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Chick-fil-A half dollar

Che_GrapesChe_Grapes Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I continue to learn more about this coin. This one has one staple with patina on it and Only one stable means it is legit…. Not that it matters, rhis coin is basically worth 50 cents but I got it from the family who got it from chick fil A back in the 1970s! In 1976 I was 6 years old…how old were you and what were you doing for the bicentennial…!!???
Post your coins from 1976!!!

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  • Che_GrapesChe_Grapes Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭✭✭


  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In just 3 more years and our country will have its 250th birthday. Anyone heard if the Congress already has proposals for a special commemorative coin for our nation's Semiquincentennial?

  • jacrispiesjacrispies Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How old was I in 1976?
    Well... my dad was born that year :|

    Here is a 1776 eight reales love token, likely engraved at the centennial exposition!


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Che_Grapes .... I was 34... living in Europe, about to return to the U.S.. I have a lot of quarters and several halves from the bi-centennial. No Chick-fil-a's.... Never been to one of those. Cheers, RickO

  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @Che_Grapes .... I was 34... living in Europe, about to return to the U.S.. I have a lot of quarters and several halves from the bi-centennial. No Chick-fil-a's.... Never been to one of those. Cheers, RickO

    Ricko, then that makes you, uh...lemme see, 1976 minus 34, uh, hold on....carry the three, uh, 2023 minus 1976...lemme get back to ya.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 12, 2023 6:51AM

    Here is a 1776 British guinea. This piece came from Lenard Finn's collection. He was a collector I knew from my days in the Boston area. Lenny was a great collector and had many unusual items. He had an example of the first paper money that was circulated in what would be the United States, from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1690s. I believe that piece is now in the Smithsonian.


    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • jedmjedm Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 12, 2023 7:00AM

    "Staple with patina" Ha! I got a chuckle outta that! I was going to community college and got the $2 bills postmarked the first day of issue and gave 'em to my brothers and sisters. I think my younger sister still has hers. I just sent this to a buyer as I've been downsizing just a tad lately.

  • LJenkins11LJenkins11 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 12, 2023 7:11AM

    My $1.25... I wasn't even born yet!


  • acsbacsb Posts: 157 ✭✭✭

    All the hype. Then we went bowling on 4jul76.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 12, 2023 7:16AM

    I went to a parade in Morristown, New Jersey on July 4, 1976. Yea, I'm an old guy. I was working for the Allied Chemical Company which was headquartered in Morristown.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,126 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was 28 and I ran a John Deere dealership in Kingsport, Tn and watched a parade also from the front.
    Jim


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  • AdamLAdamL Posts: 165 ✭✭✭



    I wasn't born until 1983

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