A story of childhood innoncence
Klif50
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Today my mom called me and told me she was going through her cedar chest and found some stuff from my childhood. When she told me what she found I was instantly taken back to 5 or 6 years old and one of my first experiences with coins. At that time my Grandmother gave me a jar of cents/pennies, probably 150 or so and this would have been in 1955 or 1956. I was so proud of them that I got out the brasso and shined everyone of them up so they were pretty and pink. Then, having heard about nickles and dimes but not having any experience with the I figured out that they were 5 and 10 cent pieces. I got out the elmers glue and glues 5 cents together and then 10 cents together. I made several of these and that is what she found, brassoed wheat cents glued together. I tried making a 25 cent piece but the weight after 10 coins was too much for the glue to hold together. I carries them in my pocket in case we might go to the store but several of them broke so I dutifully glued them back together but found they were to unwieldy for every day commerce and the guy at the feed store when I was going to trade my 5 cent stick for a set of wax lips almost wouldn't take them until I broke each cent apart.
Mom finding those brings back interesting memories from that time. I had forgotten about my 5 cent pieces and 10 cent pieces until she found a couple of them.
Mom finding those brings back interesting memories from that time. I had forgotten about my 5 cent pieces and 10 cent pieces until she found a couple of them.
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Steve
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now you got me thinking of being mean to numismatics
my grandfather owned a jewelry store and i used to play with those acetylene/oxygen little jewelry torches, i was old enough to handle them but obviously not old enough to know not to do this.
i would heat up the coins, pretty much any i was curious to see heat up and watch em turn into a fluid state. it was odd how they would just kinda of bubble up into a mass not that dissimilar than mercury. i cringe at the though of what was lost ><
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maybe they should have just handed me some brasso and glue LOL
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You were obviously going about it all wrong.
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i'm impressed staircoins
my stapler only works on 3 cents at one time, kudos
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bob
<< <i>Can't wait till you get them and report they were all 55 double dies!
bob
jeez...talk about wanting to step in front of a fast moving bus!
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rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Only coin I ever cleaned, it looked like crap afterwards.
We ate the stuff
<< <i>We ate the stuff >>
That paste had the little spreading tool on the lid, I remember eating some until mom said "it's made of old horses ground up".
I remember polishing some IHCs that my grandma gave me until they looked like the sun.
Never glued the coins but it sounds like the sort thing a kid would think up.
Now this was a big event for they lived some where very far away. Well, grandpa was giving away
REAL SILVER PENNIES from the war. Only problem was....they were rusty.... so with great fan fair
everyone went out to the garage ...... the old electric grinding wheel was pulled out and spun up.
Soon ....... everyone had a SHINNY SILVER PENNY ....... Great day!!
[ never mind that the steel cents no longer had ANY heads or tails!! ]
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<< <i>Let's be honest most of us did some sort of cleaning in our early years. I'll cop to it. But the gluing together is a chuckel. Nice story. >>
Yep, applied a pencil eraser to a half dozen old Lincoln cents. Still have them in my old 1909-1940 Whitman album. The cents have retoned to a most unappealing color.
As for glue, on one occasion I glued a silver quarter (a 1935) to a poster board for a grade school report I did on Brazil, to show its silver producing industry.
The story also brings to mind an event where I purchased several old Lincoln cents (including a 14-D) from a friend who sourced them from his Dad's collection. IIRC, all my cash-on-hand, several Matchbox cars, and my favorite Hot Wheels car were involved in the trade. Later that evening, the friend's father came over and the deal was reversed. While I was prepared for the fallout, I can still remember the wry/satisifed look on my Dad's face, and the soft "don't do that again" admonishment.
Thanks for the story. I really cherish my childhood collection in its musty, old Whitman folders. I hope you will derive similar joy from your jar of coins.
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True story.
A lot smarter than when I was a kid, I used to use tape, it never made it off the desk or table lol