TomCorona

Walking Liberty halves (good grading practice)

weryon

Daboz

2 1/2 dollar US gold Indian. I was asked to take this as part payment on a car I was resorting for the owner dealer. He paid for the entire restoration in US Gold. To be sure I was not losing money, I studied the topic and got hooked. Started doing coins shows to add to my collection and I went bananas after that

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weryon

This is a nice little story

coinman1

A 1901 Indian Head Cent,given to me by my grandmother when I was 5 years old.It was worth 7 cents back then.That was 49 years ago and I have been collecting ever since.It really excited me that 1 cent could be worth 7 cents,the collecting bug got me and has never let go yet.If my grandmother could see my collection now ,she would be proud of me and my accomplishment and how it all started with one cent.

d.t.menace

For me it was a 1909P Lincoln I got in change when I was 10 or 11.I still have it after 40 years or so.It's in my album and thats where its going to stay, even though it doesn't grade as good as the rest of them.Is it stupid being sentimental about a hunk of copper?

RUFUSREDDOG

I was 1st seduced by 1943 Steel Wheaties back in the '50's.

They were "different": Then I started to notice Dates, not just denominations! And some wheats had Letters not just numbers!!

and Indian heads could still pop up in change.

As a pre-teen I started my penny horde, mostly from coins gleaned from lawn jobs and a paper route. Then I bought some coin holders and ruined them all.
I now have some forever enshrined in nasty old PVC tubes. Perhaps I should finally get out a hacksaw and try to recover some of those coins.

Cloudsweeper99

Three things stand out in my memory.

When I was a kid, I loved finding Canadian coins in change. There seemed to be a lot more back then than now.

I also recall that it was a big deal when my father gave me some silver dollars that his father had given to him.

More recently, the ASE amazed me when I first saw one, and really got me back into collecting again.

Collect89

I got started with a blue book price catalog and the Whitman folders that my Dad gave me. I started with Lincoln cents so it was the Lincoln cent set that got me started as a US coin collector. While searching cents I found a nice Lincoln cent with base of bust cud (LC-69S-04). This cud error is the coin that got me started in error coin collecting.
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bobbeth87

Dad gave me a set of old blue whitman folders and a 43 steel penny to get me started.

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cadmanco

My coin collecting started when my mother pulled a 1930 Standing Liberty Quarter from change and gave it to me. It was a nice VF-EF grade, which was quite unusual to find any dated ones in circulation. That was about 1955 though.... Sorry I'm dating myself. I still have it in my collection today and even though not a rare or valuable piece in the general marketplace, it caries extreme value to me.

JefLinc

I was at the F.U.N. show in Orlando one day with my dad and we found $8 on the floor. We saw some cool lincoln Memorials at the show and I started my first collection. It's pretty cool that I started my collection by finding $8 on the floor.

lionsdog64

i started collecting when i found a 1898 indian cent now i want to start collecting nickles after i got a very sweet 1992d full step today hee ha.

Dollar1948

I think for me, it was a blend of Canadian large cents and the Canadian Victory nickel.
When I was a kid apprrox 5 years old my best friend had 2 Whitman Folder each containing a small collection of those 2 types of coins. I loved looking at the large cents with the obverses containing monarchs who I had no idea who they were. The victory nickels reverse was unique.
I came from a lower middle class household so there was no way i could have afforded any type of collection on my small weekly allowance I use to receive.
Finally when I reached 35 years old, and I was browsing the newly founded ebay, I discovered my interest still existing so from there it just took off.

scorpio4frenz

For me, it was the state quarters....that's a common beginning for many new collectors lately.