FreakyGsMom

After buying coins for Garrett for years, the first coin I ever bought for myself was a really pretty yellow toned 1885-O MS64 Morgan Dollar from Lehigh. I love it!

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bizzybill2000

The first coin I bought was a 1880-CC Morgan Dollar, it was one of three coins I purchased from a man I worked for that bought and sold collections. It came with a 1882-CC and a 1853 three-cent silver. Sad part was that the couple that sold that collection, sold it for a little over spot silver. They just wanted to sell the whole group(about 125 coins) because silver was high.
Wish I could have talked them into saving them for there Kids or Grandkids.
Thanks for the contest.
Bill

TheNoost

I was helping my parents get their house cleaned up and ran across some coins and the bug hit me. Went on ebay and bought a coin lot for like $114. Thought it was goood deal at the time, found cointalk a few days later and found out I got ripped. No silver coins. Just a bunch of junk. Guess thats the tuition. Cool contest idea.

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der_meister77

The first coins that I ever purchased were a PDS set of 1943 steel cents from a local coin dealer. It was more than a decade ago and I was about 10-12 years old and thought that only a couple of dollars for such strange looking wheat cents was an excellent purchase! I really think that this was the first time that I ever saw the steel cents.

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clembo

I can't remember the first coin I bought. It was too many years ago.

I CAN tell you the first coin I bought when I got back into it many moons ago.

An 1833 Bust Half Dollar. This was a big move in our household (me and my wife). After all I was looking at dropping $30 on just one coin!

My dad would buy coins for me when he was on business trips. He had no clue but one of the first was an 1866 Two Cent Piece. Eventually that led to my fascination with that particular coin.
Still have that coin and only wish he were alive to see the set(s) I have now.

clembo

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snaz

wow, awesome prize! I'll definitley enter this one!
The first coin I ever purchased was a 1932 Canadian cent in MS RB. I think part of me wanted the coin and part of me wanted the slab. I had no idea what I was doing. Haha
I guess a long time ago I bought some Mexican pesos off my uncle when I finished going through his change bin. That was probably 10 years ago or so.
I still have the pesos and the 1932. Actually. That 1932 is the only coin that resides in my registry. Haha I'm rather low on the list.
Thanks for the chance at the 1925!
Thanks Matt

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ziggy9

My first coin purchased was picked from the local coin shop's "junk silver" box back when I was a paperboy in the mid seventies. I liked the coin because it was "old". it was a 1784 French Ecu that had "H. B. BACON NOV. 26 1876" hand carved into the face of it. It really never fit into anything I collect and I sold it to a friend a couple of years ago. I never really missed it until he gave a talk at the last club meeting on "Foreign American Coinage", those coins that were legal tender in the early days of the United States. He had a round table type talk where he passed around the coins that he talked about. Sure enough, there was that first purchase of mine. He offered to sell it back to me but it really seemed to belong with that special collection of period coinage.

Richard

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sketcherpbr

My first purchase was from a friend of mine back when neither of us were aware of the true values of many coins. He has a fairly large silver and gold collection, but I couldn't afford the gold, so he offered me a deal on a 1922 Peace Dollar. It looked so shiny and nice, little did I know it had been polished by someone at some point in time. But I bought it for super cheap, a price lower than melt (what were we thinking!?!). I wasn't trying to rip him off, we were both pretty oblivious to the facts back then, and this was only a year ago!

Thanks for the contest!

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becky62

Thanks for the contest.

I started collecting about 5 or 6 years ago for my grandson who was born in 1996. The first coins I bought were for his birthyear. Just so happens 1996 is a good year for ASE's. I bought the unc for way less than what it sell for now, around $10 at the time from APMEX. Along with that I bought him a PCGS MS-69 1996 $5 gold eagle for $52.

Since then the collection has grown tremendously. I sure have learned a lot since then too and I pass all that knowledge on to him.

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CanadianCharles

The first coin I ever bought was a 1901 Morgan Dollar and another Morgan, can't remember the date on that one. Why? I was just starting out collecting, it seemed like alot of people were collecting them, so decided why not and bought 2. I really like the design also.

Thanks for the contest!!

schroeder2246

Back when I was a little kid, probably about 7 or 8, I bought a wheat penny from one of my friends for two cents. I had an offer with most of my friends at school that I would pay them double for any wheat cents they found. The first one I got was a 1947 P. Nothing too special, but I was lucky enough to get a single 1909 VDB from circulation. I think in total I had gotten around 15 wheat pennies. Those were good times.

wiggam007

Although I did some collecting as a kid, it was all out of circulation. As I became interested in the hobby again over the last couple of months, I tried to decide what coins I wanted to collect, and even still haven't decided. However, while browsing a local antique store, I found a small case with a number of foreign coins in it. One of them caught my interest: a 1905 10 Ces Royaume de Beligique. It isn't in great condition, and the design isn't that complicated, but for some reason I like it. I payed 5 dollars for it, probably way too much, but oh well. In addition, at 1905 it is now the oldest coin in my collection.

OxJaw

First one I ever bought was an '09 VDB. I had pulled a few wheaties out of circulation and came across the '09 and just had to have it, I don't really know why I just did.

Goldstone

The first coin I had ever bought was an 1855 Half Dime, and I was 10. The reason I had gotten is is because my great grandfather had been talking to me about how different the modern day coinage is, and how he used to be able to get lunch and a snack for about a nickel. Then he continued to tell me stories of how his father's father would work for a day and get a half dime, and then I said to my great grandfather don't you mean a nickel? He explained no, they used to make a half dime it was slightly smaller than the dime, which was a lot of money back then. In pure amazement I asked if there was somewhere where we could get one of these "half dimes," and he said yes and we went to a coin store...This is what started my coin collection!

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Dima

Started collecting when I was nine - kept going to a local bank and getting rolls to search for wheats, got a few Ikes; simple stuff like that. The oldest thing I had at the time was a 1941 merc dime I had found in the park a few years before. I kept bugging my parents to take me to a local coin shop and they agreed but not before they got me a Red Book. I read the thing cover to cover so they did end up taking me. Once we got there, I obviously wanted to buy everything the guy was selling but one set caught my eye especially. It was a little plastic case with a 1963 Unc. Franklin and a 1964 Unc. Kennedy. Since up to that point I only had modern stuff from the bank, it was really exciting to see a Franklin half so I got that set first. Then I went on to get a few very circulated indian head cents, V nickels, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes and steel cent. I moved the coins into 2x2 holders right away, but I still have the little plastic case.

Nice stroll down memory lane. Great contest idea.

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