<< <i>Remember silver? Heck, I remember Mercury dimes, Standing quarters, Walkers Morgan and Peace Dollars and Buffalos too.
WHen I was a YN, I'd find an occasional indian cent, V nickel or Barber in circulation! >>
We must be about the same age. I can remember when the clads first came out. I went up to the corner candy store and bought something that should have given me a nickel change. The owner, who seemed very old to me with thick glasses, gave me a copper-nickel quarter in change. It was the first one I had seen. I gave it back to him and told him that it was one of the new quarters that are now the same color as the nickels, guessing that he was telling the nickels from the quarters by color. Not being a collector, he did not know that they had changed. He did say thank you. TD
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
My brother and I were paperboys in the late 50s, early 60s. Those days, you pretty much collected the weekly payment from everyone, unlike today's paying via computer. Everyone paid cash, usually in coins as the weekly cost was 50 cents or so. We used to bring home big pocketfulls of coins. I have lots of fond memories of my Dad sitting down and going thru the change to pick out the best coins He'd then grade them and put them into business enevlopes and makes notes on the coin, grade, etc. It was usually a donation on my brother and my part .
What I think is the really neat part of this story is that my Dad passed his collection on to me forty years later. He had a very large box of shoe boxes, filled with envelopes with coins in them. That was 10 years ago and I still have most of it. He had lots of dimes, quarters and halves, none with any significant numismatic value as it was all pulled from circulation, but to me, it is priceless. The toning on many of these coins is just beautiful after 40 years in an envelope.
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Among many other responses I had to this thread, I am relieved to know that I am not the oldest of the old here!
Born in '52, I too can remember the days of taking silver coinage for granted. I had an uncle who turned me on to collecting when I was 9 or 10, and by the time I was 14 and working in the family store (if you lived in a decent-sized town East of the Mississipp' you will know it, the Italian store on the corner), I was still pulling silver change out of circulation in handfuls.
By the time I graduated from high school (class of '70), those days were over. I found out 6 or 8 years ago that another uncle who also worked in the store had pulled out rolls of Barber dimes over the years. He let me look through them, all pretty much AGs and Gs, and they weren't very interesting. But I still thought it was cool that he was finding them pretty regularly until the early 60s.
Merry Christmas to all!
Xmas bonus joke:
What's the difference between Santa Claus and Tiger Woods?
Santa generally stops at three Ho's!
Tony Barreca
"Question your assumptions." "Intelligence is an evolutionary adaptation."
You saw them occassionally in the early-mid 70s and by the 80s it was pretty much a washout.
Somehow a hacked up Merc recently got into the change bin in my car, probably from a drivethrough or toll booth. I suspect a collector recycled it, which really made me wonder what the point was.......
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<< <i>Remember silver? Heck, I remember Mercury dimes, Standing quarters, Walkers Morgan and Peace Dollars and Buffalos too.
WHen I was a YN, I'd find an occasional indian cent, V nickel or Barber in circulation! >>
We must be about the same age. I can remember when the clads first came out. I went up to the corner candy store and bought something that should have given me a nickel change. The owner, who seemed very old to me with thick glasses, gave me a copper-nickel quarter in change. It was the first one I had seen. I gave it back to him and told him that it was one of the new quarters that are now the same color as the nickels, guessing that he was telling the nickels from the quarters by color. Not being a collector, he did not know that they had changed. He did say thank you.
TD
I have lots of fond memories of my Dad sitting down and going thru the change to pick out the best coins He'd then grade them and put them into business enevlopes and makes notes on the coin, grade, etc. It was usually a donation on my brother and my part
What I think is the really neat part of this story is that my Dad passed his collection on to me forty years later. He had a very large box of shoe boxes, filled with envelopes with coins in them. That was 10 years ago and I still have most of it. He had lots of dimes, quarters and halves, none with any significant numismatic value as it was all pulled from circulation, but to me, it is priceless. The toning on many of these coins is just beautiful after 40 years in an envelope.
Many successful BST transactions with dozens of board members, references on request.
Born in '52, I too can remember the days of taking silver coinage for granted. I had an uncle who turned me on to collecting when I was 9 or 10, and by the time I was 14 and working in the family store (if you lived in a decent-sized town East of the Mississipp' you will know it, the Italian store on the corner), I was still pulling silver change out of circulation in handfuls.
By the time I graduated from high school (class of '70), those days were over. I found out 6 or 8 years ago that another uncle who also worked in the store had pulled out rolls of Barber dimes over the years. He let me look through them, all pretty much AGs and Gs, and they weren't very interesting. But I still thought it was cool that he was finding them pretty regularly until the early 60s.
Merry Christmas to all!
Xmas bonus joke:
What's the difference between Santa Claus and Tiger Woods?
Santa generally stops at three Ho's!
"Question your assumptions."
"Intelligence is an evolutionary adaptation."
Somehow a hacked up Merc recently got into the change bin in my car, probably from a drivethrough or toll booth. I suspect a collector recycled it, which really made me wonder what the point was.......