Do you remember the first collectible coin you owned?

I remember when I was a kid, probably around 10, I didn't really collect coins but I knew that some of them were worth money. One summer day I found a 1943-D steel penny. I thought I was rich! It was a Sunday and I couldn't wait until Monday so I could take it to the coin shop and find out how many hundreds of thousands of dollars it was worth. I kept taking it out of my pocket and looking at it. Sunday night I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the things I'd buy when I sold the penny. I finally fell asleep and woke up the next morning and went to the coin shop. It was closed on Mondays. I was disappointed but still happy because I knew I was rich. On Tuesday I took it in. When he told me it was worth about 3 cents I thought he was trying to put one over on me. I thought he might figure I'd just let him have it and get rich himself. I asked if he was sure about the worth. He pointed to a display case where he had a bin full of them with the price tag at (I don't remember exactly), but it was around .25 cents each. I don't remember what happened to that penny, but it was my first "collectible" coin.

 

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I remember when my brother and I were younger, there was a restaurant with a machine that you could win wheat pennies out of. That was the first time I was ever exposed to 'rare' coins. My brother told me how valueable there are and so I had been saving them for years. And then I found this site and discovered most of them are worthless. But it was so cool.

 

Got involved in Numismatist and become a coin collector when this coin arrived at my home on 1995 December before Christmas...then on the early year of 1996 I visit twice the Baltimore Coin Show in Maryland and some local coin show in Annapolisnd show to some peoples out there this beautiful piece.

 

I'm no error expert but why does it appear that the words from the dime are backwards? I thought that was a sign of a squeeze job?

 

I think it is based on the way you are looking at the coin, but the words are not backwards...

 

I do not know either but most of the professional expert in Numismatist that I talk too in Baltimore Coin Show in Maryland. It is legitimate error a Double Denomination 11c.
This one is also certified by Mr. Alan Hager in Baltimore Coin Show year 2000, March. He got a small intrument in his hand with a bright white light pointing out on this coin it's look like a detector if the coin is Fake or what..I am watching him and some people too while doing his work to certified my coins. It is a Big Crowd on that Day.

 

oops I just realized that the 'D' looks like a 'G' and so that's why I thought 'GOD' was backwards. Do forgive me

 

Wow, how much is this worth?

 

:dead-horse:

 

lol........

 

I think someone suspects it could fetch as much as 8 to 10 Million dollars.

 

The first coin that I can remember that meant something to me was a 1913 Barber dime. For some reason I collect Barber coins now.

 

omg!!!

 

I think my first was an Indian Head cent - there were still a few floating around in circulation when I was a kid. Mercs, Buffalo nickels, Standing Liberty quarters and Walker halfs were pretty common in those days. Wish I had put away more of them!

 

I wish I could say that I first got into coin collecting when my great grandfather gave me his prized 1873 seated lib. dollar or something, but alas, my interest in coins started when I peeled a sticky indian head cent of the bottom of my shoe in Walmart

-C.J.

 

11 cents since people can't decide whether it's a penny or dime.

But like someone else mentioned, the owner thinks this coin is worth more than a 1933 Double Eagle which sold for 7.59 million dollars and also the Flowing Hair dollar which sold for 7.85 million dollars to break the 1933 DE record price.

 

My first coin was an 1859 IHC I bought for a dollar in Good 4 condition. I still have it and I did good for only spending a dollar on it.

 

The first collectible coin I ever owned was a very corroded 1900 IHC. An elementary school friend gave it to me for Christmas when I was in the fourth grade or so...he had a small collection and I had become interested in coins. I still have it in the same flip he gave it to me in, with his handwritting on it.

The first coin I bought was a BU 1881-S Morgan Dollar. I think I got it in 1997 or so and paid less than $20 for it.

 

For my 8th birthday, I was given a dozen or so COMPLETED Whitman type of books. They were all full of coins (indian pennies, old wheat pennies, silver quarters, old silver dimes, etc). I was told that one of the pennies had taken the individual over 40 years to locate because of how rare it was. Me being the bright and resourceful 8 year old that I was sold the entire collection to a 10 year old for face value + $10. I pigged out on penny candy for months thinking that I had just made a fortune.

Looking back I still cringe.

 

My first collector coin was a 1876 Seated Liberty Quarter (About Good). Got it back in 1988 and still have it.