Coin Hijinks
coinaesthetics
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The topic presented a few days back by Master Collector -- the coin you dreamed of owning when you were a kid -- brought back some youthful coin experiences to me, including one that still makes me laugh. My best friend through my pre-teen years was a wonderful class clown named Richard Hagemeier. He followed my interest in coins with less intensity but more style, to the frequent consternation of our sixth grade teacher, a rookie with no experiencing managing 11-year-olds, Miss Snowbrick. Richard liked to search during class, beneath his desk, through rolls of coins from the DuPage Trust Company, sometimes commenting on or passing around one of interest, while poor Miss Snowbrick tried lucklessly to keep the class focused on algebra. One day during some chalkboard lesson by our teacher, Richard suddenly let out a whoop and held above his head a just-discovered penny. "Hey, look! A 14-D!!" The entire class crowded around Richard's desk as Miss Snowbrick stammered in irrelevance. Richard was required to move his desk to the coat closet for the next week, but he didn't mind: more peace and privacy for searching coin rolls. I'd be interested to hear about any youthful coin hijinks you folks experienced.
coinsandwhitesox
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stealing silver coins from my own piggy bank to go buy baseball cards..
Then putting all those Mantle and good cards in the spokes of my bike.
Wasted Silver and wasted BBcards
Loved the Bubble gum though.............
We pulled that kind of stuff on a substitute teacher in 5th grade for a whole week, as I recall.
I knew it would happen.
Yeah but that was what they were for! And to draw mustaches and scars on the players....sure was fun though!
K