It's my 30th anniversary; post a coin you've had this long

Barbercoin · July 22, 2008 4:22AM

Today my wife and I celebrate our 30th wedding anniversay. Post a favorite coin you've owned for this long.

Thanks,

John

Edited: or if you're not as old as I, post something something cool

Batman23 · July 22, 2008 4:41AM

What if I was not around 30 years ago to have a favorite coin to post

BTW, Congratulations on thirty years and still going!

Edited to add one of my favorite coins... A purchase as a YN way back in the 90s

BillyKingsley · July 22, 2008 4:43AM

Congrats!

Barbercoin · July 22, 2008 4:43AM

Oops, I never thought about it that way. Sure, post something cool.

SilverEagles92 · July 22, 2008 4:44AM

I would! If I was alive thirty years ago...

bdunndchi · July 22, 2008 4:58AM

<< <i>I would! If I was alive thirty years ago... >>

CertifiedGoldCoins · July 22, 2008 4:59AM

Congrats to you and your wife on your 30th, John. This is the only survivor from that long ago (bought in 1964):

MACEDON, Alexander the Great, Tetradrachm, after 323 B.C.

kryptonitecomics · July 22, 2008 5:04AM

I was around....but I wasn't colleecting when I was 6 years old. Congrats and here's a new one I hope you enjoy......hopefully it's a colors as your 3 decades of marriage

SpaceMonkey · July 22, 2008 5:11AM

congrats...

well, this one was not "mine" per se... but it WAS my fathers.. plucked from circulation when he was a kid. It WAS in my house growing up and i always enjoyed helping out with my father and grandfather when they were putting together there whittman folders.

-sm

ambro51 · July 22, 2008 5:31AM

I found this one on a hot steamy evening in 1972. Kept getting rolls from the bank......looking for a 72DDO and finally...FOUND IT!

Just recently sent into the home team for some plastic, PCGS 63RB

Barbercoin · July 22, 2008 5:32AM

Wow, great coins. I hope to see a few more.

I never realized how young some of you guys were. It must be nice to be young again.

sfs2002usa · July 22, 2008 5:46AM

I can't tell you how proud I am of this, the first coin of my collection,
exactly 30 years ago:

golfer72 · July 22, 2008 10:25AM

Great story on the 72DD. Always wanted one of them

Cameonut · July 22, 2008 10:48AM

Sorry, no pic, but I still have the 1961 proof set in a blue Capital plastics holder that my parents gave me for my birthday. It got me interested in proofs and though it is nothing special, it is priceless to me.