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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8120249, member: 110350&quot;]I have no idea what the first coin I ever bought was. Probably a British penny, halfpenny, or farthing before I was 10 years old. Or perhaps one of the silver dollars I &quot;bought&quot; at the age of 7 or 8, on one of the couple of occasions when my parents would give me a 5-dollar bill and I would walk to the local bank a couple of blocks away, hand it to the teller, and ask for five silver dollars in exchange. Which one could do until 1964, I believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here are the first two ancient coins&nbsp; I ever purchased as an adult, both at the same coin show somewhere in Manhattan in the mid-1980s, at a time when I was pretty much exclusively a collector of British coins. Why? Pure impulse; they caught my eye and didn&#039;t cost much.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413789[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413790[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the next 30 years, I bought perhaps a dozen more ancient coins, but I didn&#039;t really start collecting them actively until 2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: your first ancient coin, continued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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