How Good Is Your Memory? Your very first coin?

I'm sure this has been posted before but not by me. I'll never forget mine, which was a 1923 Peace Dollar that my Grandmother paid me the first time I mowed her lawn, took out the trash and clipped the edges of that lawn with good old fashioned grass shears. I started to work when I was 10 years old so I was not new to earning my keep but this coin is still with me as I turn 60 in a few weeks. It started me on a life long hobby that I have never regretted. Eventually she emptied an entire oval bank of all her saved silver for my chores. I have all of them and would never part with them. They stay in their respective albums forever right along with all of my fond memories of a great Grandma. .

 

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I had junk silver given to me by family when I was young, but my first coin paid for by me was a 1/10th gold when I was in high school. I believe it was an australian one with a snake. It is still in my collection, but I haven't looked at it in awhile. 2001 I believe?

 

I bought my first coin in 1985.... It was a german two Mark piece with a swastika on it.
It's still in my collection.....but my focus is now on US silver and gold coins.

 

Either Wheat cents from my dad, or late 80's Mexican Pesos from when my Grandmother came back from a vacation in Cancun.

 

A Morgan for my b'day.

 

doing a witman wheaty cent album in cub scouts.

 

I had some wheaties. And used to get 90% in change pretty often. But the first coin I remember buying was a large cent I really wanted one. Got a 1817 15 stars for $5 when I was like 7. My father got a 1865 2 cent around then too from someone he worked with I ended up buying off him or trading something for I cant remember

 

Summer 1963...an 11 year old boy is playing in a city park across the street from his house. He sees something in the grass and picks it up. It has a lady with a shield on it and--wait a minute--NAKED BOOB!!!. I was forever infected.

This is what an XF 1917 SLQ looks like after 50+ years as a pocket piece.

 

I know this precisely. It was in 1957 and I was thirteen years old and I bought an 1865 three cent nickel at a stall in the Bristol (Pa. ) Farmers' market, followed by the purchase the next week of Yeoman's Blue Book, followed by 58 years of numismatics, a hobby which made me a good history teacher for most of that time.

 

My grandpa gave me a 1986 Statue of Liberty proof commem dollar for my first birthday. I still have it.

 

I started by finding a business strike 1968-S Jefferson nickel when I was 12.

 

I'll never forget. It was this 2 cent piece when I was 8.

 

an 1878 cc Morgan from my grandpa in 1960's...he was a concrete guy and i guess they would use the morgans in cornerstones but save the more interesting ones.

 

however
i dropped the hobby in 75 only to return to the brave new world of slabs/MS+ grades, etc last year...buying about less than 10 coins between 76-2012

 

Here is mine - a damaged 1922 D Peace Dollar my grandmother gave me. First coin in my collection.

 

Mine has a few layers. I'll only touch on 2.

When I was a kid, My grandfather bought me framed sets of coins. I still have them to this day. I thought they were really cool, but he lived in FL and we never got a real chance to talk about them.

I didn't collect coins when I was young. None of my friends were into it and we mostly played sports outdoors.

Around 2009, I received a solicitation from a MN silver investor via the mail. If I ordered the free prospectus, they would send me a 1 oz. silver coin. I thought, what the hell. Ordered and read the prospectus. Didn't invest, but I ended up with a 2009 ASE. I had NO idea what it was at the time, but let's just say I'm now a collector.

 

My first coin was a very worn 1917 Merc that my grandfather gave me and a rusted steel cent.