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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
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    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.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,158 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
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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....
  • dan383dan383 Posts: 812
    A 1924 Saint (raw) for $67.50 in or around 1972







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  • ledzep87ledzep87 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭
    A 1999 1/10 ounce uncirculated American Eagle. image
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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: 1,037 ✭✭✭
    1908-D Motto Saint. Au-53.

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

  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    Eagles at 256 each
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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: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • 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
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.

  • SlangNRoxSlangNRox Posts: 774 ✭✭
    <-- Canadian 1/4 oz hologram coin
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excluding bullion coins my first was an 1882 $5 in AU. Latest was a Type 1 G$1 in AU.
  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    My one and only!

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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: 6,069 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 1876-S $20 for $60 in 1968.
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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.
  • ddbirdddbird Posts: 3,168 ✭✭✭
    This one...

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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?

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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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: 4,149 ✭✭✭✭
    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
  • drjulesdrjules Posts: 1,683
    1915 half sovereign

    Dr J
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  • gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    1870-s 10 dollar lib, raw, that was ef
  • 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.
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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1926 $2 1/2 Indian MS63 (Raw) from Leon Hendrickson at a show in Ashland, Kentucky back in the late 1970s.
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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
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1881 XF $5 Lib
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  • EricTheCatEricTheCat Posts: 14
    Here's my first:

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  • mtnmanmtnman Posts: 574 ✭✭✭
    I bought an AU Liberty $20 in 1965 or 66 for $60.00
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    1894 $10, bought as an "ms60", got it into 62 plastic.
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    This one:

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  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1834 Half-Eagle
  • 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.

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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never have owned a gold coin period.

    Ken
  • 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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