Guest 50cents Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 What was your 1st coin? Do you still have it? Show a picture if you have one. My first coin was a 1916 Walking Liberty. The coin was a gift from my late father. I've had it for 40 years and would not take anything for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 My first coin was probably one of these... Though I don't really remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 The first coin I got that I think started my coin collection is a Viet-Nam 10 dong coin from 1968 that was brought back along with some MPC's and Vietnamese paper money for me as a souvenir. I still have all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan769 Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 My first coin, or I should say the only coin I can attribute to my childhood when I was collecting, is a 1889 Indian head Cent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 Wow, my first coin - er, first coin that I still have, rather - was also an 1889 Indian Head Cent. From my grandmother. I got it in about 1985 an remember waiting around for 4 long years for the thing to turn 100 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 Well, I received numerous silver dimes from an aunt when I was very young, which were hidden away till I was a teenager. My first real coin that I remember was the proof 1986 Liberty dollar and I will never sell it, not that I would get much for it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 I had a whole pile of first coins, most of them i sold. I did keep one however, an 1807 penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 My first coin was a Morgan dollar set aside for me when a was a baby by my Grandfather. My mother held 1 for each of us and when I was 11 it became the cornerstone of my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 I don't remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 The first coin I deliberately kept on the basis of its `collectable merits' was a dark toned gVF Victorian shilling (veiled head). Something about it captivated my attention. I was a lost cause and a lost soul after that. Still have that coin. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie582 Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 Unbelievably, my first coin was found in the sand in Findhorn bay North Scotland in 1954....an Edward I penny. It was in VF and was the reason I'm now a numismatist! Sadly I sold it along with my whole collection in 1970 to purchase my first computer, a self build Sinclair. I've returned to coins after retiring in 1986! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 First coin I actually "collected" was given to me by my Grandpa, 1909-V.D.B. in AU. I giggled a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 You know, I'm quite sure everyone's first coins are the common "circulated" coins during the time *cough* As such, I only remember a pile of coins worldwide that my parents stored and hence that started me in coin collecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 You know, I'm quite sure everyone's first coins are the common "circulated" coins during the time *cough* As such, I only remember a pile of coins worldwide that my parents stored and hence that started me in coin collecting. I disagree, it was the old coins that hadn't been in circulation for many, many years that got me interested. Why? Because they were different! So as i stared at my VF 1887 Victorian Shilling as a small boy and though, wow this is actually Victorian, it's really over 100 years old, it's silver and you can't spend them anymore!* That's what hooked me. *I was incorrect on this as the year was 1990 and yes the shillings were still legal tender at the time. Unfortunately i didn't find this out until 1992. So many George VI and Elizabeth II coins i could have unloaded and bought sweets with. Can't by a damn thing with them now... lucky to get anywhere near 5 pence for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 You know, I'm quite sure everyone's first coins are the common "circulated" coins during the time Not in my case. In 1970, a silver 10 gulden commem was issued and I remember going with my mom to the post office (I was 4 or 5) and she got one for me and one for my brother. It remained in my mom's money-box for some 30 odd years and then she discovered it and gave it to me. So officially that was my first coin. The first coin that I personally started my collection with must be a Netherlands 1 cent, most probably a 1948, as that was the only one that circulated in those days, with a different design (other queen, Wilhelmina). And as AEtheling said, one looks for and saves things that are different. I don't think I have that specific cent anymore, but I do still have the silver 10 gulden commem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sisu Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 I can not say what my first coin was precision. I do know that my great-uncle (who passed on his broad yet modest collection to me a few years ago) gave me a birth year Ike. Since my mother held this for me, I do not recall when exactly I received it. The first coin that I kept of my own is more difficult to pin down. I would say it was either a wheat cent or an older Jefferson nickel from circulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ageka Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 After the second worldwar my grandfather had no more use for goldcoins so he gave me a gold double eagle I am ashamed to say I sold it in 1980 for 4 times the price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coinmonster Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 My first coin was probably one of these... Though I don't really remember. Great Topic! Tiffibunny your post got me to remembering my Great-GrandMother we had a blue bank bag full of the those,along with the halves and some other coins I don't remember. I asked my Mom what happened to that bag and got the " I don't know" but I have a feeling someone spent those coins. Then the coins my Uncle gave me got us started into doing a little collecting.One of the ones he gave me was a Walking Half (Liberty). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fropa Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 I'm not sure which coin I actually started my collection with, But this is the first coin I bought. I bought it when I was in High School from a kid that was in the coin club I joined back in the late 70's or early 80's. It was nice and shiny and the first indian cent I had seen. After doing some studying I realized the coin had been coated with some liquid to make it shine making it worth nothing. It taught me to learn about the coin before buying, so I have held on to it to make sure I don't forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corina Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 My first Coin of my Collection Was one i got in 1992 while Overseas 1982 Philippine 5 sentimo Still have the coin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Cave_Troll Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I don't remember my first coin exactly, but it would have been a Lincoln Memorial cent. My Dad and I would sort rolls of cents on saturday afternoons and while I'm certain that I have since upgraded and spent my first coin I still have the blue Whitman folder that it once resided in. The first coin that I purchased for more than face value was a 1954D Franklin Half that my Dad pulled out of a roll on one of those Saturdays. I think I paid $4 for it, which was a lot for a 4th grader in the early to mid eighties. It was pretty ugly and I sold it back to him for the same price I'd paid withing a few months, but I still remember it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banivechi Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 30 years ago, after a deal with another 8 years old boy I renounced at my Pif collection (French comics) and started my coin collection with one silver Hungarian 1 Korona 1915 and two dozens of european Cu-Ni coins. Then I've found some romanian coins at relatives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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