Do you still have your very first coin?

xphobe

Here's mine. I remember the exact setting like it was yesterday.

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The year was 1965. Clad coins had just come out and something in my 8-year-old brain told me to start saving any kind of silver. We were in gym class trying to avoid the coaches' attention so we wouldn't have to participate in strenuous physical activity. I traded a fellow nerd two pencils for this.

TwoKopeiki

You traded for 2 small boxes with red "X"'s in the middle?

IlikeZARcoins

Dutch !! I like......

I have mine. When I was a child growing up in Holland we frequently took holidays to foreign destinations such as Germany, Austria & Spain etc.

I took home loads of foreign coins - I still have a large biscuit tin full of them in Holland although to be honest I don't know which coin was the very first I kept. I have some business in Germany over the next while and as long as that doesn't interfer I should be heading to Holland at the end of August. That is when I'll bring the tin back to Ireland.

I couldn't ask my mother to bring the tin to Ireland as she'd never lift it.

Anyhow - I'll have a load of foreign coins to sell soon.

lordmarcovan

1965, eh? That was a good year.

My first collector coin came along in 1976, when I was ten and a half. VG 1936 Mercury dime.

And yes, I still have it.

Gazza

I don't remember my 1st coin probably because I started with a handfull. I was doing a paper round so I must have been about 15 at the time and I would get my £1, 2/6 wages on a saturday morning and go into the bank nextdoor to get a £1 bag of 1/2d, 1d ,3d that sort of thing and pull all of the dates out that I needed, make up the difference and go and change the bag for another. I'd carry on like this until I could no longer make the £1 up again This was about 1969 when the banks still opened on a saturday morning. The 1st coins I remember being brought was whilst I was in hospital, it was a 1st decimal set which I still have somewhere.

coinandcurrency242

Whats interesting is I got a bunch of world coins. My Grandpa when I was little gave me a treasure chest full of coins and he said he stole it from pirates who were digging in his backyard. As a little kid, I was very amused by this.

koincollect

The Dutch Guilder was my second coin (had two of them) !! It is still with me along with my very first coin a Kennedy half! Still love the looks of them.

MrEureka

I don't have any coins from my first 25 years as a collector, nor - amazingly - do I need any of them back for my current collecting projects.

TheKidCollector1991

Sure do!
I got mine A blank Planchet, from India.

TKC!

RedTiger

I still do, a $2 flamingo coin from the Bahamas.

SYRACUSIAN

The first coin for which I actually paid ($90) to obtain it and the real starting coin for a serious collection later:





Not only I still have it,I haven't even been able to locate a true mint state example ever again. Bought in 1990, later slabbed by Anacs as MS62.

lordmarcovan

Funny... I just remembered something... a couple of years before I found that 1936 Mercury dime that started me collecting, I had another coin I had kept... a Darkside coin... it seemed really old to me because it was dated 1949... it was a Polish grosz, as I recall. And my buddy at the time (this would've been around fourth or fifth grade) had a US silver three-cent piece!

Sapyx

My first coins I bought from a dealer's scratchtray as an 8-year-old at a stamp & coin show, sometime around 1980. I don't remember precisely which ones most of them were, and a few have most likely been upgraded since. But I know this one's an original:

France 20 francs 1951, BB mintmark (apols for the picture quality, it's in a 2x2 that's gone a bit tacky).

I remember there were quite a few well-worn brassy coins in that first little handful - Australia had never had brass or al-bronze circulation coins up till then, and I recall having the hope that these yellow things might be made of gold... hey, I'd never actually seen any gold before - how was I supposed to know?

Anyhow, when I got them home (and was disavowed of my gold fantasy by my chemistry-professor father) I noticed that two of them were French; this one and a 20 centimes from 1964 (which I also still have). I remember thinking it odd that two coins the same size and colour would be made for two different denominations.

coachleonard

not the first coin(s) i pulled out of pocket change or my dad's overseas accumulation.. but i do have one of the two coins that was my first purchase: in 1972 i sent off for two Indian Head pennies for 35 cents plus shipping. I received a 1906 in VG and a 1907 in near Fine but slightly bent. HUGE thrill since my previous oldest coin was a 1940 nickel. I still have the 1907 Indian cent

a039

No, PCGS just purchased it back under the grade guaranty for $1600

silverpop

Yes i still have my 1982 philippine 5 sentimo which was my first world coin for my collection