Anyone besides me remember their first coin shop visit and what they purchased? 1841 AU Large Cent. Five bucks. Thought it was the most expensive greatest coin on the market. : ) Sad that I can remember that like it was yesterday. Can't remember my first kiss. LOL...
I'm there with you. A large cent (1849 for about $4.50) if I recall correctly. I was 9 yrs old in the summer of 1970 Take Care Ben
I believe the first coin I purchased was an 1808 Half. I bought it from a mail order dealer. I never attended a coin show, or shop, until many years later. Still remember my first kiss, too.
I beleive I remember, it was a 1986 Statue of liberty proof set with both the dollar and half dollar, 30 bucks. its not worth about half that.lol But whe i got it i was in love. Lady liberty was my first focus of coin collecting. I bought it from a place named Crystal Coins. that ended up burning down a few years later. Its to bad they did becuase I wanted to work there when I grew up. lol I also remember useing my lunch money to buy grab bags there after school. Granted the grab bags did have alot in them, about 10 coins but the coins were all old nothing modern and only cost 2 and 3 bucks. So for the time being i was very happy. Needless to say those grab bags alone have shot up in value. I saved a few as they where in the same little envelope, sold the contance on ebay for 25 bucks. lol not bad for a 10 year old first ventures in to coin collecting in investing.
My mother used to buy me a proof set every year for Christmas and I looked forward to it but was NOT yet a collector.They just sat in a pile in my kitchen cabinet until one day,a bolt of ligtning hit me and FORCED me to try and complete the sets as far back as I could afford...which eventually turned out to be 1953. My first purchase,all 10 sets from the 1980's at one time.The year was 2001 believe it or not,I'm a relative newbie....but don't tell anyone.
Not from the first time I collected, no, I was very young. More recently it was an 1803 C-1 half cent. Ugly li'l *******, but nice 1803s are kinda hard to come by. Fish
First coin or first kiss? I remember the latter, not the former. First coin that I remember (during high school) was an ugly large cent, all details gone, but the lettering on the rim was still clear. Long gone. But not forgotten.
I remember the first coin I bought quite well. I was in the 7th or 8th grade and it was an uncirculated 1881-S Morgan Dollar, I think I paid $15-$20 for it...somewhere in there. It would probably grade MS-64 looking back at it and almost has some prooflike features. It is still my favorite coin in my collection. However, I remember my first kiss much more clearly.
I've always had some coins--ASE and such---but can't remember what my first buy was--more than likely some junk silver---even when I was a " punk" kid my dad and mom made me set back some money and every now and then dad would let me decided to either buy a ASE or some Junk silver.... As for the other thing ya'll are talking about---never have done that so I don't have to remember that Speedy
The first coin I bought was an 1834 half. I had just graduated Air Force basic training and accidently found a coin dealer in the basement of some department store in San Antonio. I can't remember what I paid for it, but liked it because it was the first coin I owned with edge lettering.
The coin shop inside the department store... yes, that brings back memories of Abraham and Strauss having one-- a coin and stamp shop, actually-- in their Woodbridge Center (NJ) store. I'm sure my tiny purchases there were annoying. But it was a lot of money for me! I can't say exactly which coin it was that I bought with my own money (there is a difference when you're a kid!) but I think it might have been a coin from the Congo (Kinsasha) with a lion nearly filling up the obverse. The first US coins probably would have been Lincoln Cents to help fill in that first Whitman folder. The most monumental purchase I made as a youngster was a 1904-O Morgan in BU for the princely sum of $8.95 plus shipping, from a fellow named Jon Palmer out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas via mail order. I'd bought some Lincoln Cents from him previously and decided it was time to take the plunge and the risk sending a money order for more than $9 to him. He threw in a US-minted Phillipines silver ten cent piece as a bonus! Thalia's first coins bought with her own money were, I'm sure, Indian Cents. And she got another Indian Cent as part of her "special change"...
My first coin I collected was in 1966, when I was in the 7th grade. A boy brought to school a U.S. 2 Cent piece dated 1864 and showed it to me. Wow! I was absolutely facinated. I thought he was so lucky to have something like that. I had never ever heard of one, much less ever seen one. He brought the coin to school two weeks later and I bought it for twenty-five cents and two pieces of sugar cane. I was the lucky one. In researching the coin I stumbled upon pictures of Morgan dollars and other U.S. coinage. That encounter set me on the path to a life long pursuit of old U.S. Coins. I am still facinated today.
I think it was a George III Shilling in rather worn condition but still legible along with some farthings & sixpences :thumb: It was from a back street antiques (Junk) Shop in the town of Wrexham. Initialy it was to be a gift for my Dad but It reminded me of all the fun I had as a child helping him to sort his latest aquisitions (he use to let me keep the US cents as I was facinated by them) LOL I decided to keep it and it went from there. De Orc :kewl:
