purchase it @ $450 from Coinbase.

you should check out subreddits like reddit.com/r/Jobs4bitcoins  I am sure you can find a lot more similar work to do and get paid in bitcoin.

Even I purchased it from localbitcoins as that was the only way for me to hold bitcoins, as I wanted to join signature campaign and for that I had to buy accounts So my friend recommended me to buy it from localbitcoins and than I joined signature campaigns and started earning bitcoins, but buying bitcoins was worth it and really enjoying the journey with bitcoins.

faucet

Your first bitcoins came from.. I bought it on an exchange

If not faucets i remember that i got some satoshi from a giveaway and i was very happy at that time.

mining altcoins and trading them for bitcoin.

My first bitcoin came from signature campaign  I was really happy and equally excited too 

selling stellar 

Depends. 

If you mean the 1st Bitcoin I *allegedly* had, that came from Gox.

If you mean the 1st Bitcoin I really had, that came from my CPU, or - if you really mean Bitcoin and not fractions thereof - it came from a KnC Jupiter.

Well, to be even more precise it came from Slush.


Rico