Do you remember the first collectible coin you owned?

wow, I cringed reading this! Its was a great trade at the time!

 

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It wasn't collectable back then, but in the first grade (1964), I found a silver dime on the playground. I turned it in to the principal. He taped it to an index card, and if nobody reported it lost, I could have it at the end of the day. I remember carrying it home, thinking I was the luckiest kid in the world.

 

My great grandfather was a collector for many years. When I was about 11 he pulled his collection out and showed it to me and told me about some of the coins he had.

A lot of Morgans, Walker halves, Franklins, had some Barbers and SLQs, a few seated libertys.

One coin, he pulled out, was in a 2x2. He acquired it when he went west to Nevada as a young man. He was working for the railroad company as a surveyor and he went into one of the saloons still in business. While there, he decided to play some poker with some of the rail layers. They were playing table stakes, which basically means what you have in your pocket is what your limit is. They got down to the last hand, and everyone had folded except grampeer and this other fellow. He had all in except for one piece he pulled from his pocket.

An 1884-CC $20 gold piece. Grampeer won it with four aces to the other guys two pair.

That was the most beautiful coin I ever saw. Right next to that in grampeer's album was an 1884-CC silver dollar.

Grampeer gave me that silver dollar, and told me this I pass on to you along with the passion for coin collecting which I've enjoyed for over 45 years.

I still have that coin.

The gold coin was sold at auction when grampeer died, not sure for how much, but I can only imagine.

 

I can relate to this Pmom. When I was 17 I took about 30 mercury dimes out of my dansco and bought taco bell with it. I believe this was a good thing because it really added fuel to my fire to recap the loss. I'm now 2 merc dimes short of filling my dansco.

 

Hello Kentucky,

I will try to give you a straight answer. The cent struck on a struck dime is commonly called an 11 cent piece. It is by no means a common error but there are examples known for most every date & mintmark (not proof) throughout all clad coinage. These errors typically sell for between $700 and $2,000 depending upon the venue & number of agressive bidders. No two 11 cent piece coins are identical. I own a few clad 11 cent pieces but they are not the same date as the one depicted. There have been previous threads and BIN Ebay auction listings suggesting that the owner of the depicted coin seeks millions of dollars for the example.

 

One could almost argue that no two same denominated coins are actually identical. Same goes for most error coins, they're all unique and almost one of a kind when you look at the fine details of each. That's why the owner of the 11 cent piece pointed out is out of their mind for trying to sell at the price they're setting. I'd rather buy that 1933 Double Eagle if I was going to spend that amount of money on a coin, which is a true one of a kind since it's the only one that exists of that denomination and strike.

 

After grandmom passed away, we were cleaning out her old house in Delaware and ended up finding a nice 1851 large cent in a soap dish, probably close to MS60-61 BRN. And my second find was that 1913 Liberty Nickel in the corn fields of Virginia.