Anyone remember there very FIRST coin they collected?

I know what mine is but i cant tell because whoever guesses it in a contest thread wins something. But i was curious if anyone else remembers there very first coin. Do you still have it?

 

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The first coin I bought for more than face value was an 1898 IHC for $2.25.

Yes, I do still have it somewhere. I also have the first wheat I found a circulation, a 1939-S.

 

DUDE THAT IS AWESOME! my family learned i collect coins and all they gave me was was a book and said reading is a better hobby

 

I do. My mom gave me a Franklin half to buy lunch at school in 1968. I had never seen a half dollar before. I went hungry that day. And yes I do still have the half.

 

A Franklin from New England Rare Coin Galleries. I don't remember the date but it only cost $10. I have no idea what happened to it.

 

A pair of VG SLQs I found in an old bank in my grandmother's things when I was young. I still have them.

 

The first coin I ever purchased was in 1971. A 1920-S Buffalo Nickel. It is in a Dansco Buffalo Nickel coin album, and has been for 30 years.

 

A raw uncirculated U.S. 1943 Steel cent bought for $1 at a coin table somewhere in Western PA where I grew up.

I looked it up the other day and saw that it was still worth a dollar LOL.

 

First coin I ever bought was this one--and only after I was able to satisfy the local dealer that I had learned enough about coins to tell him why I wanted this one instead of another one was he willing to sell it to me...

WOW, imagine that. A dealer who actually cared more about whether or not the coin I wanted was the right one or not instead of simply making a sale!

 

Now that is quite an impressive first coin!

 

My first coin was an 1851 large cent I found in a field while arrow head hunting with my dad. It was some time in 1998 probably. The interest didnt catch at first, but I found a 1907 barber dime in another field a couple of months later and got interested and started buying mercury dimes in an antique store for 50 cents after that and the rest is history, so they say.

 

For me it was plural; coins. One of my uncles had a mid sized accumulation that contained a bunch of wheat cents, a handful of Morgan's and other misc. silver. It was all in this old wooden five drawer cabinet. When I turned 12, he gave the whole thing to me. Been in this hobby ever since. I sold most of the coins off through the years, but still have one of the Morgan's as it was my great-grandfathers birth year and my uncle made sure I knew it.

 

My mother had a couple of quart jars half full of silver, buffalo nickels, etc, that she had pulled from circulation. I'd pour them out on the bed and play with them as a kid. But my first purchase was a peace dollar from an ad. I'm not sure of the company, and I doubtless overpaid. But I received a very nice 1922 dollar, it has a bag mark in the left field, but otherwise it has great luster and light gold toning. 20-some years later, I still remember examining and marveling at that coin. Hooked.

 

Gosh, Mine also was in 1976 except around July/August.
My parents were putting in a wood fence. they pulled off the grass and I was just digging a small hole (as they were digging big holes for the wood fence posts) and I found the mercury dime that is in my avatar in the ground. No metal detector needed.

 

Thanks...55 years later and it is still one of my favorite coins with that magical 7 in the date. Cost me 4 dollars and 25 cents. Which while it was a LOT of empty pop bottles to pick up at 2 cents a piece I had plenty of time to read and talk to the dealer in order to acquire the necessary knowledge to buy it from him.

 

First coin? That's about 50+ some years ago. My best guess would be one of my Mercury dimes snagged from a penny-arcade floor. I was just learning about how the silver in the dimes was more valuable than ice cream so I kept them.

 

A 1985 $25 coin from the British Virgin islands. I still have it. It has never toned at all.

 

I can't say which one would have been first, but yes, I still have the first coin I ever collected. It would be one of many Lincoln cents that filled my Whitman folders in the late 1950s. I remember how impressed I was when I got my first one with the Memorial on the reverse. That's in my folder too... soon it'll have been in there 60 years.