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What was the first coin you fell in love with?

GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
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I'm talking about the very first coin that you looked at and it instantly struck earned a place in your heart.

Mine was a generic $20 BU Saint I saw in a coin shop when I was about 5. The hefty price tag of $300 seemed like an ungodly amount of money
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    RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,129 ✭✭✭✭
    Buffalo nickel
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    SilverEagles92SilverEagles92 Posts: 6,787 ✭
    Saint Gaudens Gold... $20
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    mommam17mommam17 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭
    No doubt, my 1970 Christmas present, ANTIETAM.
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    dantheman984dantheman984 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar
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    constructconstruct Posts: 932
    A flying eagle cent. The second one was a seated liberty quarter. I was in elementary school. I still have both those coins.
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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,236 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mercury dime. Collection days on my newspaper route. 1960. Whew!

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    OakOak Posts: 205
    Tuff call. Morgan $ were always Christmas presents from an aunt, which hooked me on coins, but I'd say the Walking Half was my first favorite design
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    tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    When I was around 10 I purchased a 1856-O Seated Half in AU+. Took me a while to pay it off. And then when I was in my early 20s I sold it at a flea market for some stupid reason. I still think of that coin and wish I never sold it. Not that is is really worth much as I have far better coins now but I do remember it through the eyes of a 10 year old.
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    pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,088 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another vote for the Buffalo nickel.
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1942, 2 over 1 Mercury dime, but this is a close second:
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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1909-SVDB cent. When I started collecting, the closest coin shop issued a written list every few months. I couldn't believe a Lincoln cent was worth $15 (especially in only Good condition)! My, how times have changed.

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    stev32kstev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭
    For me I think it was a Spanish milled dollar - pieces-o-eight, the pirates treasure coin. I was somewhere between eight and ten and that was a very thrilling thing to actually hold, feel, and own. It was a counterfeit, but that didn't really matter to me - it was still something a pirate might have held.
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    fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    <--- Guess!

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    woodwalkerwoodwalker Posts: 297 ✭
    When I was about 10 my grandmother gave me a 1857 flying eagle cent. I'm in my thirties now, and still find myself getting it out and looking at. It always reminds me of her.
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    jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    This beauty:
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    MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
    This coin, given to me my fraternal grandfather, started my first foray into collecting as a child:

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    I always fancied the Indian Cents for some reason.
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    mojoriznmojorizn Posts: 1,380 ✭
    A 1926 Standing Liberty quarter that was horribly polished to a high shine and probably graded a VG-8. It came out of one of those Littleton "Yesteryear" sets.

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    capecape Posts: 1,621 ✭
    buffalo nickels on the old paper route in the late 60s
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    TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭
    Complete set of Circulated WWII Jeffersons.

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    fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    Bicentennial quarter. Figured I'd get rich by rubbing off the 1976, and then selling it as a 1776.
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    atom48coinatom48coin Posts: 314
    The very first coin I can remember, was the 1959 Lincoln cent -- in 1959, when I was a kid. While I didn't know anything about "collecting", I do remember the publicity that surrounded the change from the wheat shafts to the memorial on the reverse. The first coin I bought, though, was a 1942 Walking Liberty. I still think the walking liberty is one of the most beautiful coin designs ever.
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    mojoriznmojorizn Posts: 1,380 ✭
    ttt
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    mrcommemmrcommem Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I traded several Indian cents for an uncirculated 1884-O morgan dollar. That was back in 1966 and I still have that coin. At the time I thought that O mint mark was really special.
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I've only had one coin that I really had to buy. When I saw my proof half cent for sale, I was immediately looking to sell several of my nicest coins to bankroll it.
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    CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    This one:
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    It was literally a matter of questioning if I was dreaming when I first saw it. 1892-O Morgans just don't look like that. They are weakly struck in the centers, have indifferent luster, and are never found as cameos. Naturally, I had to sell my first born into slavery and buy it.
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    BBQnBLUESBBQnBLUES Posts: 1,803 ✭
    A $10 Gold Indian... My Dad told me it was "Tonto"

    hey, I was just a kid & Loved "The Lone Ranger"
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    lloydmincylloydmincy Posts: 1,861 ✭
    In third grade my "interest in girls" was starting to blossom. It was a taboo for my family to discuss anything "boy-girl". I was inspired by coins because my grandma let me have her childhood piggy bank with indian head cents, buffalos and even some liberty nickels, but a classmate brought to school a:

