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Can anyone remember their first coin they ever paid for?
YaHa
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I wished I could show you a picture on mine, but I have in framed in a 4x4 bullet proof plastic block. The coin was a 1884cc morgan pl 65 from the GSA sale, I told my mother to buy one for my with my birthday money, Back along time ago. can anyone remember the date when they opened up mail order bidding?
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Yup, a 1909-S VDB. Extra Fine and I paid $200 for it in 1965. I was in the service and it was over a month's pay. I was 21 yrs. old and my friends thought I was nuts. Maybe I was.
25 cents. Still have it in the original 2x2.
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Purchased in 1978 for $10 (Grandma gave me the money for my Birthday)
from Tom Avery at Century Coins in the Century Plaza Mall, Birmingham Alabama
I was paying guys $10 each for them (They had to be problem free or it was $5. Some really nice ones I would give $15. I sold them upon graduation in 1973 and bought my first vehicle in 1974.
A '54 Chevy Panel Truck for $250. I still have that and it's a basket case but it's paid for .
<< <i>I vaguely remember buying Morgans while in high school at Creighton Prep, in Omaha during 1969-1971.
I was paying guys $10 each for them (They had to be problem free or it was $5. Some really nice ones I would give $15. I sold them upon graduation in 1973 and bought my first vehicle in 1974.
A '54 Chevy Panel Truck for $250. I still have that and it's a basket case but it's paid for . >>
Sounds like the 54 Chevy is in the same condition as the owner
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<< <i>I vaguely remember buying Morgans while in high school at Creighton Prep, in Omaha during 1969-1971.
I was paying guys $10 each for them (They had to be problem free or it was $5. Some really nice ones I would give $15. I sold them upon graduation in 1973 and bought my first vehicle in 1974.
A '54 Chevy Panel Truck for $250. I still have that and it's a basket case but it's paid for . >>
Sounds like the 54 Chevy is in the same condition as the owner >>
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Pretty sure it was mail order in the mid 1970's.
Still have it too.
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Strange how the first coin I bought was gold and most of my coins are silver
This is the one that got me interested in coins. I started an Ebay search
for Hungarian(my background) and saw this and that was it.
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Edit to add: It wasn't the first coin I wanted to buy, but it was the first one the local dealer was willing to sell me. He refused to let me buy anything until I could give him a legitamite reason why I wanted this coin instead of another which might have been about the same price and age. Imagine that...someone who actually insisted that a customer learn something about what he was buying before he would take their money.
Later, I found out it was harshly cleaned. It's junk. But it served a purpose as one of my early tuition payments.
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.
$65 at the local flea market 4 or 5 years ago
If my memory serves me correctly, I believe two was the maximum one could order.
They look as good, as the day I received them. I think they were $31 each, I may be wrong.
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I still have on eof the first rounds I bought.
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My first single coin was a month or two later when a man walked into our coin club with a high grade AU 1918-S Half.
I gave him $3.00 for it & still have it in my walker collection which I assembled in six weeks from circulation except the '18-S.
That collection and my buffalo nickels are the only 2 left from that era.
I just have a sense of nostalgia about them and never upgraded either one as I did with all my others.
BTW, I did add the 1914/3, 1916 DDO and the 1918/7-D nickels in recent years.
Them wuz the gud ole dayz!!
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I still have it, but now it has friends.
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