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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4957889, member: 10461&quot;]Gee whiz, man, you should put a warning in your title.&nbsp; That thing just made my eyes pop out of their sockets! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> It is absolutely <i>stunning</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>My longest-held?</p><p><br /></p><p>I acquired this 1936 dime on November 25, 1976.&nbsp; It was Thanksgiving Day.&nbsp; We were at my grandmother&#039;s house.&nbsp; It was quite the Norman Rockwell scene.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_from_Want" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_from_Want" rel="nofollow">*</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I found the coin in Grandmomma&#039;s sideboard drawer, while getting out the silverware after being asked to set the table.&nbsp; She let me keep it, of course.&nbsp; I still have it... somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was ten years old at the time, and the coin was 40 years old, which seemed quite ancient to me then.&nbsp; Now I have owned it for longer than that.</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><br /></p><p>That dime started me out as a collector.&nbsp; A month later, I got this 1827 half dollar for my 11th birthday, on December 28, 1976. I still have it, too.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1827-capped-bust-half-dollar-square-base-2-from-my-childhood-collection-1976.6153/full?d=1493273393" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those two above are the only remainders of my childhood collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>This half-sovereign from the Terner collection has the longest tenure in my present collection.&nbsp; I acquired it in 2003.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/Z8mdVrRjSaGGJRHr95kq_1901-Terner%20HS-800x500-label.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>*<b>Edit: </b>I apologize- I know these are not ancients.&nbsp; I came to ancients relatively late, only seriously starting with them in 2007.&nbsp; Though I date my seniority as an ancients collector from 2007, I did have a few before then.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t tell you what the first one was.&nbsp; I suspect it was a reasonably nice Probus antoninianus which a Jordanian family friend had found in her home country and given to me.&nbsp; Being a dumb teenager at the time, I stupidly scrubbed the patina off of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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