Another "Remember when" for those 60+

UtahCoin

In 1964 I was in 7th grade at La Cumbre Junior High School in Santa Barbara, CA. I was a cashier in the school cafeteria so I got to handle lots of coins. In those days Steel cents, Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters and Walking Liberty Half dollars were as common as dirt. I remember the day the new clad coins showed up, and was that ever exciting! We couldn't wait to get rid of all that worn, dirty old silver and get new shinny clad coins.....

Timbuk3

Yup, I remember those days !!!

mariner67

Yep....+1 here.
There were lots of those great silver(and steel) coins back then.
Unfortunately I never hoarded any of the silver ones....until much much older of course.

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howards

Sounds like UtahCoin and I are within a year in age.

I remember getting lots of interesting coins. Couldn't afford to save anything bigger than a nickel. Went through tons of rolls of cents and nickels. Was very happy the day I found a 1909VDB. (Still have it.) On a regular basis, I used to find Indian Head cents and Liberty nickels, not to mention lots of buffalo nickels.

I also remember finding an occasional Barber coin.

Morgan dollars were plentiful. No one wanted them, so they got spent.

The good ol' days when a nice collection could be built from circulation.

Treashunt

sad, but yes, I remember those days.

I recall going to the neighborhood candy store and the owner would let me go thru his nickels for Buffalo's for dates I needed

silvergoldnut

Heck, I remember when I was finding Indian cents in change and it making my day.

mustangmanbob

As a kid, I thought I had hit the lottery with the new clad coins. I had a bunch where, if you y=looked edge on, the copper / nickel clad was uneven, wavy, not razor straight.

I had maybe $20 in quarters, getting rid of silver ones to hoard clad.

Little did I know that they all were that way.

mrearlygold

I remember using all the baseball cards on the Yankees team except Mickey Mantle to make those noises in our bicycle spokes.


Man that's old!

ricko

Yep...have said it here before..... I was a paper boy... and would get all the old silver, even Columbian halves... at that time there were no clad coins....all the change REALLY jingled.... Cheers, RickO

Rollerman

I was going to college and working for a wholesale candy distributor. Started my senior year in High School making deliveries and by 1964 I was making calls and collecting money for the deliveries. I bought all the silver I got for my collection (actually kind of a hoard at that point in my life). Ten years later, I found my boys had discovered my cache and were buying candy with it!! Going through what I had left sparked my interest and I collected for another 15 years, took some time off, and resumed at 100% in 2001 when I retired. My collection has grown probably 75% since then! No regrets, it's been a fun ride.
Pete

ColonelJessup

I remember getting a Bust 50c in change at a deli in 1956. . . . . . .

cladking

Lordy, I hated the new clad coins and everything they represented. The first few
I saw around Thanksgiving of 1965 were all really nice specimens though so it eased
the sting a little bit. Within months there was a flood of really awful '65 and '66 issues
that were barely struck by worn out dies.

Right up until 1975 they were still releasing brand new quarters and dimes of every
fdate but most especially 1965, 1969-D, 1970, '71-D '72-D, and '74. By 1975 every-
thing was being released almost as soon as it was struck or wiothin a couple years
but the '74 quarters made up until July of '75 were probably still being released as
late as 1979. They sneaked in most of the bicentennial coins ahead of them.

There are no longer any olds coins in FED or mint storage. The oldest might be about
10 year old circulated coins in the pacific northwest.

It was the late releases that made clad collecting pointless the first several years. Even
if you saved a scarce date there was no way to know the mint wasn't going to release
large numbers later. The removal of silver and huge mintages made it seem that saving
them was a waste of time anyway. The poor quality didn't help.

winky

I remember finding a 1938 D half dollar in Germany in 1966 and lots of Buffalo 5 cents and Merc dimes and on and on and on !! To bad I was dumb then and still am I think sometimes.

curly

I've told this story before but in the early sixties I used to work in a gas station in Klamath Falls, Oregon. As people returned from Vegas and Reno, the first thing they would do is get rid of those cumbersome silver dollars. We didn't have any room in the till for them so I would toss them in a bucket under the till. When the bucket got full I would haul them off to the bank. 😝

Cocoinut

I received my first "penny board" in 1955, after showing an interest in coins as soon as I could read numbers. Back then, it was common to find steel cents, Buffalo and wartime nickels, Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters, and Walking Liberty halves. Unlike some areas of the country, halves circulated freely in Ohio, and Walkers were as common as the then-current Franklins. I never found any Indian cents, V nickels, or Barber coins in pocket change, but I didn't buy rolls of coins to search from the bank. I clearly recall receiving my first Memorial cent in 1959, Kennedy half in March 1964, and the first greasy-looking clad quarter in November 1965. One of my first purchases of a coin from a shop was a 1950-D nickel, for which I paid $26 in 1965. Even though silver was removed from everyday coinage, silver coins were very reasonably priced for several years. Some examples: BU Walking Liberty halves from original rolls for $3.75 in 1967, a BU roll of 1963-P halves for $11.50 in 1968, a BU roll of 1881-S dollars for $52.00 in 1970, and a bank-wrapped BU roll of Mercury dimes for $35, also in 1970. In 1971, I acquired my avatar, an 1879 quarter, for $95.00; it was submitted to PCGS in 1988 and received a grade of MS65. If only we all knew then what we know now!

Jim

drwstr123

A lot of bars had the only remote control TVs - the Zenith which worked with tuning forks.
With clad quarters we could change channels just droping them on the bar.

1Bustcollector

That brings back memories. I remember as a kid going out to eat with the family traveling to our favorite Diner...check the pay phone for silver coins! It was a great payout!

That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.

1Bustcollector

That brings back memories. I remember as a kid going out to eat with the family traveling to our favorite Diner...check the pay phone for silver coins! It was a great payout!

That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.

1Bustcollector

That brings back memories. I remember as a kid going out to eat with the family traveling to our favorite Diner...check the pay phone for silver coins! It was a great payout!

That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.

1Bustcollector

That brings back memories. I remember as a kid going out to eat with the family traveling to our favorite Diner...check the pay phone for silver coins! It was a great payout!

That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.

WoodenJefferson

If I remember correctly it was just before Christmas in 1965 when we first saw the clad quarter in circulation. Not only did it look different, it felt different...just seemed out of place. The novelty soon wore off as you started to get more and more of the clad coinage in change.

goodmoney4badmoney

WoodenJefferson

We spent silver dimes, quarters & halves for face value and thought nothing of it...

derryb

I remember when I could remember.