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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2900708, member: 10461"]In keeping with the "Mercury" theme (and Thanksgiving, to be seasonal): This is the coin which launched my numismatic adventure. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1936-mercury-dime-first-in-my-childhood-collection-from-1976.6152/full?d=1493273228" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, when I was not quite 11 years old, we were at my grandmother's house and I was asked to set the table for the upcoming feast. Grandmomma pointed out where the silverware drawer was in a huge old sideboard in the dining room of her grand old Atlanta house. In that drawer, I found a 1936 Mercury dime! It seemed incredibly ancient to me at the time.  Forty years old!  Wow!  Now more than forty years have elapsed since I found it. I also found a 1948 Franklin half that had been shot with a bullet, and a 1943 steel cent. (Grandmomma let me keep the steelie but not the Frankie- that was a souvenir of some uncle's marksmanship and had apparently been shot in the air, Annie Oakley style.) This 1936 Merc dime certainly won't win any "best coin" competitions, but being the sentimental creature that I am, I have kept it to this day. Continue with the "Mercury" or "Winged headdress" theme, OR post the first coin you had in your collection, if you still have it, or a picture of it.[/QUOTE]

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