I have many coins that I have held for a long time. In fact, for me a decade ago might be called "a new purchase."
I bought this 1964-D Kennedy Half Dollar at Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in 1964 when it was in tray with some of its brothers as a "new issue." I think the price was $1.00. I thought that I would keep up with the series in an album, but my interest disappeared when I discovered that you had to break up Proof sets to keep it going, or pay dealers $10 for a 1969-S half dollar. The Proof coins tended to go bad in the album.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
Still have 10 silver 50c pieces I "bought" at the bank for face value in 1964 - knew silver was disappearing and bought as much as a I could afford. Was with my Grandfather in Elliot, Iowa at the time.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
Great thread!
Like TomB, probably most of my collection I’ve had for 10+ years.
Last month at the Melbourne show, I brought a few of my large cents just to “show”, in rattler and small ANACS holders. One of the dealers eyes got wide and asked which table I had bought those at.....I laughed and said oh I’ve owned these a long time; that’s why you guys are always saying nothing interesting ever comes in, because guys like me hold on the the good stuff for decades!
I have coins acquired five+ decades ago...Once a coin lands here, it stays here....No selling, no trading... except for gift purchases (i.e. ASE's for births in the family)....Cheers, RickO
Here is the first coin I bought raw of ebay in 2004 when I began collecting again. 'Twas cleaned but was a repunched date so not the end of the world for a start.
Cool thread! How 'bout over 62 years? Yep, it's the old Morgan my father engraved for me when I was born. In which I sent to our host to try to slab. Guess what? They DID!
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Well, started collecting back in " 64 " Actually started buying on a regular basis in "74 " Can't post any pictures as I'm currently at work. And, as I'm a collector and not a dealer...…...yea I literally 1000's from the 70's on. Of course very few " high dollar " coins like the beautiful coins you all are posting. But I'm happy with my collection. And that's what counts right ?
Sure, yeah, lots. I've got ten or a dozen items I've had since the 80's and five or six I've had since the 70's. Here's a gold dollar I bought in I think 2005.
I still have the first coin I ever purchased. A 1938-d Buffalo nickel for 15 cents. I was at a KC Athletic baseball game with our Little League team and one of my teammates was showing a Buffalo nickel he was about to spend. I asked to see it and asked to trade another nickel for it. He said he’d sell it for 15 cents. It’s still in my book
I completed my Morgan dollar set (except for the 1895 proof) in 1977 , bought the entire set in the Kagin's 1977 ANA auction in Atlanta and still have them all.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
No pic, but I have the first coin I ever purchased from 50 years ago. Shamefully, without going to look at it I can't remember the year of the coin, but it's a large cent from the 1840's I think. I remember the event vividly. I really should send it in just to get it encapsulated to better preserve it as a keepsake. I think it will come back details with environmental damage, but I don't care. Maybe even a TrueView so I can enjoy looking at it more often.
My mother drove me to a coin store I found in the phone book and I wanted the oldest coin I could buy with my few dollars. I remember the man at the counter wearing the head-gear type magnifying glasses. Over the years everything has come and gone but I never considered selling it.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
I no longer have the first coin that got me started, but I've had this one for more than ten years. I'm sure it's the lowest proportion of how long I've owned it, compared to how long it's been around!
Instead of having a gold bean, it IS a gold bean! (Or at least electrum)
"Render therfore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." Matthew 22: 21
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I still have the first coin my grandfather gave me. I'll bet we all wish we could go back several decades and buy all those "inexpensive-at-the-time" coins we passed up for whatever the reason.
The ones I remember most are a gem 1907 HR $20; an Alexander gold stater; and a 1905 BU Denver Mint token because it had some hairlines.
I remember stopping at the page of my Redbook of the gold $4 Stellas in the mid to late 70's and thinking $20,000 was just crazy. Considering I was making $5.00 an hour just out of high school that was unbelievable money. I still have the first coins I bought during that period. Bought them at a weekly auction that took place at the Livonia Mall outside of Detroit.
They sat in a plastic coin tube for a decade or two. I'm sure I didn't pay more than $1.25 each. It's funny I almost forgot about these until I read this post.
All of them. As a collector for 55 years, I just can not bear to part with them.
I have never sold or traded a coin from my collection but I sure have bought a lot.🤑
I still have 99.99% of the coins I've ever purchased, starting in the late 1970s...and that's why I still fondly recall the coins I purchased at coin counters in Macy's, Gimbel's, Wanamakers, the original Stack's, and many, many long gone coin stores!
Yes many, though not most of my collection. I sold many coins in 2006, liquidated the majority of my South Africa collection (by value) between 2009 and 2010, and then sold many more in 2016. However, I still have many coins I bought over a decade ago, including one of the first after resuming collecting in 1998.
not quite, but In my box of 20, this jan 3, my 56 Flying Eagle I will have owned for 9 years. First coin I bought back after I sold my collection years ago to fund Opening the coin store. I bought it from rick.
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One of my longest held coins...
...I sold her in a weak moment a couple years ago, but got her back with a little stupid tax added.
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I have many coins that I have held for a long time. In fact, for me a decade ago might be called "a new purchase."
I bought this 1964-D Kennedy Half Dollar at Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in 1964 when it was in tray with some of its brothers as a "new issue." I think the price was $1.00. I thought that I would keep up with the series in an album, but my interest disappeared when I discovered that you had to break up Proof sets to keep it going, or pay dealers $10 for a 1969-S half dollar. The Proof coins tended to go bad in the album.
Still have 10 silver 50c pieces I "bought" at the bank for face value in 1964 - knew silver was disappearing and bought as much as a I could afford. Was with my Grandfather in Elliot, Iowa at the time.
Great thread!
Like TomB, probably most of my collection I’ve had for 10+ years.
