what was your first silver coin purchase?

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  1. waievolution

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    2oz looney rabbit from the Perth Mint
     
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    had to go digging through the archives for my first buy..

    Was an 1886 Morgan silver dollar...still got that lovely gal :)
     
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    2011 Kookaburra.
    Nice kook, but Liz is her trademark ugly self.
    These will be the first to go when selling :)
     
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    10 x 1oz buffalo's

    If I could only regain my senses and stop buying addictive numi coins. My stack would be at least 200oz's ahead
     
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    500g pamp bar aka the pocket mirror :p
     
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    errol43 New Member Silver Stacker

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    Waievolution... Ah I remember it well... My mother gave me a 2 shilling 1938 and told me to go to the shop and purchase a pound of butter...Must have been around 1962.

    Wow ! If I had only saved all those two bobs that my grandparents gave to me at times, I would be a wealthy man today. :)

    Now Seriously the first silver coins I purchased were 66 round fifties and 2.5 Dutch gulders(4 of each) *8 coins for $48. $18oz

    Regards Errol 43
     
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    Jislizard Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    A Scottish 1944 50% one shilling from a car boot sale.

    It was the same size as the circulating five pence coin and circulated alongside them until 1990.

    You could get a collection of shillings from 1966 dating back to 1947 just by going through your change but I could never work out why I couldn't get any earlier ones.

    It never occured to me that the same coin could be made out of different metals or that the metal of the coin had value or that the value could be more than five pence.

    I guess that was back in the eary nineties, so well before silver stackers, no local coin shops, no idea that a shop could even sell used coins.

    The Royal Mint sold all its coins through the local Post Offices. No internet at home and even if you went to one of the new shops with internet access and fired up netscape, the best browser in the world, there would be no web presence for old coins anyway.

    Had to have it all explained to my by a guy selling second hand rubbish in a field at the weekend!

    I only got started because I wanted to complete my shilling set.
     
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    1oz maple was my first buy, i carry it in my wallet..
     
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    Gold Roos, Silver Maples, ASEs and Sovereigns.
     
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    First coins were 100 x 1966 50c last year. First bar several years ago: 10oz Perth Mint. Now I've got dragon proofs laying around - how did it come to this?
     
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    10x 1966 rounds from ebay, followed by 2x 5oz Lunar tiger from a memeber here.... holding those tigers in my hand was empyrean!
     
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    I honestly don't remember. Bought some bars before coins. Oh, oh, I remember, it was year of tiger, because I am one. I got a 1/2 1 and 2, but don't remember which one first.
     
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    7 coins of 1994 kangaroo silver 1 ounce (carded) from the post office in 1996 should be below $10 each. :)
     
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    Saaaweeeet
     
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    3 Kooka's from Downies ,total was just under $100
     
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    Just paid $100 for a gilded lunar dragon from PM, plus very expensive tax handling fee. Will remember for a loooong time.
     
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    A 1/2 oz square kook last year, think its a 2003. Hid it from hubby for months.
     
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    I am not sure you want to really hear the answer to that :)
     
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    1990 kook for $18
     

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