What was your First world coin?

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Spanish Pesetas, 5, 25 and 50. 1957 year type. Mom and dad were living there in the 70's.

 

I kept a bunch of change from a trip to Canada when I was a kid. I think I still have a dollar bill from that trip too. Did the same thing on a trip to Jamaica around the same time, can't remember which trip was first though.

 

Hi! my first coin was a 1903 US1$ Morgan UNC, given to me by my father during my late teens, that started me off to collect more coins, and more and more, now 25 years later, it really is still hard to stop

 

I grew up in Southern California and the lady that raised me (and my father when he was a baby) was named Kita. She gave me an EF 1-Peso from Estados Unidos Mexicanos dated 1958. It is the size of a US silver dollar. I was in grade school at the time & I still have it today. I also have a half dozen others that I received when she died a few years later. I still have them. I don't know which one was the first one but I have them all. I didn't really take an interest in world coins until 40 years later.

 

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My grandfather was a sailor, in the merchant marine. He kept all his spare change from his travels in a cookie tin. Mostly northern European, South African, Hong Kong. When I got a little earlier, I was able to reconstruct the routes he sailed at various times.

Apparently, he started in the North Atlantic just before and during the war, then did a route around the horn of Africa, to India and Hong Kong. Then, before he retired, it looks like he did a bunch of South American runs. This was later confirmed by my dad. (I could be off a bit, its been a while)

 

My first world coin was from Canada. I went to Canada on family vacation in 1985 and my dad gave each of us kids some Canadian change at the end of the trip. A quarter, dime, nickel, and 2 pennies.

 

I pretty sure it was either a few polish coins, or a few english coins.

 

Very interesting thread! My first was a Kennedy half which got me interested in collecting in the first place.

 

Mumba your first coins would then be those quarters.. :goofer:

 

For me it was some American coins from when we went to live out there for a couple of years. The most interesting thing I came accross was a penny from 1944. Sadly, I never came accross anyone who was ever daft enough to give me any <1965 silver in my change.....

 

In terms of coins from another country, it was some Dutch piece. As a kid I really liked their tiny 10 cent (dubbeltje) coins.

When it comes to "world" coins, it was a few Canadian and US coins as far as I remember. Back then I found it odd and difficult that the American pieces would "hide" the value by using words instead of digits.

Christian

 

technically u r right... but i never saved any of the circulating us coins till the day i found the ike.. which i still hold on to... even the cents from mcdonald outings were spent for some (sentimental) reasons the ike is a big treasure for me

 

Two Ancient Roman's. Augustus and Xavier I believe.

 

Post 'em up! There's no emperor Xavier, so I'm curious.

 

Busted him Arda.....Arda I loved your grandpa sailor story. Traci )