The D-Day 50p is one of my favourite coins, so to get it in silver (back when I was probably only ~10-~12) was a really big deal for me because it was “so expensive”. Probably like 2 months pocket money for the one coin alone.
I still love that design.
The other one was basically because the dealer was giving me such a good combined price it didn't make sense to leave. Judging by the prices I paid, I reckon he must've let me buy just above melt price at the time. Sympathy for a kid collector perhaps? 😛
I'm not sure of my first circulation coin I bought. Would hazard a guess around some of the old large 50p coins as they were out of circulation by the time I was collecting. Do remember buying some of those at an antique shop in Corbridge.
I do recall buying two of the all-gold £2 coins at a jewellers in York at face value (woohoo!) as a kid as well. I took such care getting them home, treated them like the most fragile items in existence. Watched every person who walked past my seat on the train back up just in case they stole them… 🤣
In both cases, I don't recall which designs though. And I don't remember which way round either. 🤷🏼♂️
I physically purchased for my kiddie collection, was likely the bag of 50 world coins I bought in January 1989 when I was 12. I paid about $15 for it (It was better coins). Long since gone - I think it had some coins like a 1912 Greek 10 Lepta, a 1880s Britannia Penny, a US quarter and a British Florin from like 1948 or something. It had 2 silver coins, one of those tiny 1/10 Florin coins from Dutch West Indies and some worn old threepence of NZ (Silver was like $4 an ounce then).
First collectors coin was a set of NZ silver Threepences from 1933 - 1946 that were in “Good” condition and they were like 60 cents each, I spent about $7 or something (No 1935). That was March 1991, and I was 14 years and 10 months old and it was a lot of pocket money and berry picking jobs, I have saved money from. The coins lasted until my coin collection was stolen out of my car in 2001.
Like these and in this grade, but not these exact examples. This is a B grade spare collection I bought a couple of years ago.
In early 1994, aged 17 I bought a worn 1935 3d, a rare coin that cost $75 even for a worn one. Now that same coin is worth $200 and my current one is only marginally better!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I physically purchased for my kiddie collection, was likely the bag of 50 world coins I bought in January 1989 when I was 12. I paid about $15 for it (It was better coins). Long since gone - I think it had some coins like a 1912 Greek 10 Lepta, a 1880s Britannia Penny, a US quarter and a British Florin from like 1948 or something. It had 2 silver coins, one of those tiny 1/10 Florin coins from Dutch West Indies and some worn old threepence of NZ (Silver was like $4 an ounce then).
First collectors coin was a set of NZ silver Threepences from 1933 - 1946 that were in “Good” condition and they were like 60 cents each, I spent about $7 or something (No 1935). That was March 1991, and I was 14 years and 10 months old and it was a lot of pocket money and berry picking jobs, I have saved money from. The coins lasted until my coin collection was stolen out of my car in 2001.
Like these and in this grade, but not these exact examples. This is a B grade spare collection I bought a couple of years ago.
In early 1994, aged 17 I bought a worn 1935 3d, a rare coin that cost $75 even for a worn one. Now that same coin is worth $200 and my current one is only marginally better!
Technically, this is my first coin purchased, as part of a lot of junk silver I bought after the silver market crashed following the Hunt brothers' shenanigans. There was also a circulated 1893 Columbian commemorative I sent to my nephew in Alaska, hoping to get him interested in coins. Jury's still out on that, but I'm ever hopeful.
I physically purchased for my kiddie collection, was likely the bag of 50 world coins I bought in January 1989 when I was 12. I paid about $15 for it (It was better coins). Long since gone - I think it had some coins like a 1912 Greek 10 Lepta, a 1880s Britannia Penny, a US quarter and a British Florin from like 1948 or something. It had 2 silver coins, one of those tiny 1/10 Florin coins from Dutch West Indies and some worn old threepence of NZ (Silver was like $4 an ounce then).
First collectors coin was a set of NZ silver Threepences from 1933 - 1946 that were in “Good” condition and they were like 60 cents each, I spent about $7 or something (No 1935). That was March 1991, and I was 14 years and 10 months old and it was a lot of pocket money and berry picking jobs, I have saved money from. The coins lasted until my coin collection was stolen out of my car in 2001.
Like these and in this grade, but not these exact examples. This is a B grade spare collection I bought a couple of years ago.
In early 1994, aged 17 I bought a worn 1935 3d, a rare coin that cost $75 even for a worn one. Now that same coin is worth $200 and my current one is only marginally better!
Thats a real bargain, 1 of 3 things.
1. Coin is fake, as its heavily faked with Chinese imitations and they use a photo of a real one.
2. Very naive seller outside British Commonwealth, who assumes its one of the more common dates
3. You got a genuine bargain.
These coins are very scarce, ask any NZ collector, getting one for under $100 is unknown, with just 40k minted - they are very desirable.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
The current iteration of my collection (since I started collecting again after selling off my old collection and taking a hiatus for several years) was a George V New Zealand shilling. I can't remember the first coin I bought for my collection when I first started collecting, most of the times I bought big lots to sort through rather than individual coins.
For me, it was something way more humble when I was younger.
Before collecting for real, all that I was collecting were coins that I was finding on change, such as shiny coins and circulating commemoratives (at that time they were starting to release the Rio 2016 Olympics coins).
Anything different that I had were some '80s cruzados and a japanese coin that I have since a kid (at that time it was simply a strange coin that I was keeping as a charm).
Someday, I was in a street fair, saw a stand where some artisans were using cruzeiros and cruzados coins (the most common and worthless of them) for creating rings and bracelets and the like, and they were selling loose coins too. And among these coins from the ‘60s and ’80s I saw one coin dated 1901 and bought it. One of those coins with the date written as MCMI, don't remember if it was a 100 or a 200 réis coin, nowadays it's mixed within my box of brazilian coins.
It was the first time I saw a coin with more than 100 years old, and that I could buy such older coins. And that's where the interest on coins began. Created my Numista account some months later.
The first coin I remember buying was a Australia 2012 Red Poppy $2 coin. It was in 2016 and worth $36. Now, its worth over $200. What a great first purchase! And i still have the coin too.
Like these and in this grade, but not these exact examples. This is a B grade spare collection I bought a couple of years ago.
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Like these and in this grade, but not these exact examples. This is a B grade spare collection I bought a couple of years ago.
