Another "Remember when" for those 60+
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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.....
I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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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.
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.
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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
BHNC #203
I had maybe $20 in quarters, getting rid of silver ones to hoard clad.
Little did I know that they all were that way.
Man that's old!
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
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Pete
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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.
Jim
With clad quarters we could change channels just droping them on the bar.
That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.
Enjoyed numismatic conversations with Eric P. Newman, Dave Akers, Jules Reiver, David Davis, Russ Logan, John McCloskey, Kirk Gorman, W. David Perkins...
That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.
Enjoyed numismatic conversations with Eric P. Newman, Dave Akers, Jules Reiver, David Davis, Russ Logan, John McCloskey, Kirk Gorman, W. David Perkins...
That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.
Enjoyed numismatic conversations with Eric P. Newman, Dave Akers, Jules Reiver, David Davis, Russ Logan, John McCloskey, Kirk Gorman, W. David Perkins...
That channel "clicker" makes me laugh. Cool story.
Enjoyed numismatic conversations with Eric P. Newman, Dave Akers, Jules Reiver, David Davis, Russ Logan, John McCloskey, Kirk Gorman, W. David Perkins...
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