BU 1925 Cent Contest

wow, awesome prize! I'll definitley enter this one!
The first coin I ever purchased was a 1932 Canadian cent in MS RB. I think part of me wanted the coin and part of me wanted the slab. I had no idea what I was doing. Haha
I guess a long time ago I bought some Mexican pesos off my uncle when I finished going through his change bin. That was probably 10 years ago or so.
I still have the pesos and the 1932. Actually. That 1932 is the only coin that resides in my registry. Haha I'm rather low on the list.
Thanks for the chance at the 1925!
Thanks Matt

 

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My first coin purchased was picked from the local coin shop's "junk silver" box back when I was a paperboy in the mid seventies. I liked the coin because it was "old". it was a 1784 French Ecu that had "H. B. BACON NOV. 26 1876" hand carved into the face of it. It really never fit into anything I collect and I sold it to a friend a couple of years ago. I never really missed it until he gave a talk at the last club meeting on "Foreign American Coinage", those coins that were legal tender in the early days of the United States. He had a round table type talk where he passed around the coins that he talked about. Sure enough, there was that first purchase of mine. He offered to sell it back to me but it really seemed to belong with that special collection of period coinage.

Richard

 

My first purchase was from a friend of mine back when neither of us were aware of the true values of many coins. He has a fairly large silver and gold collection, but I couldn't afford the gold, so he offered me a deal on a 1922 Peace Dollar. It looked so shiny and nice, little did I know it had been polished by someone at some point in time. But I bought it for super cheap, a price lower than melt (what were we thinking!?!). I wasn't trying to rip him off, we were both pretty oblivious to the facts back then, and this was only a year ago!

Thanks for the contest!

 

Thanks for the contest.

I started collecting about 5 or 6 years ago for my grandson who was born in 1996. The first coins I bought were for his birthyear. Just so happens 1996 is a good year for ASE's. I bought the unc for way less than what it sell for now, around $10 at the time from APMEX. Along with that I bought him a PCGS MS-69 1996 $5 gold eagle for $52.

Since then the collection has grown tremendously. I sure have learned a lot since then too and I pass all that knowledge on to him. :thumb:

 

The first coin I ever bought was a 1901 Morgan Dollar and another Morgan, can't remember the date on that one. Why? I was just starting out collecting, it seemed like alot of people were collecting them, so decided why not and bought 2. I really like the design also.

Thanks for the contest!!

 

Back when I was a little kid, probably about 7 or 8, I bought a wheat penny from one of my friends for two cents. I had an offer with most of my friends at school that I would pay them double for any wheat cents they found. The first one I got was a 1947 P. Nothing too special, but I was lucky enough to get a single 1909 VDB from circulation. I think in total I had gotten around 15 wheat pennies. Those were good times.

 

Although I did some collecting as a kid, it was all out of circulation. As I became interested in the hobby again over the last couple of months, I tried to decide what coins I wanted to collect, and even still haven't decided. However, while browsing a local antique store, I found a small case with a number of foreign coins in it. One of them caught my interest: a 1905 10 Ces Royaume de Beligique. It isn't in great condition, and the design isn't that complicated, but for some reason I like it. I payed 5 dollars for it, probably way too much, but oh well. In addition, at 1905 it is now the oldest coin in my collection:goofer:.

 

First one I ever bought was an '09 VDB. I had pulled a few wheaties out of circulation and came across the '09 and just had to have it, I don't really know why I just did.

 

The first coin I had ever bought was an 1855 Half Dime, and I was 10. The reason I had gotten is is because my great grandfather had been talking to me about how different the modern day coinage is, and how he used to be able to get lunch and a snack for about a nickel. Then he continued to tell me stories of how his father's father would work for a day and get a half dime, and then I said to my great grandfather don't you mean a nickel? He explained no, they used to make a half dime it was slightly smaller than the dime, which was a lot of money back then. In pure amazement I asked if there was somewhere where we could get one of these "half dimes," and he said yes and we went to a coin store...This is what started my coin collection!

 

Started collecting when I was nine - kept going to a local bank and getting rolls to search for wheats, got a few Ikes; simple stuff like that. The oldest thing I had at the time was a 1941 merc dime I had found in the park a few years before. I kept bugging my parents to take me to a local coin shop and they agreed but not before they got me a Red Book. I read the thing cover to cover so they did end up taking me. Once we got there, I obviously wanted to buy everything the guy was selling but one set caught my eye especially. It was a little plastic case with a 1963 Unc. Franklin and a 1964 Unc. Kennedy. Since up to that point I only had modern stuff from the bank, it was really exciting to see a Franklin half so I got that set first. Then I went on to get a few very circulated indian head cents, V nickels, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes and steel cent. I moved the coins into 2x2 holders right away, but I still have the little plastic case.