    Peace Dollar. It was so BIG and heavy to me, but what I fell in love with was her (liberty) "look". I thought she looked a little too suggestive. This series is neglected due to its lack of any real rarities, but I have some proofs - guaranteed money-losers, but there is one out there, a "sand blast looking" 1922 Matte Proof that I saw once, and do not know where it went. It was for sale for $250,000.

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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    A mint state 1938-D Buffalo nickel. They're as common as dirt, but the first time I saw one as a kid, I was hooked.

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    AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    My first would have to be an AU 1794 Large Cent image
    I still can't afford it ... image
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What was the first coin you fell in love with? >>



    I bet with Russ the coin now has milk spots all over it!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    I would have to say the coin that got me started into collecting

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    zap1111zap1111 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭
    A 1796 Liberty Cap large cent in AG 3 that my great grandmother showed me when I was eight years old. She said she had something to show me, pulled open her top dresser drawer in her bedroom, pulled out a little box and told me that this coin had been in the family a long time, and that her grandpa gave it to her when she was a very little child. There was also an 1858 Flying Eagle in that box. Forty-two years later they're now in my possession and they'll go to my grandchildren when the time comes. Some coins just aren't destined for the coin market.
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    CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    zap, that is the kind of thing a lot of us wish we had in our families. Lucky you.
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    FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    The 1915 Panama-Pacific $50 Octagonal will always be my holy grail coin. When I first saw one in the Red Book, it was something that really caught my attention. When I finally saw one at the Smithsonian, it was a very special moment, indeed.

    Will I ever own one? Probably not. But if I ever hit that Powerball or Mega-Millions - watch out Albanese Rare Coins - I'll be wanting an octagonal and a round one - both!image


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    TrimeTrime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
    1901-S quarter. Found in change.
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    JoeLewisJoeLewis Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭✭
    Franklin Half Dollars.

    Also, a large cent I saw in a coin shop when I was ten.

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    mcheathmcheath Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭
    10$ indians
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    WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    1812 Bust half found moving old china cabinet, it was face down stuck in a shot glass.

    hint, mid 60's
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    prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    a prooflike gold dollar.
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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An 1856 Half Dime that my maternal grandmother gave me when I was about 12. My father had gotten me into filling coin books for Jefferson Nickels, IHCs and Lincoln Cents many years before, but the Half Dime was rare and exotic to a 12 year old.

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    dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    1883 no-cent nickel in xf-40. i was about 10 y-o at the time, & it was the 1st coin i ever bought w/ my own $$$. stupidly sold the coin some years later, really wish i had it back.

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    Bryan1315Bryan1315 Posts: 579
    The 1878 morgan
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    Moose1913Moose1913 Posts: 404 ✭✭✭


    << <i>A mint state 1938-D Buffalo nickel. They're as common as dirt, but the first time I saw one as a kid, I was hooked. >>

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    silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,936 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The first US Error coin i ever owned a 1974d Ike MDD Dollar

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    RodiusRodius Posts: 857 ✭
    An AU "V" nickel with the date cut off. I always dreamed that it was one of the missing 1913's. I found it in a box of foreign coins my Grandpa gave me back in the 60's.
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The first really nice early coin that I had ever owned.

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    GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This one:
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    It was literally a matter of questioning if I was dreaming when I first saw it. 1892-O Morgans just don't look like that. They are weakly struck in the centers, have indifferent luster, and are never found as cameos. Naturally, I had to sell my first born into slavery and buy it. >>

    Jeez thats a nice coin. Whats the grade? Looks like an MS66 DMPL.
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    GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What was the first coin you fell in love with? >>



    I bet with Russ the coin now has milk spots all over it!!! >>

    EW!
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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Gee....lets see......image

    a Morgan......image
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