What was the 1st non US coin you collected??

Here is the 1st non us coin I collected. it cost me 2 week pay as a paperboy in 1962 to buy it.

 

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My first coin was a non-US coin, a Vietnamese 10 dong that my father gave me after coming home from SE Asia. Some 35 or so years later, still have it.

 

In the "good olde days", I got a 5 peso gold piece at a bank in Mexico - family vacation with my folks.

In my "modern era", I picked up a handful of aluminum kopecks from a parking lot in Moscow.

 

Well practicaly all of my 1st coins were non US LOL as I am British

 

well i didnt collect the first us coin till 1984 summer. and it was a wahington quarter

 

I don't have any dongs in my collection but I do remember the first Non-United States coin I got... A 1 ghirsh from Saudi Arabia.

 

Took a couple of years, after I started collecting, until I got my first US coin. My first piece? Don't quite remember, but something from around here, something that could be picked from circulation, thus a German (Fed.Rep.) coin. Probably followed by a Dutch piece, as NL is around the corner so to say. But I don't remember which ones ...

Christian

 

Curiously I have a pile of mostly German and Austrian change from my multiple trips there. I vow to take it back and spend it soon.

 

I can't remember, I was 8 at the time.

 

Mine is a 1959 Canadian Half. Got it when I was a paperboy in '59. It must have just entered circulation because it was really nice. Still have it!

 

I'll have to say German Marks. But not from when I was serving over in Germany. But from after looking at what I had come home home with, years later...

 

Venezuelan 5 Bolivar, 1911 better known as a "fuerte"

 

Coin French Franc and Centimes many amounts
Paper: Italian Lira 1000 note

 

I didn't have A first. But about 20 at one time. A former neighor of mine was older and traveled a lot and I guess he collected coins. Anyway, one day he gave me a little sack of world coins that he collected. I was about 7 years old at the time. I haven't seen him since I was 8 because I moved. He passed on a few years ago and I will always cherish those coins.

 

While my story is not romantic ( Spanish Shipwreck ), in Detroit, 15 minutes from Canada, I started Canadian small cents and Silver dollars from circulation as a kid. Still have em too.

Trivia.......Detroit is the only city in the lower 48 you can go SOUTH to Canada......google the map. I did it to get beer when they changed MI's laws to 21 years of age, Canada was still 18

 

well if thats a diff story than the doubloon i want to hear all of it from the beginning to the end

 

I guess the first non U.S. coin that I collected was Canadian small cents. I almost had my Whitman folder full from 1920 to (I think) 1968. I have no idea where they are..lol

 

Doug, I never knew you were a deep-sea diver. Where was this wreck, and did you find it yourself?

 

I really have no idea. I am actually not a foreign coin collector. However, every place I've ever worked had people from all over the world. As I mentioned I collected coins, someone would bring me some of thier coins from thier country and give them to me. Slowly I ended up with boxes full of them. Some years back I attempted to put them in 2x2's and then in those 2 row cardboard boxes. I attempted to write on the 2x2's what they were but found out I had no idea. So many don't have anything in English on them.
Now why don't they put thier coins in English so I could know what I've got.
Some day someone will inherit these and go nuts trying to figure it all out.