Post your Looooooongest held coin, maybe your first coin as a kid?

ambro51

Ive had this coin since...well I guess before kindergarten.....I remember that and my little white ceramic bunny (where O where did that thing ever go it is the Rosebud of my life)......doing show and tell. this old coin....you wouldnt believe the harsh cleanings I put that thing though. The Brillo Pad. Yes, the brillo pad, on the outer edge of Moms kitchen sink. I could see eye to eye with it...

anyway this ol coin seemed ancient to me, and a special thing it was to hold an ancient thing in my hand. shrouded in mystery...I knew it was english but, nothing else.

So thats the theme.....post the first coin you grew up with and still have





This George Washington token was my Grandmothers. It was kept along with a few others in a box, she probably got it in 1932. When I was just starting my coin life, that was the fist thing Id run to Grandmom and ask her to let me see when we would visit. I thought it was Gold!





and thats the way it was....a half century ago today in my life.

ChrisRx

No pictures of it and I am currently at work but it is a generic WLH in a real old cardboard flip they must have used ages ago. Bought it with my allowance at a pawn shop me and my dad used to go to. I must have been around 8 years old.

SkyMan

I have some other coins that I've held a bit longer, but this is the one I've owned the longest that I've got a picture of. I bought this in 1988:

RedTiger

No pics, but one of the first coins I bought was a 1955-S Lincoln in BU for fifty cents or so. Being a stupid kid, I put it in my Whitman push folder. Thinking I was smart, I taped plastic food wrap over it to protect it. I'm not sure if I still have it, or it got lost.

MrSpud

I still have the indian cents by brother gave me in about 1969 or so. I polished them up real good with my mom's brasso, when my brother came home he told me that I messed them up. They still look terrible I picked up these Hungarian coins not long after that at a coin shop in Pittsburgh called South Hills Village. I used to go through their junk coin foreign box for hours while my parents shopped looking for the oldest dates I could find.

slumlord98

I have some Indian cents that my great grandmother pulled from circulation, along with some 2 and 3 cents. When my grand father was a kid he wrapped them in home made rolls made from lined paper. I believe there is a partial roll of 1901s around here somewhere. No pics, though.

tombr

During the gold/silver price explosion in 1979-1980 I worked for a man that bought "junk" silver from the public. I would stay late and help him sort through the stuff. He had no interest in them as coins, just as silver. He let me buy anything I wanted for what he paid for it (around 22 times face) in return for my help. I managed to cherrypick quite a few items. This is one I have left. It is a 11-D Barber Quarter. Sorry, no reverse pic. I still have a few others