Your First Slabbed Coin

I believe this was my first. Cherry picked it then had it graded to confirm it was authentic.

 

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[QUOTE="Markus1959, post: 2504453, member: Too many widows mites being sold on Coin Vault - those scare me more than the real thing - LOL!![/QUOTE]
I've had it for a long time. Then again I don't have to many slabbed coins. Think I was born with that ancient idiology. I've yet to break one out of a slab though.

 

Damn J - who woulda thunk it was gonna be a 2.5 Gold piece?

 

HeHe, he gotta weak D.
Cool coin though

 

I just can't get Robert Chambers out of my head trying to sell Widows mites from Coin Vault - It still creeps me out even that guy died from cancer - damn, what the heck is happening - EVERYBODY is dying from cancer!!

 

Not another coin vault thread, lol. If it ain't cancer it's shot or drug overdose

 

It's been too long. I can't remember.

 

A 50 D Jefferson, soap box slab.

 

I believe it was an 1878-s Morgan.

 

Mine was a full PCGS box of NGC graded Morgans. An old guy in a nearby town had a shop that sold fish bait, ammo, bullion, and various cheap junk. But one day he had these Morgans that had come in. I really wanted to just pick a few, but he kept trying to make me a deal on the whole box. They were a nice mix of common dates, MS63 & 64. His price was low enough I figured I could hardly go wrong, I went back the next day with the cash and brought them home. Some of them have found new homes, but the best was an 1881S (No surprise) in 64 but that coin has some serious flash and is a favorite still today...

 

Long ago in a coin shop that no longer exists - the bulldozer razed it and it was no more - just dirt and glass bits. Somewhere within that small glass-lined now non-existent shop within a large shopping mall - which also no longer exists; time is cruel - I bought, for the first time, a slabbed coin: a Morgan dollar. I don't remember the date, the condition or the brand. But I do remember the slab. Years later, I purchased a slabbed 1999-S silver Connecticut "Charter Oak" state quarter from a shop that happily still exists. I still have that one. The earlier slabbed Morgan vanished long ago. Sold in a purge. So it rolls.

 

1936-S San Diego Commem in NGC MS65

 

This one. So far, I have fought off the erge to set it free.

 

That's great - bring home a 7 pound steelhead with 400 rounds of 7.62 X 39 - I like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It's been so long, but I think this was among the first

 

Well my kids called him the Mountain Man, he sure looked the part!

 

My first grader coin was an ANACS photo-cert MS-65/64 1881-S Morgan. I believe it's in my sons safe now, haven't seen it in years. I believe my first actual slab was coincidentally an 1881 3CN PR-65 rattler.

 

Sweet coin. You are an inspiration man, for real. I'm trying to work my way up to your level, or at least half way lol

 

My first is an ANACS AU55 1880/79 O VAM4 purchased in 2001 I believe.

 

Neither you nor I will ever know... saw it for sale at a silver store, and for some reason took a picture of it... I personally think it is one of those elves that you put around at christmas to scare your children into being good but i could be wrong...