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Local boy finds 1942/1 Mercury dime in change

DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,819 ✭✭✭
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From the Oswego Valley News, 1966


I was doing some research on a coin shop in Fulton, New York, and found this article.

I wonder if the 10-year-old boy ended up becoming a coin collector?

Also, on a side note, the paper's social notes are interesting: who went to dinner with whom, whose son called home to give holiday greetings, who enjoyed a week of vacation from his job at GE.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting... amazing what comprised news at that time.... Cheers, RickO
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The personals really are odd. I didn't know such things were published in newspapers.
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting... amazing what comprised news at that time.... Cheers, RickO >>

    No kidding!
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,238 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably some kid raided his father's coin collection to get some candy money.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two years after silver was removed from coins and the previous coin design and one of the rarest Mercs. He deserves a "You Suck". image
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • steelieleesteelielee Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭
    About two weeks after that, Oswego & Western NY got blasted with about 3 feet of snow...I remember it well because it delayed my drafted entry into the Army until early Feb,66...ahh, the things that stick with you...
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...my TV looks just like that!!!!!!
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The personals really are odd. I didn't know such things were published in newspapers. >>


    Now we have the internet and Facebook to tell us who got married, who called home, who had a birthday, and so on. No wonder the papers are going out of business!
    Paul
  • RichRRichR Posts: 3,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Screw the coin...I'll take me one of those hi-tech RCA Victor color jobs! And at 25,000 watts...holy Jesus...talk about an energy hog...I don't think an entire house takes 25,000 watts these days!

    And completely OT...but does anyone else remember going with dad to the hardware store to try to find/replace the bad color TV vacuum tube?!?

    And PS...didn't a monster like that cost at least $500+ back then...because that WAS a whole lot of money back in 1966!
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I also notice that Harlen Getman called his parents, all the way from Toledoimage
    Such a nice boy

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,421 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting... amazing what comprised news at that time.... Cheers, RickO >>

    image
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,819 ✭✭✭
    I get the impression that Mr. and Mrs. Getman would sit down
    every Sunday evening and write a letter to the editor about
    their various goings-on.

    "Rheumatoid arthritis is acting up again, Mother; better inform
    the editor down at the News. And don't fail to mention
    that we took a strawberry pie to Pastor Hoolihan's on Tuesday
    evening. We 'paid a visit.' Write it like that --- 'paid a visit.'"


  • RichRRichR Posts: 3,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<Interesting... amazing what comprised news at that time>>


    Well...there are basically two options:

    1. Things WERE quite a bit simpler (and innocent ) in those days.

    or

    2. Really bad things were covered up/not talked about!
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember the blizzard of '66 in detail, having grown up just west of Fulton, and that was 46 years ago. image

    Maybe Bill Fivaz dropped that dime into circulation when he lived there while working for the Nestle Company. image

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
    http://www.americanlegacycoins.com

  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The reference to "the local coin store" is interesting as well. Did everyone just know which store this was? Did every locality have one?
  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    Strange, it didn't say a thing about the fact that I would be "at home" on Sunday afternoon. No wonder no one dropped in.

    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
  • stealerstealer Posts: 3,997 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>...my TV looks just like that!!!!!! >>


    What kind of channels do you get? image

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