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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3289110, member: 10461&quot;]<b></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>First: </b>Found on November 25, 1976, in the top drawer of my grandmother&#039;s sideboard, while I was getting the silverware out to set the table for Thanksgiving dinner.&nbsp; I was not quite 11 years old.&nbsp; Still have the coin, somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1936-mercury-dime-first-in-my-childhood-collection-found-1976.6152/full?d=1493273228" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS- sorry- I just noticed you meant first <i>ancient</i>.&nbsp; I have no recollection of what that was, but think it was a post-Gupta bronze from India I got in a small lot from Guy Clark in the early 1980s, when I was a young teen.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Most recent:</b> Just pulled the trigger on this ca. 130-131 AD Hadrian tetradrachm from Alexandria, making it my first coin purchase of 2019.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/alexandriahadriantet-jpg.869659/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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