Do any of you still have some nice coins from your early days as a collector?

I started collecting around 1960 and began to buy coins from dealers around 1963. I sold a lot of pieces in the early 1970s when I thought I was a dealer, but I still have a few of those pieces left. Here are few of them.

I bought this 1900 $2.50 gold piece from Rogers Photo which was located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It was around 1965. The breat and butter for the store was photographic supplies, but the ower also bought and sold a few coins. It was graded "BU" back then. Today it's in an NGC MS-62 holder.



I bought this 1853 half cent from the coin counter at Gimbels Department store in Philadelphia. Believe it or not, the grade maked on it was "VF." Today it's in an NGC MS-62, Brown holder.



This 1832 dime was one of my favorites. I'm afraid that I messed with it when I was kid so it's kind of messed up now. It is still raw.



This 1928 $2.50 gold is in my raw Indian Quarter eagle set.



This was my first $20 gold piece. I bought this in 1964. It is now in an NGC MS-64 holder.

 

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Depends on my definition of my "early days" I guess. I collected US coins for 30 years from 5 to 35 with enthusiasm and no money, and now ancients for 22 years. From my US days I still have SL halves XF to AU, bust halves AU, roll of BU 1939 D nickels, etc. Decent collection considering my income I suppose. No gold, my only gold coins I bought after income went up.

 

Define early days.
I'd say yes because I rarely ever sell, but the early days I didn't have much money...no money, like Driver Carries NO Cash because he's married money even Years after the divorce

 

I have some Ike Proof Dollars and some Mint/Proof sets from the 1970's given as Christmas or Birthday presents.

Still have my original 1/10th oz. Krugerrand that I bought in 1981 with the excess tuition from my freshman year of college. That is my actual 1st purchase of a coin that I can recall -- before that, just gifts.

 

Yes! Most all of the Lincoln cents in my Whitman were sourced from school lunch money in the early 70's. I had a small dealer between my school and my house. He had a big jar and if I remember correctly I could get either two or three wheats from that jar for a nickel.... Of course the rare dates weren't filled until I was a grown man but the majority of those wheats can be traced back to a pimple faced coin addicted kid that skipped many school lunches to fill his Whitman.

 

I didn't collect nice coins in my early days. Strictly from circulation. I have most of them still - wheat cents and Jefferson nickels.

 

Yep, no motto Saint Gaudens super nice!

 

This is my first coin given to me in 1948 by my aunt. It started the hobby and I still have it. Like most collectors, I never bought coins, I found them in circulation.

 

Unfortunately no as my ex wife sold my entire collection.

 

I still have some wheaties that I got from my father and a few Franklin's that my grandmother gave me back in the '60s. I passed many on to nieces and nephews but still have some, but they have been mixed in with a few purchases I have made over the years.