Well for me back when I was a kid I got this from a small pawn shop the guy was kind , he knew my mom and sold it to me for about maybe 6$ maybe less hey so tell me what was your very first coin purchase?? Sent from my C6740N using Tapatalk
Mine was a 1917S reverse Walking Liberty. It was a cull and I paid $10 for it. Got ripped off as spot silver was $14.20 at the time. I didn't know what I was doing. I won't get rid of it though.
It was an 1898 IHC. I'll try to find it and post it on this thread later. Back when I was 9 years old... and I'm turning 14 in August. Here's to 4.5 years of collecting! My best coin obtainment? An 1888-S Morgan dollar (semi-key date) in AU from a family friend who passed away last year. Monetary value? About $180. Sentimental value? Absolutely priceless.
My first that I remember was a 1915 (P) Barber half dollar. Didn't really know it was a semi key date. Paid the guy $80 for it. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
This was the first in my collection but it was a gift from my grandad This one was the first one I bought with "my own money". Of course I think I was about 8 or 9 at the time so it was really still my parents money. I got it from a junk box at an old antique store in my hometown and was just fascinated that the date started with "18" instead of "19". I paid $2 for it around 1993ish. Wow time flies.
It was 1957, but to be perfectly honest, it didn't cost me anything. I won the money playing 9-Ball at the local poolroom. Chris
I don't have a clue. It was probably a roll of junk dimes when I decided to start expanding beyond bullion. I do remember the first gold coin. It was an Italian 20 lire which I posted to the "follow the leader" thread.
My parents bought my first coins when I still had only a single digit age, so I don't exactly remember the first one. A sewing machine shop in a neighboring town had a small room in the back with coins for sale. I wandered in there on my own one day and came out with cool old stuff from the 1800s. Thus a lifetime obsession began. If the proprietor, who I heard passed away some time ago, wanted to interest a kid in coins, he did an excellent job. In any case, the very first was probably one of the sandblasted, worn thin Liberty Nickels that I still have from my spoiled youth. But which one was the absolute first, I have no idea. A great aunt also gave me a worn Barber quarter and Half around the same time. I really wanted to get her birth year in a Liberty Nickel, but, guess what, she was born in 1913. Let's just say I never acquired one. But I did learn all about the ultra rare 1913 Liberty nickel before I even broke age 10.
The first coin I purchased was when I was eight yrs old (i just turned 54 a couple weeks ago). I had been saving Lincoln Cents (wheat cents) and Jefferson Nickels for a little while, until I convinced my dad to take me to the local coin store. I remember speaking to the owner about coins and bought a 1920-S Buffalo Nickel (with my own money). I still have that coin.
Mine was an older women whom I'd admired longingly from afar for what seemed an eternity......Oh dear. We's talkin' coins? Never mind........carry on fellows.
This one...and the dealer refused to sell it to me until I could prove to his satisfaction that I knew what I was buying. Imagine that, a dealer who actually cared more about teaching a new collector than he cared about making a sale!
My first collector coins were sales tax tokens given to me by my grandfather when I was in my teens. Didn't really start collecting on my own until I was in my 30's and could afford it. Still have my grandfather's tokens though. Cal
