Nixon ended conscription. My draft number was #3. Thought I'd be going to Nam like my sisters' boyfriends, but no. I enlisted like a grunt…. in the 70s, and then again in the 80's. And for odd reasons, combatants follow me where I go.
I bought my first silver dollar at the bank in about 1962. After the clads were issued, the 90% started to steadily go away, and it didn't take long, maybe 2 or 3 years until everything but the 40% silver clad halves was gone. They dwindled out around 1971 or 1972.
For Proof Sets (In the early '60s), you mailed your order on Day 1. A Proof Set was $2.10 (for $0.93 in face value) and they would send you an acknowledgement postcard in about 5 or 6 weeks IIRC, once your order was accepted. Then you just had to wait for months.
My first Mint Order was for an Uncirculated Set, and I think it cost me $2.40, but it was a better deal because the face value was $1.86.
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Back then, if something stopped working you actually got it repaired, instead of just throwing it away and buying a new one!
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
I was a young single guy, traveling salesman out of college. The period was a playing field of coin shows, strip clubs, bars, n girls. Go to coin show by day, party all nite. Had 4 goals (what I called Quad 100 - 3 were numismatic - 100 nice BU Silver Dollars and 100 nice BU $20 Double Eagles, plus 100 pieces of large size pieces of currency - Gem CU NBN my favorite (they were so cheap then). Accomplished all goals and were were salted away until 1986 when PCGS came out then 1990 taking tables at shows. I remember argument in bar (at hotel show was at) around 1978 with a couple of other show attendees about how you could only breakdown Uncs by Unc (MS60), Ch Unc (MS63), and Gem Unc (MS65) and we finished off a bottle of bourbon then ordered beers...and burgers.
Makes me sound like Gabby Hayes. If you don't know who he was, look up Roy Rodger.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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I bought my first silver dollar at the bank in about 1962. After the clads were issued, the 90% started to steadily go away, and it didn't take long, maybe 2 or 3 years until everything but the 40% silver clad halves was gone. They dwindled out around 1971 or 1972.
For Proof Sets (In the early '60s), you mailed your order on Day 1. A Proof Set was $2.10 (for $0.93 in face value) and they would send you an acknowledgement postcard in about 5 or 6 weeks IIRC, once your order was accepted. Then you just had to wait for months.
My first Mint Order was for an Uncirculated Set, and I think it cost me $2.40, but it was a better deal because the face value was $1.86.
I knew it would happen.
Back in the 70's people had to walk all the way across the room to change the channel on the TV.
They were barbaric times.
I remember those TVs
Some weren't even color!
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Back then, if something stopped working you actually got it repaired, instead of just throwing it away and buying a new one!
Now the part costs $4 and the repairman charges as much as for a brand new one.
It doesn't matter if a new one is $10 or $1400 that's just about what it will cost.
And once it breaks (which it will very soon) it will keep breaking again and again and again.
Cars last better, though.
Makes me sound like Gabby Hayes. If you don't know who he was, look up Roy Rodger.
That Roy Rogers.
Remember Nellybelle? Pat Brady at the wheel.
Then I woke up and realized the 1964 D Dime find was a big deal. You need to go back to the 50's to find anything interesting,