I'll show you mine if you show me yours
ttown
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So while the box of 20 collectors or investers buying coins for profit and convincing themselves they are collectors knowing they're toast within 5 years!
. Lets see your first coin.
This little gem is priceless and I don't care for barbers really.
1965 +/- 1 year. Flee market .65 cents. My goal? Find the oldest silver coin I could afford
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I think the first coins I ever bought were a type set of Barbers, ca. 1971, for $2.75 if I remember correctly.
I took the coins to school to show my friends, and ended up selling the dime that day......and it has never stopped!
On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, when I was not quite 11 years old, we were at my grandmother's house and I was asked to set the table for the upcoming feast.
Grandmomma pointed out where the silverware drawer was in a huge old sideboard in the dining room of her grand old Atlanta house. In that drawer, I found a 1936 Mercury dime! It seemed incredibly ancient to me at the time... forty years old. Now forty years have elapsed since I found it. I also found a 1948 Franklin half that had been shot with a bullet, and a 1943 steel cent. (Grandmomma let me keep the steelie but not the Frankie- that was a souvenir of some uncle's marksmanship and had apparently been shot in the air, Annie Oakley style.)
I still have this 1936 dime, over 40 years later. Thousands of other coins have come and gone through my collections, but this one has stayed with me.
In 1965, I was busy making my entry into this world. Born December 28th of that year.
Great that you still have the dime.... Any idea what happened to the Franklin? Although my Father was not a coin collector, he did have some old coins in his 'sock drawer'. I have the old German silver coins (large and gorgeous design...likely worth something, just never checked). Those 'family' coins just have a special place in the collection. Cheers, RickO
It looked better than this when I bought this 1838 half dime from my mother's cleaning lady in 1960, but I cleaned it and stored it in a crummy envelope. That is a lesson learned.
I was born in 1949 and when I saw this I thought, “Wow! This coin made not just 100 years before I was born by 111 years!” Such is the sort of thing that can fire a young imagination to become a collector.