Complete this sentence: I remember when I was a kid...

Outhaul

...I used to get Hawaiian coins in my change; and I lived in MA.

Cameonut

...we used to get bags of change from the parking meters to look for coins to fill our Whitman albums.

JimTyler

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SaorAlba

I got and spent Ike dollars. Now I just save them whenever I can get my paws on them

CommemDude

You could find WL halves in circulation; chop marked trade dollars were all considered to be culls and a mercury dime was not graded "Fine" unless all the vertical lines in the fasces were present.

bearcave

Grader's what is a coin grader??

ricko

....all dimes, quarters and halves were silver and cents were copper. Cheers, RickO

Kliao

... wait I’m still a kid

CoinJunkie

A chunk of bubble gum cost a penny and finding a 5 dollar bill on the ground was like winning the lottery.

alefzero

There was a couple coin shops in every town and you actually handled coins, not plastic.

ldhair

The local shop sold silver coins for 2.5X face value.

Mgarmy

I use to go through rolls and rolls of pennies with my Dad

TurtleCat

The local coin shop owner went to jail for fraud

Bullsitter

If I could just find a 50-D Nickel I'll be rich....

Onastone

Lifesavers were a nickel a roll, comics had just gone up from ten to twelve cents each, and wheat pennies were everywhere.

PerryHall

I remember getting Morgan and Peace dollars occasionally in change and you could get them from the bank for face value.

keets

........................and my Mom used to send me to the store with a note for cigarettes(65 cents a pack).

TurtleCat

The Hunt Brothers were trying to corner the silver market and my mom sold a bunch of junk silver she inherited to help us through some bad financial times.

Outhaul

You could buy $20 Saints and Libs for $35 - $50...

Oldhoopster

Going to my first coin show (around age 7) and my Uncle buying me a 1880-S Morgan in VG for $1.25, but I really wanted the $20 Liberty that were selling for $45-50

Outhaul

@keets said:
........................and my Mom used to send me to the store with a note for cigarettes(65 cents a pack).

You must be a lot younger than me, Al. I remember 23¢ per pack cigarettes.

BryceM

...... wait, no I don’t.

jesbroken

Onastone

Lifesavers were a nickel a roll, comics had just gone up from ten to twelve cents each, and wheat pennies were everywhere.

You stole my memories! I used to sit at the end of the counter at Armour's drug store and have a cherry coke and read out of the comic book rack, as long as I bought one for 10-12 cents. Fred used to give my change for a quarter in buffalo nickels if he had any in the register. Wow, the good life.
Jim

Jimnight

Looking at dates on money.

PerryHall

@Outhaul said:
You could buy $20 Saints and Libs for $35 - $50...

I remember buying my first BU Saint $20 for $47 in 1966.

CoinJunkie

@Jimnight said:
Looking at dates on money.

If you are a coin collector, you should probably still be doing that...

bearcave

I don't know how many cows dad had to milk but once a month we would go to town, dad would give my brother and I $1.00 each. We would spend it at the local drug store for a hamburger, fries, coke and a comic book. Of course the coke was a fountain drink.

johnny9434

Getting franklin halfs in change. I miss them days

Outhaul

Collection day on my paper routes and coming home with a bag full of silver.

Tom147

Silver coins were still in circulation. ( 8 years old in 64 ) Occasional Mercurys and Buffalos. Franklins and Wheaties aplenty. If I only knew then what I know now. Don't we all wish we had a time machine ?

CaptHenway

.....Thomas Jefferson told me it was a “Cent,” not a “Penny!”

oih82w8

It brings back so many memories when I think of the past.

Paraphrasing Steven Wright

topstuf

Never checked bands on our dimes.

GotTheBug

I received silver coins as tips on my paper route.

amwldcoin

Plugging a hole was more important than condition!

TurtleCat

How excited I was when I was 15 working at a convenient store and the cashier had 5 40% JFKs and I got them for face value after calling my mom to bring me $2.50 to swap them out. That was in the later 1980s so it was very exciting.

WDH

The local coin shop was setup in a dry cleaners. I still remember the smell.

Outhaul

Looking at the coins in the moving display case in W.T. Grants department store. I remember you pushed the button on the top and the shelves inside moved like a Ferris wheel.

Insider2

I couldn't eat anything I wanted; any time I wanted to. Oh, and coins were very cheap.

Walkerfan

There were no third-party graders, so you had to be careful, when buying BU coins, as to make sure that they weren’t polished, AU sliders!!

keets

hey Bob, my memory might be faulty on the price but I also remember gas at about 28 cents/gallon.

Outhaul

@keets said:
hey Bob, my memory might be faulty on the price but I also remember gas at about 28 cents/gallon.

Speedway on Chelmsford Street in my hometown; 15.9¢ per gallon...ahhhh good times. I could fill my Road Runner for less than $5 when it was bone dry.

TurtleCat

@Outhaul said:
Looking at the coins in the moving display case in W.T. Grants department store. I remember you pushed the button on the top and the shelves inside moved like a Ferris wheel.

My local coin shop still uses those.

metalmeister

There were 48 States, Eisenhower was president and Silver coins in change.

yspsales

... when 54 was OLD

Coinscratch

We used to ride in the back of the truck and coins were for skipping across the pond or pitching to the wall.

jesbroken

In 1964 Kingsport, TN gas was 21 cents/gallon(gas wars every weekend), cigarettes in a machine were a quarter with 3 cents taped to each pack and all the matchbooks you would ever need lying in the bottom of the machine and on the ground. I had a 1963 Morris Minor that got 48mpg. Johnny and I would fill it up(7 gallons) buy each of us a pack of cigarettes and a pop all for under $2 which we had just received for soda bottles we scavenged from along side the road at the football field and drive all weekend when not working. Friday night game, Saturday morning collection. Only one coin shop in town, went there every Saturday. Lady who ran it seemed to be a witch, but 30 years later she was a good friend. Thanks for the memories.
Jim

Outhaul

@CoinscratchFever said:
We used to ride in the back of the truck and coins were for skipping across the pond or pitching to the wall.

The BACK? We used to ride on the TAILGATE!

ricman

I could find SLQ’s in the cash register of the drug store where I worked.

divecchia

I used to go to the corner store and buy cigarettes' (Camels unfiltered) and the Italian newspaper (Il Progresso) for my dad and I would get to keep the change (as long as I handed back to him first).

Donato

Greeniejr

Dan Duncan and Walter Magnus would pay me $1 to get them coffee from the concession stand at major shows.