Who Here Still Has Something Coin Related That Goes Back to the Very Beginnings of Their Collecting?

Great thread Ken , the only thing I have left are the wheaties and some Morgan and Peace dollars that my Dad gave me and a nice MS 1857 1/2 Dime he also gave me . I just wish I had all the Morgans I spent at carnivals and on comic books .

 

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This thread is a lot of fun Ken...something like the Pillsbury dough boy going to a baking convention (so the commercial says). No picture, but I do have a holed 1803 Half Cent my dad gave me many years ago. She's ugly but so beautiful...good memories.

Bruce

 

I got started when I inherited my grandfather's (Pappy's) collection when I was ten years old. In addition to a bunch of IHC and Lincoln cents, he had several foreign coins with them in a shoe box. Here are some of those foreign coins.

 

As I posted in another thread, this is the coin that got me into serious coin collecting. I was searching through a huge jar of coin that my parents had been setting aside for at least 15 years and I found this in there. I kept it because it surprised me to see a wheat, let alone a 1926-D amongst all the 1980's era coinage. Its not pretty, but it's a keeper.

 

A lot of the coins shown though maybe not in the best condition are priceless . Links to your families past is something you really can't buy . That's why my wheatie collection is anywhere from G-VF . All I'm missing is the S-VDB , which I dreamt I was going to find .

 

Forgot to put a lol after that last sentence .

 

Still have most of the coins

After about 3-4 years of collecting, I finally decided I needed my own copy of the Charlton catalog, prior to that I was on a first name basis with the local library....picked this up and I was quite please with myself for saving $2.50 off of the regular price ->more money for coins......

 

I received a 1976 Kennedy Half from my grandfather in either 1976 or 1977, I forget which because I was just a wee lad I've kept it safe since then. It isn't the oldest coin in my collection, but it is the first. Just checked it out reading this thread and recalled why I started. Great question to ask! Thanks for the memories.
-L

 

I still have my first Blue Book and Red Book from 1961, a couple of Lincoln albums, mostly full except for the keys, a Jefferson and buffalo nickel album. We use to pull a lot of buffalo nickels from circulation in those days, including a 1926-s found in a roll.

 

Thanks for checkin' in Bob......

 

I think somewhere I have my first redbook. 1976 centennial edition, hardcover, (all were back then), and used so much the covers are detached. This is the mark of a well loved book.

 

When I look through my Lincoln album I almost get sick.

It was quite common to still find pre 1930 Lincoln's in AU condition while roll hunting. But, being stupid kids, my brother and I bought some sort of solvent or coin cleaner from the coin shop along with a brush and cleaned the living heck out of all the Lincoln's......... need it or not.

I'd love to go back and revisit that move. Lot of nice coins ruined.

 

I did my thread about this topic last Christmas Eve.

Lehigh's Childhood Liberty Nickel Collection

 

All of us were there sir. Collectively collectors might have destroyed more coins than circulation unfortunately. This is why I like we have drummed it into new collectors to never clean coins. Sometimes, though, we have "drummed" too far and advanced collectors will not accept that if you know what you are doing you can help some coins.

 

I still have my first two coins: an 1897-S Morgan and a 1908-P Morgan, both AU58 and both slabbed by NGC.

 

I'm hoping to be able to pass mine down to my grandson born this year. He already has a 5 oz ATB puck.

 

I still have many old world coins that were given to me by my late grandmother, the first coin I ever bought for my collection which is a common 1883 V Nickel in about XF and several notes.

 

These are the earliest receipts I could find. The top one was for a South Africa Krugerrand.