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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24848051, member: 26430&quot;]I still have most of my first purchases. From the mid 1980s to early 1990s (about 8 -12 years old), I used to save up all year and buy one or occasionally 2 coins (depending on how many people hired me to mow lawns or, once I was in Tucson, tend to their cacti).</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have most of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Summer 1986 or 1988 (?): Athens Tetradrachm</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this one in Paris, somewhere on <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=vivienne+numismatique+paris" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=vivienne+numismatique+paris" rel="nofollow">Rue Vivienne</a> while on a trip with my parents. (Prob. from Claude Burgan; I asked if he spoke English to which he replied, &quot;from time to time&quot; or similar; he gave me a free&nbsp; Commodus Dupondius too.) </p><p><br /></p><p>If not my first coin, at least one of the first three I bought:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592289[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Summer 1991 (?): Corinth Stater</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this one at Glass Shoppe Coins in Tucson shortly after moving there when I was 12 or 13 years old. Many years later I discovered it was from the Pozzi (1846-1918) Collection and sold at <i>Naville - Ars Classica</i> I (Lucerne, 14 March 1921).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s still probably my favorite coin. But I&#039;ve driven myself half crazy trying to find out where it was between 1921 and 1991 and how it ended up in Tucson:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592294[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>22 November 1991: Aegina Drachm</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>This one was my first auction win, from Colosseum Coin Exchange MBS 59 (22 Nov 1991), Lot 2. (Ira Teitelbaum in Hazlet, NJ, active c. 1980-2001.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592306[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually lost the catalog sometime in the mid 90s after moving (my parents might&#039;ve thrown away my sale catalogs, thinking they were &quot;just advertising,&quot; not realizing they were reference literature).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592309[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, to my delight, I received a copy in group lot of BCD Library Duplicates in 2022. I was even more excited to learn it was ex-Malter Library. Joel Malter died the day after his legendary library was sold, 4-5 June 2006 (Malter Auction 88). This catalog was probably in one of the large group lots (numbered boxes) of sale catalogs:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592310[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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