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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4243975, member: 99456&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - a nice post, thanks for sharing!&nbsp; I&#039;ve shared my first coin <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-the-first-and-most-recent-coins-in-your-collection.329341/page-2#post-3275645" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-the-first-and-most-recent-coins-in-your-collection.329341/page-2#post-3275645">before</a>, acquired when I was a kid living in Italy - as you describe, &quot;I thought it was completely amazing to hold in my hands a coin made more than 1,700 years earlier&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1083505[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Valerian I</b>, Sestertius, 253-254, Rome</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP C P LIC VALERIANV PF AVG; Valerian I, laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> FELICITAS AVGG / S C, Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and cornucopia</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First coin as an adult is this one - bought when I was living in the UK in the 90&#039;s from a mail order&nbsp; &quot;coins-on-approval&quot; service.&nbsp; &nbsp; This was the first and last coin I bought from that service - the coin was sold to me as a Claudius II and I think I paid 25GBP for it (certainly not a great investment - although it did come with a nice wood box):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1083836[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Aurelian</b>, AD 270-275, Siscia ~AD 271, Antoninianus</p><p><b>Obv: </b> IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> CONCORDIA MILI / Q (officina 4) in exergue, two Concordiae standing facing each other, holding three standards</p><p><b>Size: </b>4.08g, 21x19mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Although neither coin wins any awards for beauty, value or rarity, both still favorites as tokens that link not only to the ancient history but also to personal memories of people and places.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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