Nice stroll down memory lane. Great contest idea.

 

Thanks for the contest! Mine was a 1909 VDB in ~MS65 condition. I had always wanted one and I finally took the plunge. Ended up getting body bagged at pcgs as questionable color...

 

nice contest
hmmm, the first coins i bought (coins because i bought them both at the same time) were a 1935 Mercury Dime and a 1939 Mercury Dime. I found the '35 first, so i guess if you really want to get technical, that was the first. I bought them when i had 3 hours to kill before a soccer game, so i was walking around the town where my dad works and wandered into an antique store. I saw them for $2 each, which i thought was a pretty good deal, so i bought them. I still have them too, i'm probably going to put the pictures in an album on here soon...

 

I consider myself to have "bought" (for face value) every coin I removed from circulation with the intent of "collecting" it.

On that basis I guess my first purchase was the BU 1943D Walking Liberty I put away in '43. I won't say it's the first mintmark I ever saw, but as an Ohio pre-teen at the time, it was absolutely the first one I ever consciously noticed.

 

My first "bought" coin was a "1922 BU Peace $" many years before the internet, from Mt. Vernon Coins. What did I know then? Less than now. It is still with me and is AU55, dipped several times, but it was the "Lure".

Jim

 

lets see...

Well, my first mentionable coin I got in my collection was a 1942 merc, I found it in some of our change and was bouncing off the walls that night .

My first purchased coin a trio of 1948 (P&D) and 1955 Franklin. I first went to the coin store to find a wide array of strange looking bullion, and 1800's gold and silver. Seeing all this, I was awestruck, I couldn't think really. My dealer suggested the classic "Buy the book before the coin" and I did, a 2008 RedBook. At the time (and still now) I was a Benjamin Franklin enthusiast, and when I saw the Franklin Half, I was amazed. I went to the store again the next day and asked if they had any Franklins, they told me they were in the back. The dealer was thrilled to see such a young collector as I was, and gave me a HE Harris Franklin folder free I looked and saw that 1948 was first, and thought that logically, I should buy the first ones. I got the 1948 P&D for $7 a piece (silver had just reached it's peak, there were a lot of people selling their bullion that day). The guy then told me that it was smart to buy the key date first, which made sense to me. He told me that 1955 was the one, and I spent $25 on it, making it my highest amount spent on a coin to date. I still love those coins, no matter how little they and their series is, they will always be one of my favorites.


THANKS FOR THE CONTEST!!!!!

 

Great contest, I love reading how others got started:

In the Summer of 1986, when I was still young, my grandfather sent our family a box of stuff from MA to us in TX. There were some pictures in it for my mom and dad, a ukelele for my sister and a 25 pound box of wheat cents in it for me. Along with those wheaties was an corroded ancient copper and 4 cull large cents. Two had holes in the center and 1835 and 1852. My father remembered prying them out of derelict barns as a child. The other two were culled out draped bust cents. The only thing I could tell was the general outline of the woman and a couple of letters of Liberty on the obv and most of the reverse is visible. Well, I had never seen anything like this before so I hounded and hounded my dad to take me to a shop so I could see more coins like this. He finally relented and took me to a coin store, that sadly is no longer there, and I purchased an 1836 Large cent in VG because it was soooooo unbelievably cool. I still have all those coins and just now took them out for another look see.

 

My first buy was an 1897 IHC at a show two years ago. I paid two dollars for it and it is in g4 condition so I guess I overpaid a little but it has led me to get really into the hobby so I will always keep it.

 

The first coin for me was an ASE Proof. I would have to dig through the safe to get the year but it is easy to remember that was the first. My Mom gave me three early years Bullion ASE's for my birthday one year and I was hooked! I love the design and still think it is one of the best coins the mint puts out these days! If you like beautiful designs and big silver coins you cannot go wrong!

Thanks for the contest!

Darryl

 

Mmmmm.. this is a toughie... I believe the first coin I ever purchased was a Standing Liberty Quarter at a flea market when I was around 8 years old. My mom and I went to the flea market and she gave me some money to buy some coins. I picked out the Standing Liberty and bought it. Afterwards, I was leaning on the glass case looking at some other coins and I broke the dealer's glass case. It was one of those small hand-carrying cases, but it certainly packed a punch! It cut my elbow quite a bit. My mom offered to buy the case, but the dealer was very nice and told her "No, these things happen". I certainly learned a valuable lesson about leaning on those glass cases!!!

I remember that I bought the Standing Liberty Quarter because I'd never seen anything like it and I remember thinking it looked "old timey". That was around 40 years ago and the SLQ is still one of my favorite coins!!

 

My first coin was a 1835 large cent toned really dark but with great detail. Liked it because it was different then any other cent I had ever seen. Paid $12 and I was 10 yrs old. Still have it today. Thanks for the contest..