Ever get coins on Halloween ?
Coinstartled
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After eating all the chocolate bars and moving onto the stuff that wasn't green or yellow and even eating the peanut butter chunks wrapped in black and orange...after all that, at the bottom of the sack, beneath the squishy apple that the dentist in the neighborhood gave out, was two or three pennies (yeah we are supposed to call them cents, but at 8 years old they were pennies.).
Worthless really, even in the early 1960's. Better for the cheapskates to shut their lights and hope that no one had soap.
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That’s a good idea! I should go to my local coin shop and buy some steel cents, buffalo nickels, foreign coins, etc. and toss them with the candy into the trick or treaters bags. It may be the most exciting Halloween a kid has ever had and perhaps he or she will catch the collecting bug!
Full sized Snicker's is a better choice!
Only back in the '60's when they shoved a UNICEF box in my hand at school.
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Forgot about those.
Remember "coin" shaped chocolate covered in gold foil. Collectable and edible. A dynamic duo.
Mrs. Mazar made the best popcorn balls that I have had the pleasure to taste/enjoy and she would never give out more than one per "trick-or-treater".
One year I just happened to stop at Mrs. Mazar's house as my last stop (she was only two houses down from mine) and she gave me a bonus popcorn ball!
Back to the OP......I always had change in the bottom of my bag except for the year that it rained and the bottom of my bag burst opened because it got soaked and all of my goodies fell to the ground.
Thanks for bringing up old memories CS.
One year a lady gave a friend and me a SBA dollar and 2 Kennedy halves.
At 10 years old we thought they were pretty cool because we never saw that stuff in circulation.
A guy where I worked said ,that when he was a kid, there was a cheap old lady in his neighborhood. She took Oreo Cookies apart. One kid would get just the chocolate cookie part and another would get the chocolate cookie with the cream filling.
In the 1960's, I used to get change from some houses, and apples from others. It really was a good time to be a "kid".
One night a year to go berserk and get all the stuff for free that we craved and bought through out the year.
I decorate............and give out plastic sandwich bags with 3 or 4 "good" stuff every year.
My fog machine still gives the younger kids pause.
Pete
I once got a dollar bill.
Pillowcases, my friend!
We gave em out one year.
ONE YEAR
Talk about a stupid idea.
Never again ! !
I will remember that when I head out this year.
Never received coins. And I always give good candy.
But for select nicely-costumed kids, I'd also give an early 60's uncirculated cent in an airtite -- with a little sleight-of-hand, so they wouldn't know who gave the coin.
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Nice, I want to trick or treat at your house! This is me and my grandson Greyson making the rounds. Peace Roy
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Back in the early 60s, I used to get a blue Whitman trifold album from a particular house. A different folder every year. The albums were printed down the road at Whitman Publishing in Racine, WI. (still have them).
Other times I'd get a nickel or dime instead of candy, but back then the dime was silver.
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Though I didnt get it trick or treating, I did pick up Dan Carr's "Happy Halloween" coin this year.
It's out of my wheelhouse, but for some reason this one just gets me.
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I did receive a 40% Kennedy one year in my trick or treat bucket...which got me started in coin collecting.
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When I was a kid, we often got cents tossed in our bag, sometimes a nickel. I do not recall dimes at all...But back then, all sorts of candy and there were no worries about wrapped or not...apples were common with the occasional orange. The cents were wheaties of course...Now I do the giving and last year we had over 200 kids...
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Those are cool and only 30 with the enamel, that little girls face is classic. Also made some MS and Proof versions.
Yeah, a few nickels and dimes, and once or twice a quarter (late 60s/early 70s). I would trade some of my candy for my sister's cash haul, a win-win for all!
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I remember, when I was a little kid, there was an old farmer that lived next to my Grandfathers farm. I was with my Grandfather when the farmer stopped by to see my Grandfather. He gave me a candy bar ( Three Musketeers ? ) with a dime embedded through the wrapper and into the candy bar. My Mom did not want me to eat it. It was a candy bar and I was a kid. You know what happened.
I remember getting change as a kid, along with candy.
I've given coins out along with a pice of candy taped to the 2x2 flip... mainly IHCs, Wheat Cents, and worn Buffalo Nickles. I had a short history on the back of the flip. I don't know if I got anyone into the hobby like that, but it couldn't hurt.
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I have been handing out Eisenhower dollars with healthy snacks tonight. Several kids eyes lit up with the big dollar coin presented to them.
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NOPE ....... I want candy!!!!
Can someone please download the song by 'Strangeloves'?
I remember getting quarters once in a while, 70s/80s. A regular size candy bar was 35-40 cents so that put me most of the way there. It beat Dots or Bit O Honeys anyway.
Here is a Mexican jolly rancher song.
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Nope, but one year I ran out of candy to give and noticed a jar of quarters on my mantel. So, I started handing those out several at a time until I realized the same costumes kept showing up. Luckily we were headed out that night and closed up shop. I didn't collect back then so probably gave away some good stuff.
Yes as I was trick or treating with the kids tonight and an auction was ending so I had to use the ebay app which worked, so yes I got coins on Halloween.