Hello everyone! Here's a different one. It's called, as it says above , " Take Me Back Thursday!". This is dedicated to coins that you first Bought when you first started collecting. Please post a coin or two Or story about that time. This is my 1909VDB LWC that I bought in 1990. I remember the whole thing as I was on a date with the now Mrs. V. One of the places, we to was a to a flea market (nice date, huh?) and I found this for $3, so I bought it because I liked it, and it was, to me, old. It was my first coin purchased. I felt proud because all my other coins were found in circulation and through a very special relative who was also a collector of sorts.
This was the first coin I bought for what, to me, was "big money" at the time. I bought it from Joe Flynn for $115. I sold it 20 years ago on Ebay for the same price.
Here are a couple of Morgan dollars my Dad bought from a Canadian eBay seller that showed up in a china packaging. He asked me to verify and then got his money back keeping the Fakes. Not sure if that qualifies as a Win Win Real Morgan diameter FAKE Morgan diameter.
It was so long ago I don't remember, but back in the seventies I was buying flying eagle cents. To bad I didn't hang on to them.
I suppose I have always been an obsessive collector. My collections were always in Whitman’s. These go back to my early days. I suppose I never lost that obsession. I now have one safe fully dedicated to Whitman/Dansco type books.
This is the first error coin I bought when I first started collecting error coins and paper money. Bad picture, but I did not want to take it out of the flip. It is a 1946 cent with a cud at seven o'clock.
Here is the first coin I purchased, which were from my mother's cleaning lady. I cleaned it and messed it up so that it doesn't look like much today. The REAL coins I purchased were a 1908-S Indian Cent in VG-Fine and an 1875 Twenty Cent Piece in VF. That was in 1963 from the Gimbels Department Store coin counter in New York City. The Indian Cent was $35 and the Twenty Cent Piece cost $20. They are long gone. Here's the two that are in my collection today.
A few years earlier you could have picked up that 1894-S dime that came across the Gimbel's counter. They offered it to a friend of mine for $800 and he said no. He still has the letter from Gimbel's. Years later he purchased it at auction for over $30,000. He still has it.
Very old crappy pic, but this is the very first coin I ever purchased, in 1971. Not much later I was spending lawn mowing money on stuff like this. I still have everything I ever acquired.
I wish I had the means to picture some of my coins. i have a lot of beautiful coins that I would like the graded, but the coins are so beautiful, I'm afraid to let them out my hands. I do like your coins.
Yes, I remember reading the story when Jack Freidburg probably the same coin in Good condition across the counter across the counter for $500.
My very first purchase was when I was about 15, I think. My family was on a camping trip, and I didn't work yet so I didn't have a lot of money, but I was determined to get some coins. We stumbled upon an antique mall in a small town in Wisconsin, and I bought a Franklin half-dollar and a 1907 IHC. I'm fairly certain this is the one, but I don't remember taking it out of the 2x2. It's a 1/3 shot anyway. I also got an axe at that antique mall, and it was pretty cheap, only five bucks. It's been my main splitter for a while now, unfortunately I've no recent photos. Those coins were treasured for years, but now I'm not sure where they are. I really need to get a Word document typed out so I know where everything is. If it is in the 2x2, it'll be in my US coin graveyard album since I don't collect them much anymore. I might end up selling a lot of them when I'm at home over break, if I decide to do so keep an eye out- I'll probably sell them for a good price since I've forgotten what I'd paid for most of them.
Hi I'm new here and need a little guidance. I have some pristine coins in my possession earliest I found so far is a Thomas Jefferson 1801 through 1809. Can you assist me with any knowledge that I can post it and see what they're worth.