Last month at the Melbourne show, I brought a few of my large cents just to “show”, in rattler and small ANACS holders. One of the dealers eyes got wide and asked which table I had bought those at.....I laughed and said oh I’ve owned these a long time; that’s why you guys are always saying nothing interesting ever comes in, because guys like me hold on the the good stuff for decades!
I have coins acquired five+ decades ago...Once a coin lands here, it stays here....No selling, no trading... except for gift purchases (i.e. ASE's for births in the family)....Cheers, RickO
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This is the first coin i bought back in June of 2009. It got me hooked.
That's starting out with a bang if I've ever seen it!!
I bought this coin in 1964 when I was 16 years old because I wanted a gold coin.
I sent $50 to a Coin World dealer and received this little gem:
United States $20 1927
I still have it.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Here is the first coin I bought raw of ebay in 2004 when I began collecting again. 'Twas cleaned but was a repunched date so not the end of the world for a start.
Best, SH
You must have been so tempted to sell it back in 1980 when gold went crazy.
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Do you have photos of the slab? That’s a stunning CBH.
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I got my first proof set in 1976. its the bicentennial proof with the 3 coins in it. still got it today. Merry Christmas all
One of the first coins I ever bought. Been sitting in a safe deposit box for 40 years.
You may still have the coins. But a real collector has the ephemera, too
--Severian the Lame
Cool thread! How 'bout over 62 years? Yep, it's the old Morgan my father engraved for me when I was born. In which I sent to our host to try to slab. Guess what? They DID!
Merry Christmas!
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.@HighRelief wow wow wow. Wonderful coins posted. Plucking a few while you deal in coins must be a thrill.
Impressive strike on that SLQ!
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
I have blank cent planchets that I kept in my super secret treasure box when I was 5.
From the mint in 2009
Yes, many
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
One of my favs from JJT:
Well, started collecting back in " 64 " Actually started buying on a regular basis in "74 " Can't post any pictures as I'm currently at work. And, as I'm a collector and not a dealer...…...yea I literally 1000's from the 70's on. Of course very few " high dollar " coins like the beautiful coins you all are posting. But I'm happy with my collection. And that's what counts right ?
Yes as a decade ago was just like a blink of an eye in time.
You ain't kidding!
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
I remember back in 2009 when the Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set was all the rage on the U.S. Coin Forum. Seems like yesterday!
I have every coin I've bought in the last 40 years.
So true.
I'm sure I have shirts from the 80's.
Yes, from 1998.
End Systemic Elitism - It Takes All of Us
ANA LM, LSCC, EAC, FUN
My oldest purchased coin was a 1913-D Lincoln cent around 1975.
You don't want to see it.
(I still have it)
My Saint Set
This one is named "The Thing"
Sure, yeah, lots. I've got ten or a dozen items I've had since the 80's and five or six I've had since the 70's. Here's a gold dollar I bought in I think 2005.
I still have the first coin I ever purchased. A 1938-d Buffalo nickel for 15 cents. I was at a KC Athletic baseball game with our Little League team and one of my teammates was showing a Buffalo nickel he was about to spend. I asked to see it and asked to trade another nickel for it. He said he’d sell it for 15 cents. It’s still in my book
Lafayette Grading Set
I completed my Morgan dollar set (except for the 1895 proof) in 1977 , bought the entire set in the Kagin's 1977 ANA auction in Atlanta and still have them all.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Here's a few of many...
The majority of my 200+ slabs have been in my collection for more than a decade and maybe 1/4 on them more than 20 years.
Overland Trail Collection Showcase
Dahlonega Type Set-2008 PCGS Best Exhibited Set
I've had this one for nearly 40 years.
No pic, but I have the first coin I ever purchased from 50 years ago. Shamefully, without going to look at it I can't remember the year of the coin, but it's a large cent from the 1840's I think. I remember the event vividly. I really should send it in just to get it encapsulated to better preserve it as a keepsake. I think it will come back details with environmental damage, but I don't care. Maybe even a TrueView so I can enjoy looking at it more often.
My mother drove me to a coin store I found in the phone book and I wanted the oldest coin I could buy with my few dollars. I remember the man at the counter wearing the head-gear type magnifying glasses. Over the years everything has come and gone but I never considered selling it.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
I no longer have the first coin that got me started, but I've had this one for more than ten years. I'm sure it's the lowest proportion of how long I've owned it, compared to how long it's been around!
Instead of having a gold bean, it IS a gold bean! (Or at least electrum)
I remember stopping at the page of my Redbook of the gold $4 Stellas in the mid to late 70's and thinking $20,000 was just crazy. Considering I was making $5.00 an hour just out of high school that was unbelievable money. I still have the first coins I bought during that period. Bought them at a weekly auction that took place at the Livonia Mall outside of Detroit.
They sat in a plastic coin tube for a decade or two. I'm sure I didn't pay more than $1.25 each. It's funny I almost forgot about these until I read this post.
All of them. As a collector for 55 years, I just can not bear to part with them.
I have never sold or traded a coin from my collection but I sure have bought a lot.🤑
I still have 99.99% of the coins I've ever purchased, starting in the late 1970s...and that's why I still fondly recall the coins I purchased at coin counters in Macy's, Gimbel's, Wanamakers, the original Stack's, and many, many long gone coin stores!
Yes many, though not most of my collection. I sold many coins in 2006, liquidated the majority of my South Africa collection (by value) between 2009 and 2010, and then sold many more in 2016. However, I still have many coins I bought over a decade ago, including one of the first after resuming collecting in 1998.
not quite, but In my box of 20, this jan 3, my 56 Flying Eagle I will have owned for 9 years. First coin I bought back after I sold my collection years ago to fund Opening the coin store. I bought it from rick.