First coin you bought?
dib
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What was the first coin (over face value) that you bought?
Mine was an 1865 three cent nickel in pretty worn condition for $11.55. I liked it for a small period of time, and then sold it and netted a miniscule profit. Definitely a weird first coin purchase to make...
Mine was an 1865 three cent nickel in pretty worn condition for $11.55. I liked it for a small period of time, and then sold it and netted a miniscule profit. Definitely a weird first coin purchase to make...
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It would have been a Lincoln cent, probably in the teens and I probably paid a nickel or a dime for it.
Great times
Gary
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I still have it. Looks pretty rough after a cleaning 35+ years ago.
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I was about 12 or 13 … ( 1967) at the time, and Mel was a neighbor down the street. Life long friends of the family in the 'hood. I'd get most of the coins I collected from my paper route.
Oh but those IHC's had won my heart early. And because I sold them to a reputable dealer who made an unreasonable lowball offer, in 1972 to fund my Christmas shopping, I got so upset,
…. I stayed away from coins until 2000.
Taken me a long time to "get back" into that series. I still like 'em. I just never chase them now.
Later on : after I got back into collecting around 1990: took the money from selling off my sports card collection and bought three coins: 1916-d Merc in VG, 1909-s vdb in AU-50, and 1877 Indian 1c in VF-30 all old white anacs holders.
My first purchase on ebay some 16yrs ago was a 1814 classic head large cent in PCI 15
My first re- purchase after selling off my collection several years back to open the b & M was an 1856 Flyer in au-58
Great thread.
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
$14.50 at the hobby shop I bought models from.
Oh and.......stamps.
Too bad it is gone.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947)
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Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
A new friend in a new neighborhood which we just moved to asked me if I wanted to ride my bike over to the local coin store.
I responded with, "coin what?"! People actually go to a store for coins?
Well we rode over, walked in and I looked around.
They had this gumball machine in the corner, for $0.25 you could get a little plastic container with a coin in it.
I happily planted my quarter in it, turned the knob and out popped my plastic container with a 1885 indian head cent in Fine+ condition.
I was sold.
My father gave me so much crap when I got home. Saying something like, "you spent twenty five cents on a penny?".
Later on in life, he caught the coin bug from me and had a nice set of certified commems and various early type coins in the early 90s.
Ahh the old days.
Rob
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Same here. I believe it was a 1901 Indian head cent in good condition for $.25 from my local coin/pawn shot. Boy was that old guy that ran it great to sit and talk to!!!
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I would usually end up buying at least that kind of quantity each meeting and we met quite often so the motivation was there to sell me a lot of coins!
Oye what a long time ago that was
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Childhood friend, Robert Vaughn, and I noticed an ad in some magazine where you could pick certain Lincolns in 'circulated' condition for various prices. I went for the killer -- the 1909-VDB. It was about $2.00 or so . .and I paired it up with a few lower end coins in the 25c. range each . . .and we sent off our money and proceeded to wait.
We hounded the mailman until I swear he wanted to change routes. We were poised daily on our Schwinn Sting-Rays at his mailbox at the end of the driveway like little coin-gangsters. It seemed forever . . . three weeks or so. Finally the package arrived and I nearly destroyed my bike as I kicked free of it at the top of his driveway to run into the house. We opened that up and just sat there transfixed by these slick P-01s or F-02s . . but WE COULD SEE DATES!
Those little letters on the reverse of the 1909 -- they made me King of the Neighborhood for at least two days . . . until Dave Munk broke the Keeland's window with an errant baseball throw.
Oh well . . . . STILL the best numismatic memory I will ever have . .
Drunner
It was Christmastime and my younger siblings were waiting on line to take a picture with Santa. I really didn't have any interest in this 2 hour wait but I was a good sport about it. As a reward my dad took me to the coin shop and told me to pick something out.
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