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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 173218, member: 5719&quot;]The coin shop inside the department store... yes, that brings back memories of Abraham and Strauss having one-- a coin and stamp shop, actually-- in their Woodbridge Center (NJ) store.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure my tiny purchases there were annoying.&nbsp; But it was a lot of money for me!</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t say exactly which coin it was that I bought with my own money (there is a difference when you&#039;re a kid!) but I think it might have been a coin from the Congo (Kinsasha) with a lion nearly filling up the obverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; The first US coins probably would have been Lincoln Cents to help fill in that first Whitman folder. </p><p><br /></p><p>The most monumental purchase I made as a youngster was a 1904-O Morgan in BU for the princely sum of $8.95 plus shipping, from a fellow named Jon Palmer out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas via mail order.&nbsp; I&#039;d bought some Lincoln Cents from him previously and decided it was time to take the plunge and the risk sending a money order for more than $9 to him.&nbsp; He threw in a US-minted Phillipines silver ten cent piece as a bonus!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thalia&#039;s first coins bought with her own money were, I&#039;m sure, Indian Cents.&nbsp; And she got another Indian Cent as part of her &quot;special change&quot;... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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