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  • ReadyFireAimReadyFireAim Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was about 5 (not sure).
    I got a shiny new penny and it had a bigger number on it than the brown ones.
    Apparently, I thought bigger numbers meant older. (as in longer ago)
    My dad taped several pennies to a piece of cardboard as a way of explaining.

    That's what my father later told me started it around 1969.

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glad you're back at it again. Looking at as many coins as you can (shops, auction lists, shows etc.) is very helpful and I've found this to be VERY helpful: https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#

    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong
  • Wahoo554Wahoo554 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jealous of all who enjoyed the experience of collecting coins in the 1960’s or earlier. I’ve actively checked every coin in my change for wheats, buffs or silver since I was a young kid in the early 90’s and it’s amazing how little circulates these days. I’ve maybe found 10 silver Roosevelt’s and a couple Washington quarters. No buffs or Indians or mercury dimes, etc. I’ve probably found 50 plus wheat pennies: a couple nice AU specimens. It amazes me how little silver is out there considering the fact that the average person has no idea that a dime or quarter dated 1964 or earlier is of any value.

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