time.

carl

I first became interested in coin collecting when an Aunt gave me a handful of Milles used for taxes in Missiuri, or however you spell that state, way back in the 40's. I still have them. Some are plastic and some are metal. Some are for 1/10th cent and some are 1/2 cent. Then as I got older I fell in love with those 1943 Steel Lincoln Cents and hoarded thousands. I still have those also. Like all kids then graduated to the Lincoln Cents in the Whitman folders and now working on set #11.

Jody526

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I was given a nickel, nearly 40 years ago, that had a big "P" on the back. I thought it was absolutely fascinating.

I have been collecting Jefferson nickels ever since. I've completed many date/mintmark sets, and am always working on the next one.

Darkhorse

Canadian large cents.

Nic

A set of AU Peace $'s 1st as I bumped into a key early. Never finished it. Next unc. commems .... I've since had several complete sets . I've always loved type and I will never be able to finish my current set, which believe it or not, makes me happy . K

cladking

Buffalo nickels.

It was more than half way completed from circulation and the set was finished
in the 1960's by purchases from mail order companies. Some of the coins were
very low grade but there was a VF '13-S t II.

mirabela

I started collecting when I was seven or eight years old; I inherited a box of 88 individually enveloped & catalogued Morgan dollars from my great grandfather. Wow... I've still got them. Some nice coins in there. But the Morgan set seemed very out of reach (still does) so I looked for something else to work on. First set I really got deliberate about was Mercury dimes. Got all but three including of course the 16-D by the time I got out of high school. Forgot about them for years... Last year I bought a very nice 16-D which is a cut above the rest of the set, leaving me plenty of room for upgrades of the others without wishing I had a better one of the key. Thought I'd finally finished the set when I got the missing 23-S and 30-S. Then, one day, I noticed that in the place where I ought to have a 19-D, what have I got? An *extra* 21-D! No kidding! G-6 or so. Not bad! So, I'm still looking for just the right XF-ish 19-D but there aren't many nice ones around. Also, someday I suppose I'll pick up the 42/1 overdates, but no rush.

The real project, of late, is a type set. Where it's possible, nice AU or MS; where it isn't, I'm open to any circulated grade so long as the individual coin is nice to look at.

Jdurg

First 'coins' I ever really saw were old ones my dad had when I was 7 or 8 years old. I was amazed at how they didn't look like the coins that I'd get in change at the time, and even more amazed that they were made out of silver. If I remember, he had some morgan dollars, some peace dollars, silver dimes, walking liberty halves, etc. etc. He also had/has a whole lot of currency from around the world which he picked up while on the submarines. As a kid, I remember one day cleaning all the silver coins so they'd look really nice for him. I got my butt smacked for that and grounded for a while. Oops. Since then, I seem to be a magnet for finding 'cleaned' coins. Kind of strange really. A while back I wanted to get a complete set of all 'modern crap'; that is, any coins currently in circulation. I haven't completed any of that yet. lol. The only fully complete set is my birthyear set of 1980. Otherwise I'm ALMOST done with my Roosevelt Dimes. I just need the 1950-1952 proofs and I'm completely done with that one. I'm working on a precentennial set of all 1880 minted coins, but that one will take a lot of time and a lot of money to complete due to proofs and some rare coins. My next set might be the jefferson nickel set.

gamer1958

Started out with FEs and IHCs in the late 60s--impossible set for a little kid to attempt, the 1864-L and 08 and 09 s-mints were forever out of reach, plus there was this huge hole from about 1866-1879...(I just pretended that the 1856 FE did not exist--1000 struck? come on!)
I got the 1885 in fine and a really beat-up 1865 and gave up thereafter, but I do still have them in a 30 year-old dansco, just waiting for me to pick up the hunt again...

Last set I did complete was 98% done from circulation--Jeffersons; it helped that I worked in a pharmacy and the owner let me go thru the register. The 50-D took a long time, but eventually came across one (took 18 months); I had to purchase a couple of the silvers, and maybe a couple others. This was back in 1977-78 or so...

09sVDB

Lincoln Cents. My Grandmother got me started.

Steve27

Mercury Dimes, I started as a kid, but I'm still one short.

mtnman

Started with Lincolns. Have the complete set with the exception of the double die.