Who Here Still Has Something Coin Related That Goes Back to the Very Beginnings of Their Collecting?

Most of these come from the late 60's to early 70's. I only had to buy a few key dates to finish the album. I think I also pulled from circulation the 80's, 90's and 2000 dates.

 

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Now you may not know it but this is
very, very rare. You know, like
the three people who paid for
IRC software.

 

I started-out in mid-life collecting and went straight for the gold. Still have a few of my earliest coins, most of them very common type coins. About a year ago, I sold-off the first double-eagle I ever owned, an 1902-s. Was bought raw in 1986 for $470 (at the very top of the market that year ) and was graded as XF45. When it came back from NGC last year in an AU55 holder it was time to get rid of it and trade up. I traded it for an 1928 in MS63 plus a little cash. Anyway, a few of the first coins that I still have, mostly from Paul Sims in Virginia.

 

Very sweet stuff Waldo.

 

Like a lot of collectors, my father got me into collecting when I was young. I remember working my tail off for a couple of weeks mowing lawns, raking leaves, and washing cars for anybody on the block that would throw a dollar or two my way. All of this so I could have a few dollars to spend at a coin show we would drive and hour to attend. While at the show, I would dig through the bargain bins to find coins marked 1/2 off or otherwise deeply discounted.
My first coin that I remember buying for myself was when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was a large cent that was in a half price bin (originally marked at $7) and I "talked down" the dealer (as I watched my father do 100's of times) to $3. I was swelling with pride after that show.
Funny, after reading this thread, I started thinking about that coin and wishing I still had it. It would definitely be one I wouldn't part with.
Good memories...

 

This 2x2, along with a couple of dozen others I still have, date back to c. 1968. I would have been about 10 years old. You can see where I wasn't very careful about stapling in moisture as well as the coin.

 

Hey, we were 'young' Ben.......

 

Who remembers this?

 

Wish I still had them, Hunt brothers got 100% of mine.

You guys are very lucky to still have yours !!

 

Thanks Ken for starting up a great thread. My dad and dad's mom (my grandmother) got me into coin collecting. Each gave me a bunch of coins, but over the years I have managed to save just two which I will never get rid of. The Morgan is from my dad.

 

T

that sounds so familiar I remember getting around $8 and having my father send a check for a 1800 large cent in g/vg that turned out to be a 1800/79 in fine with of course some porosity to it I treasured it but it dissapeared in the move when I was 12 I never found it unpacking my stuff cause I wish I still had it

 

I don't have much left from the "beginning". (The real beginning started only about 4 years ago, but there were a few times in my life that coins popped up without me taking much of a notice)

The first was a Whitman folder set of wheaties I was given that my uncle had started when he was a kid in the 60s/70s. It was partially completed, and was completely foreign to me since I was still in elementary school. After a while I decided those pennies would do better for me in my piggy bank than in those folders and that piece of history was lost lol.

The second was a Whitman State Quarter folder my parents got me randomly when I was going into middle school when that series was just starting up. These quarters would be worth something one day (so I was told) so I started putting that set together year by year by searching for the new state quarters every time I got change from any store. I got almost to the end and had almost all after a number of years, and once again figured those quarters would be better for me being spent on snacks at the corner store lol.

The third time was the charm I guess as my real collecting began when I got my hands on the silver dollars I had inherited from my grandparents when they passed. A 1923 Peace dollar and 1902 Morgan dollar. I really got into the hobby for about a year and ran into some hard times financially and sold off almost my entire collection, and dropped out of collecting for two years. But I never got rid of those silver dollars, the "family heir loom" lol. It was just recently that I came across them again and they were the main reason the spark for collecting got reignited again. Now I'm back in the hunt to get a real collection going again...

 

Unfortunately, my first collection as a kid -- a complete set of Lincoln cents in the Whitman folder #2 -- "disappeared" at some point in the move when my parents got divorced, never to be seen again.

 

I had a Whitman folder of Washington quarters that disappeared like that. Had a '32 D and S in it that I pulled out of circulation. To this day I mourn that loss.......

 

Ken

Do you want to put your address on the internet?

 

<---- Is a "Ken" too LOL