Do you remember the first U.S. coin that you collected? Why chose it?

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  • karenren
    karenren Posts: 78 ✭
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    @RichRRichR Wow! when you take coins, are you feeling good?

  • 1Mike1
    1Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Lincoln cent. Was introduced to me as a child. I wasn't able to stop until I completed a full set of business strikes.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • Quake17
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    Paperboy like many others starting in '69 at age 10. I would cherry pick the silver coins and wheat pennies and War Nickels. I received the 1970 Red Book for Christmas (which I still have and use) and the first coin show I went to, I decided enough with the worn stuff and spent my paper route money on a BU '55 Franklin Half for $5. It was the pride of my collection and I show it to all my friends with their grubby mitts. It was about a VF when all my silver sold in '80, so I did fine, but a good lesson.

  • karenren
    karenren Posts: 78 ✭
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    @Quake17 coin show? I also want to join! :D There must be many coins, right?

  • karenren
    karenren Posts: 78 ✭
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    @1Mike1 Lincoln cent? I never see them? Could you give me a look? :D

  • RichR
    RichR Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Funny that this thread got me thinking about my parents and my very early collecting...which I had not thought about much since their untimely passing more than 15 years ago.

    At or around the same time my dad surprised me with the 40% silver bicentennial set, he also bought me a clear lucite paperweight with the Philadelphia portion of a 1964 Mint set embedded within.

    That paperweight faithfully sat on my nightstand through grade school, high school and college...the first thing I saw every morning when I turned on my lamp...until I left it behind when I got married. Unfortunately it got lost in the shuffle when I had to clean out my parents house.

    But it’s funny how these random thoughts suddenly dawn on you after decades of being lost in the mists of time.

  • 1Mike1
    1Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @karenren said:
    @1Mike1 Lincoln cent? I never see them? Could you give me a look? :D

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown

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