You Know You're Old When...[Feel Free to Add to the Thread]...

RichR

You Know You're Old When...You realize your Eisenhower and SBA dollars are now older than the Peace dollars that your father gave you when you were a kid!

BustDMs

When you remember the old days when silver circulated. 😢

RichR

You Know You're Old When...You're first thought when you see a Macy's commercial is that you used to buy coins there!

RichR

You Know You're Old When...You remember those revolving coin display cases at Sears, Woolworth's, Grant's, Murphy's and McCrory's...

RichR

You Know You're Old When...You remember any of the stores listed above!!!

pcgsregistrycollector

you still call it the "State Quarters new series.

pcgsregistrycollector

...you remember when CAC stickers didn’t exist, and now you're complaining about green vs. gold vs. CACG.

pcgsregistrycollector

...you say “SLQ” and someone thinks you’re talking about crypto.

pcgsregistrycollector

...you’ve actually used a Kennedy half dollar to buy something.

pcgsregistrycollector

...you remember when spotting a wheat penny in change wasn't considered rare.

pcgsregistrycollector

…you’re still mad they removed the silver from nickels—after 1945.

pcgsregistrycollector

…you’ve said “I don’t collect modern” while secretly hoarding West Point quarters.

pcgsregistrycollector

…you use the phrase “back when eBay was good.”

pcgsregistrycollector

…you’ve yelled “It’s not cleaned, it’s cabinet friction!” at your computer screen.

pcgsregistrycollector

…you fondly recall paying under spot for junk silver... because it was just called “silver.”

pcgsregistrycollector

…you tell your spouse, “It’s not spending money—it’s transferring wealth into historically significant metal discs.”

pcgsregistrycollector

…your idea of flirting is asking, “Wanna see my full bands?”

pcgsregistrycollector

…you’ve used the phrase “Nice strike!”—and weren’t talking about bowling or unions.

pcgsregistrycollector

…your wedding ring is engraved, but your coins are the only things you describe as “problem-free and lustrous.”

pcgsregistrycollector

…when your wife says “We need to talk about our future,” and you immediately reply, “You mean bullion or numismatic growth?

Klif50

@pcgsregistrycollector said:
...you’ve actually used a Kennedy half dollar to buy something.

I actually remember using Franklin Half dollars to buy a loaf of bread and get 35 cents back in change (all wheat backs).

pcgsregistrycollector

@Klif50 said:

@pcgsregistrycollector said:
...you’ve actually used a Kennedy half dollar to buy something.

I actually remember using Franklin Half dollars to buy a loaf of bread and get 35 cents back in change (all wheat backs).

pcgsregistrycollector

@Klif50 said:

@pcgsregistrycollector said:
...you’ve actually used a Kennedy half dollar to buy something.

I actually remember using Franklin Half dollars to buy a loaf of bread and get 35 cents back in change (all wheat backs).

Heck I was 4 when you made this account!

RichR

You Know You're Old When...You remember when they removed copper from the penny "Because it costs more than a cent to make a penny...or else we might have to stop making pennies!"

OAKSTAR

@RichR said:
You Know You're Old When...You remember those revolving coin display cases at Sears, Woolworth's, Grant's, Murphy's and McCrory's...

Do you remember a store called TSS Store?

Walkerfan

I know I’m old because…

I remember when bullion dealers were buying silver for triple face value.

I remember when an 1882/3/4 Carson City GSA only cost $50.

I remember when third-party grading was a new ‘fad’ started by ANACS.

I remember when gold was $350 an ounce.

I remember when the bicentennial quarters, halves and dollars were first introduced and could be pulled from change in large numbers.

I remember when people collected stamps just as much as coins.

I remember when companies sold poly vinyl chloride coin album pages to unsuspecting collectors.

I remember when owning a set like I own now was a fantastic pipe dream and, even if I had the funds, could never even be accomplished, because there was no Internet.

I remember the Dawn of eBay when rare, grade-able, problem-free, raw Coins could be harvested for a song and sent in to the TPGS to be ‘made’.

I remember when old green holders were new green holders.

johnny9434

What was the question?

RichR

[Do you remember a store called TSS Store?]

You mean Times Square Stores...oh yes! All over the NYC area...and very similar to Two Guys.

OAKSTAR

@RichR said:
[Do you remember a store called TSS Store?]

