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What is the first gold coin you ever purchased?

GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
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mine was a tenth ounce American eagle

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    seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    gold buffalo
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

    Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

    Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.
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    ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
    This one:

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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    An PCGS MS63 1911-D Saint from Becker & Kuehnert, around 1990 or so. That was a lot of money for me at the time and I looked at that coin every day for 2-3 months.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,966 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 1904 $20 gold piece purchased for $50 from Earl Schill of Detroit in May of 1966. I was 15. I traded in all sorts of duplicates and junk plus about $7 hard money. His wife was very patient and kind working with me on it, even though now I realize that it was probably not worth their time. I did eventually buy my 1909-SVDB from them to complete my collection.
    Tom DeLorey
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is my first gold coin, the 1908 MS63 No Motto Saint. I consider it my lucky $20.00 gold piece and will never part with it.

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    FlyfishguyFlyfishguy Posts: 333
    My first gold coin was a nice AU 1881 $10 gold piece for about $32. it was about 1966 and I was 14 years old and that was a months wages delivering 188 newspapers every afternoon.

    I still have it....
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    dan383dan383 Posts: 812 ✭
    A 1924 Saint (raw) for $67.50 in or around 1972







    DAN
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    ledzep87ledzep87 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭
    A 1999 1/10 ounce uncirculated American Eagle. image
    Great transaction with: Relaxn, Collectorcoins, OKCC
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bought an 1878 $20 Lib. a few years ago. It seemed to fit in my collection rather well. image
    John
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    MrBreezeMrBreeze Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭
    1908-D Motto Saint. Au-53.

    https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/collectors-showcase/world-coins/one-coin-per-year-1600-2017/2422

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    66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    Eagles at 256 each
    Need something designed and 3D printed?
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    xphobexphobe Posts: 605
    My very first gold coin. Not purchased though... it was a gift to my mother when she was a baby, kept in a bank box all those years, then she gave it to me. I'll always cherish it!

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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    This one from Carl W.

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    OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    My first gold was a 2000 Unc. 1/10 oz. Gold American Eagle...

    My first pre-1933 gold was a 1909 $2.50 Indian I won off a bid-board for $22 in 2002-2003
    -Ben T. * Collector of Errors! * Proud member of the CUFYNA
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1915 Austrian ducat restrike.

    Around the same time I saved up from a summer job and bought a Fine 1857 $5 Lib.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    SlangNRoxSlangNRox Posts: 774 ✭✭
    <-- Canadian 1/4 oz hologram coin
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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,345 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excluding bullion coins my first was an 1882 $5 in AU. Latest was a Type 1 G$1 in AU.
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    LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    My one and only!

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    -Amanda
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    I'm a YN working on a type set!

    My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!

    Proud member of the CUFYNA
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    DrPerryDrPerry Posts: 126



    NAGBT



    Sorry couldn't resist

    Mine was a

    PCGS MS69 2006 Buffalo

    Ding! There's your Post of the Week, folks.


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    pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 1876-S $20 for $60 in 1968.
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
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    jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    I bought two at the same time. They were a 1991 1/10 oz Gold American Eagle PCGS MS69 and a 2000 1/10 oz Gold American Eagle Proof PCGS PR69DCAM. I no longer have them. I sold all my gold a few months ago.
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    ddbirdddbird Posts: 3,168 ✭✭✭
    This one...

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In the mid-60's, I bought a 1927 Saint for $47.00 from a mail order dealer in Coin World. Wish I still had it. Today, it would have graded at least a MS64.

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    pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    1908 something $5 anacs 58. Going to sell it soon, gold doesn't do anything for me.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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    rec78rec78 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually i got it FREE. for selling raffle tickets for my coin club about 1972 . they weren't very expensive then and you got one for selling 100 raffle tickets--even though i had to buy about 15 myself. (then i won one also) both quarter eagle indians. I cant remember the first one i bought however. Bob
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    TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭✭
    A PCGS MS-63 1927 Saint for $365 in Sept '01

    Won the money on a slot machine in windsor completely drunk seeing double image
    Collection under construction: VG Barber Quarters & Halves
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    drjulesdrjules Posts: 1,683
    1915 half sovereign

    Dr J
    Place holder for when I move some stuff via ebay, don't look just yet

    My omnicoin collection (or how my coin photography has progressed)
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    gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    1870-s 10 dollar lib, raw, that was ef
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    coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    1903 $5 lib was my first. still have it.
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    USCGCraigUSCGCraig Posts: 1,008 ✭✭
    1877 PCGS Quarter Eagle in AU50. I thought it really cool to own a coin with a mintage in the 1,600 range. I traded a bunch of low grade ho-hum stuff for it too.
    Coast Guard Craig

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    ARCOARCO Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I could spend hundreds of dollars on a silver coin with little intrinsic silver value, but always felt that buying gold was somehow "expensive" even when the value of the gold in the coin was a large percentage of its value.

    I bought five world gold coins as my first gold. Swiss 20 Franc Helvetia, Peru Libra, British Sovereign and two others I can't recall.
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    MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1926 $2 1/2 Indian MS63 (Raw) from Leon Hendrickson at a show in Ashland, Kentucky back in the late 1970s.
    Fall 2026 National Battlefield Coin Show September 11 & 12, 2026 at the Eisenhower Hotel Ballroom, Gettysburg, PA. Early Bird passes Thursday September 10, 2026 from Noon to 5pm $25 each. WWW.AmericasCoinShows.com
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    relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    1976 1/10th oz Gold Angel from the Isle of Man
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    DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭
    turn-o'-the-century French 20 francs 'Angel' coin. A really cool design for an inexpensive buillion type coin. Purchased it in the mid-90s while i was in the Marine Corps.


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    AlixTCatAlixTCat Posts: 1,276
    (2) 2005 1/4 eagles. Both graded MS69. Only had it graded to ensure it was real. I got them off eBay. I know, I know, one should not buy raw gold on eBay. But all that I bought has been authenticated, so I guess it was not a bad idea after all. I got good deals. I also had a 1929 $2.50 indian for a short time, but I had to give it back after it came back from grading. MS63.

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1881 XF $5 Lib
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    EricTheCatEricTheCat Posts: 14
    Here's my first:

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    Eric

    from the land of the un usual,
    where hijinx ensues
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    mtnmanmtnman Posts: 576 ✭✭✭✭
    I bought an AU Liberty $20 in 1965 or 66 for $60.00
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    1894 $10, bought as an "ms60", got it into 62 plastic.
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    MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
    This one:

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    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1834 Half-Eagle
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    DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    1911 2.50 Indian, bought as EF, brought AU money. I decided I didn't care for the look of it after awhile.

    -Daniel
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    FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never have owned a gold coin period.

    Ken
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    originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    A 1904 $20 Lib in NGC MS-62, still got it. Decent, even if the most common $20 Lib there could be. image

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