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JoeLewisJoeLewis Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭✭
What can you tell me about 1950?

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  • First year of Franklin proofs. Lowest mintage year of these proofs too.
    “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” — Benjamin Franklin


    My icon IS my coin. It is a gem 1949 FBL Franklin.
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM-30 Minutes, CBS, October 29, 1950.
  • 1950?
    Hmmmm.
    I lived in a house on State Road in Stutsmansville Michigan. I attended first grade in a one room school house there in 1950.
    I think that was the year I saw the first dial telephone, someone had brought one to our little school to show us one. Technology was exploding, I thought, as the phone at home had a crank on the side you turned to get the operator, and then had to tell her who you wanted to talk to or give her a 2 digit number.
    I think that was the year our neighbor John Cupps dug a well at his house. Just started shoveling until he hit water.
    He was killed in a tractor accident while logging in the woods after my family had moved away.
    I remember my step grandfather sending me to the general store on the corner of that small village with a dollar for some chewing tobacco, that year.
    I remember riding old Bill, our plow horse, during that time frame also.
    I don't remember it, but an older brother told me that someone was trying to pass off the old big pennies as quarters around 1949-1950 there.
    Want to hear about 1952?

    Ray
  • I have a really nice proof quarter from 1950. It's super old!
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Louis Eliasberg completed his set of U. S. coins by date and mint by purchasing the unique 1873-CC no arrows dime for $4,000, in 1950. No one has completed this set before or since, and it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever do it. The aforementioned dime sold in 2004 for $891,250.

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  • Me four

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What can you tell me about 1950?

    in 1950 they made this coin especially for me even though they didn't know it and even though i wasn't born yet. i am eternally grateful.

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  • When you think of all the different years they have had since the beginning of time, the chances of four people on the forum all being born in the same year are so infinitesimally small, it has to be a Christmas miracle. God bless America...and God bless us, everyone!!!
  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    I was still floating in daddys balls as I was not born til '52...........all years after that have been great..........Rick
    If don't look like UNC, it probrably isn't UNC.....U.S. Coast Guard. Chief Petty Officer (Retired) (1970-1990)

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  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    My only Dcam/ucam for that year, my dad was 5 yrs old
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    Need something designed and 3D printed?
  • JoeLewisJoeLewis Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When you think of all the different years they have had since the beginning of time, the chances of four people on the forum all being born in the same year are so infinitesimally small, it has to be a Christmas miracle. God bless America...and God bless us, everyone!!! >>



    I know for a fact there's at least one more forum member born that year!
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,622 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I was born! >>



    Me too!
    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 little sister, and best friend, was born!! image
    "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore"

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  • I was conceived (born in 1951).

    Ralph
  • It preceeded the Summer of Love by seventeen years!

    Hey JoeLewis, I'm GregLewis! Where you been man?!

    Keets---That is some nickel! I bet that looks twice as nice in hand too!
    "Wars are really ugly! They're dirty
    and they're cold.
    I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
    Mary






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  • Me five or six on 7/28/1950
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,732 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM-30 Minutes, CBS, October 29, 1950. >>





    "Now, Rochester!"


    My first sister was born!


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  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    I turned -6 that year.
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  • anoldgoatanoldgoat Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭
    It twas the year I first showed up in the hobby. The doctor that delivered me put a brand new 1949 cent in the congratulations card he sent my parents.

    Mike
    Alright! Who removed the cork from my lunch?

    W.C. Fields
  • al410al410 Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭✭
    One more member born that year
    ME
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was (-15) that year.

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  • My mom was born- 8/19. Her father was 53, born in 1897 and the man who started me on the coin collecting road.

    Riothamus
    "To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."
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  • RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There were no mint sets made in 1950, skipped the one year.
    Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
  • the mint produced both satin and brilliant proofs in 1950.
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,523 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My parents were going out (they married in 1951). My in laws got married in 1950. The Denver Mint made a nickel that for a while was the coin de jur. The Philly mint made a few proof Frankies halves that would decades later be designated CAM or DCAM and would be touted by Mr. Tomaska as one of the rarities of the 20th century. I am fortunate to have one of these coins, however whether Mr. Tomaska's prognostications about it come true and provide me with a comfortable retirement (LOL), I do not know.

    Further, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, on 8-16-1950 (at 19 years of age) completed training and was designated a "Naval Aviator". On 11-27-1950 he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 51, then operating off the the carrier USS Valley Forge. During this assignment he saw considerable flying time, including combat action, in the Korean War.

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