Post a coin you've owned for at least 20 years.

SkyMan

With all the people out there (including me every now and then) flipping things fast and furious, there are some coins that just "talk" to you and you hold on to them for a long time. They don't have to be spectacular or anything... just a nice coin that you enjoy owning. Post a coin that you've owned for at least 20 years. For those of you that have only been collecting between 10 - 19 years, you can post a coin that you've held at least that long in your collection, but please mention approximately how long you've owned it. For those of you that have only been collecting for 1 - 9 years, please do NOT post a coin here (even if you think you're gonna' hold onto a given coin until they shovel dirt over you), as your coins have not been held long enough for the purposes of this thread.

I've owned this one since ~ 1990.

Caleb

I'm not even 20 years old, how could I have owned one

blu62vette

This one may be right on the cusp of 20 years but it is real close.

richardshipp

I've had this one for somewhere near 40 years.

renman95

1902 $5 for 25 years.



I've been underwater in this coin for about 21 of those years.

GeorgeKellogg

I've owned this one since October 1982 (almost 30 years). I sent it to PCGS to be certified in 1993. The photography is by BluCC.

AUandAG

Many of us started out collecting as kids, with cents and nickels and such. Well, these cents were
the very first purchase I ever made (Coin shop in Redwood City, CA) and I still have many of these
little sets. Paid 25¢ when there was a big hoopla of large date and small date 1960 pennies.
edited to say that I have had them a bit over 52 years now!
bob

lcoopie

47 years

OnlyGoldIsMoney

39 years. I searched thousands of Lincoln cents in 1973 in hopes to find a DDO.

keets

no picture of the coin, but i have a 1798 Large Cent that i traded for in 1969. it's the oldest coin i own and the one i've owned the longest.

rxer

I still have all my Lincolns in my 50 year old blue Whitman folders that I pulled from change
in the early 60's , even though my biggest find ( east coaster) was a 55-s penny. Still have
the first coin I ever bought, an 1853 half dime for approx $2.50. Most likely all the money I had
at the time in 1961. Accounting for inflation, I'm still $20.00 dollars in the hole on that one

windwhispersintrees

Not quite 29 years yet....pulled this from circulation in 1983. Somwhere back then I'd bought Alan Hebert's error book, so I was quite excited to find a decent error....some die cracks and a cud.

stealer

<< <i>I'm not even 20 years old, how could I have owned one >>


we're in the same boat!

TwoSides2aCoin

The flame wasn't re-ignited until the turn of the century. I can go back to then and you don't want to see any modern coins, I'm sure

SaorAlba

Not immediately sure how long I have owned it, but I believe I have owned it for almost 30 years:

JCMhouston

I have a lot of coins I have owned for over 20 years, but all British. These two Shillings were among the first vcoins I bought when I started collecting British in 1985.

Manorcourtman

Dang, I can't wait till tomorrow to take pics of my collection from childhood. Nonspectacular Wheats and Buffs but bought with my own money when I was 10. So they were bought around 1976-1978. Also have my Grandpa's collection of coins he pulled from circulation in my birthyear(1967) Some true AU58's!

MarkInDavis

Here is one in the 2 x 2 I bought it in. Nothing special really. Probably dates to mid 70's. Was just a kid then. And it shows what I paid for it.

CharlotteDude

Purchased in August 1991 - my first Charlotte gold coin:



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tjc2120

fishteeth

Some time around 1990 I sent this one into ANACS. The first coin I ever sent to a grading service, I was in 7th grade. Paid 35 cents for the coin a year or 2 earlier

AnkurJ

I was 11....
Probably a few state quarters.

TwoSides2aCoin

Fishteeth, that is very cool. If you're hooked, I can see why.

Lakesammman

Heck, why just one coin - here's my entire collection from childhood, 40+ years.

SkyMan

Some great looking coins everyone!

melvin289

I have owned this since 1968. I think that's 44 years.

Ron

HoledandCreative

Picked this out of a junk box for a quarter in 1963.

ricko

I have some coins that I have had for well over 50 years..... Cheers, RickO

BillJones

Coins I've owned for 20 year? That's only since 1992! I tend to keep coins I like for a long time.

Here's one I've owned since circa 1965, a 1908 No Motto double eagle. I paid $75 for it back then. That was a very high price for the time because double eagles were nationaly advertised in the coin magazines for $49.95, but many of those were not as marke free as this one. At any rate I only bought gold coins from large dealers because I feared getting a counterfeit. So I ended up paying more. Thuis one is now graded MS-64.

johnny9434

<< <i>Here is one in the 2 x 2 I bought it in. Nothing special really. Probably dates to mid 70's. Was just a kid then. And it shows what I paid for it.

>>

this brings back some memories for sure

Pistareen

Like Lakesammmman, I still have the lion's share of my childhood collection, pretty much all still in the old poorly lettered envelopes identifying the people I bought them from in the late 80s and early 90s. A lot of what used to be cheap junk is now pretty cool.

Most of my expensive coins from back then were sold when the time came, to help pay for college etc. My mom was generous in helping me add to my warchest to buy a couple nice coins a year, as long as I agreed that they were a savings account that would be liquidated when college rolled around.

Here was the coin I always most regretted selling. It was the first 1794 cent I ever owned, purchased from Chris McCawley, my first copper mentor, back in 1990. It was in a VF-20 ANA Cache slab then, which I asked Chris to crack open when I bought it. Today, it's NGC 35. It was a lot of money in 1990, and more money when I went to school 5 years later, but it was one I always wanted back.

It turned up at auction last year and I was able to pry it free from the folks who bought it. It's never going anywhere ever again -- basically the only Federal coin in my personal collection.

sweetwilliet

I need to take a pic, but I have a 1916-d merc that I have had for 30 years. I bought it when I was about 8 years old.

BaronVonBaugh

I have a J-208 that I bought in 1995. Sorry no pictures.

A J-208 is a IHC dated 1858 instead of 1859.

RBB617

Lakesammmman - I have a box very similar to that although it's only 30 years old. Lots of tubes full of '76 quarters, SBAs and wheaties I pulled from circulation. A few "better" coins in 2x2s. Most of you know what I mean - polished Morgans, dateless Buffs and a few Franklins. Most of it isn't worth much more than face value or melt value, but I still like to look through it once in awhile.
Brian

GeorgeKellogg

I've owned this 1849-D gold dollar since January 1984 (28 years)--I purchased it, uncertified, directly from Stack's auction of the Amon Carter Collection. I sent the coin to PCGS in 1993 or 1994. It was my first coin with a significant provenance. The photography is by BluCC.

yosclimber

One of the best from my boyhood collection, pulled from US circulation in 1967 or 68:

Still in the original holder, looking a little blue at the high point - PVC?

I also have my grandfather's coins and a few that were his dad's, but I haven't had them for quite 20 years yet.

crypto79

<< <i>One of the best from my boyhood collection, pulled from US circulation in 1967 or 68:

Still in the original holder, looking a little blue at the high point - PVC?

I also have my grandfather's coins and a few that were his dad's, but I haven't had them for quite 20 years yet. >>


PVC = yes