You mean Times Square Stores...oh yes! All over the NYC area...and very similar to Two Guys.

Yes and Long Island. I think there was one in Oceanside and one in Levittown.

AUandAG

you know you're old.....when your best buddys were finding 09 svdb and 14d cents in rolls from the bank....they talked you into collecting but somehow the good cents dried up and you never found even one in a roll.

bob

MsMorrisine

silver was $3-4 an ounce for me and you found out about that from the newspaper

lordmarcovan

... when you get in the shower without removing your glasses.

... when you remember ads in coin publications that touted "strict B&D grading".

MsMorrisine

when you remember coin publications in the magazine rack and you were disappointed to find no new article by Tom DeLorey

PerryHall

I remember getting Morgan and Peace dollars from the bank for face value. I remember getting buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, SLQs, and WLHs in change on a regular basis. I remember when all coins were raw and third-party grading didn't exist. I remember when coin dealers used two different grading standards---one for buying and one for selling. I remember buying my first Saint-Gaudens gold $20 for $47. I remember silver coins freely circulated and when clad coins first entered circulation in 1965. I could go on but you get the picture that I'm an old guy.

1northcoin

... when you remember that a kid's' screen time could be controlled just by closing the curtain.

taropatch99

You remember dropping that 1792 Half Disme in George's Presidential Campaign coffers as he sought his second straight term.

... and I've fallen and I can't get up; but since I'm down here is there anything that I need.

woenickel

You know you're old when you're a hold-out on digital payments and insist on cash (WalMart self-pay machines have spat out $1 Silver Certificates and star notes) and coin... I've found two 2019 W quarters that way, and silver nickels occasionally come out of tills.

I've been told that the current term for an older person is "UNC". You hafta admit, it's amusing. "Whaddya mean I'm uncirculated!? Wait---you can tell just by looking at me that I DON'T sleep around!?"

coastaljerseyguy

You know you're old when you voted for the dead president on coins or currency.

CaptHenway

You were collecting Franklin halves out of circulation and they suddenly discontinued them.

jesbroken

@Walkerfan
I remember when gold was $350 an ounce.

You are not old, I remember when Gold was $36.50 per ounce in 1960 and thought it high.
Jim

Walkerfan

@jesbroken said:
@Walkerfan
I remember when gold was $350 an ounce.

You are not old, I remember when Gold was $36.50 per ounce in 1960 and thought it high.
Jim

Thanks, Jim 😊 Wow, that’s really interesting 😇

rec78

When you can remember spending a Morgan silver dollar. When gold was pegged at $35.00 per ounce by the government. When silver was $1.29 per ounce. You could get silver dollars from the banks at face value. When president Richard Nixon took the country ((temporarely (actually permanently)) off the gold standard. You remember the assassination of JFK . Gas was 25.9 cents per gallon. Bill Mazoroski winning the world series over the New York Yankees in Oct. 1960 with a ninth inning home run. When Joe Nameth gaurenteed victory for the NY jets in superbowl III. When the New York mets won the world series in 1969. When your neighbor had a 1964 Plymouth valiant with a slant 6 engine that seemed to last forever. When Ford motor company introduced the Mustang in 1964.
When man landed on the moon in 1969. When Dwight Eisenhower was president.

RichR

You Know You're Old When...your "new" Mustang is older than the teenagers trying to steal it!

TwoSides2aCoin

You know you’re old when you can’t change your mind. That’s the rut we get stuck in, for life.

seatedlib3991

You know your old when you log on 3 times to make a post to this thread. But don't ;because you forgot. James

MsMorrisine

i remember when it was a thing to get a silver cert, but those were mostly gone

SanctionII

When you realize the freshly minted 1965 clad quarter you pulled from upon its release in to circulation by the Mint in November, 1965 (which you still have in your collection) will in a few months be 60 years old.

SanctionII

Also, when a person realizes that when he or she were born the mint still produced gold coins for circulation (for example my wife's aunt who was born in 1929).

Morgan White

heavymetal

You know you are old when the giant glass bottle you’ve been throwing your pocket change into is now too heavy to move.

MsMorrisine

@heavymetal said:
You know you are old when the giant glass bottle you’ve been throwing your pocket change into is now too heavy to move.

and it's not due to the weight