Time really does fly by.
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Checking out registry sets of Morgans, Peace and Ike dollars tonight to look at eye candy (particularly high grade MS and Proof Morgans) and a thought struck me.
Excluding the 1964 Peace Dollar, the gap between the end of the Peace Dollar (1935) and the beginning of the Ike Dollar (1971) is 36 years.
The gap between the end of the Ike Dollar (1978) and the present (2019) is 41 years.
While Dollar coins have been minted from 1979 forward on and off they are small and do not equate [nostalgia] to their bigger, heavier predecessors.
Further the last minting of any coin with silver in it for use in circulation (1969 Kennedy half dollar) was 50 years ago.
It is also hard to believe that I returned to the hobby as an adult 21 years ago.
Time really does fly by.
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Nostalgia is fun. You just made me think that I still get bicentennial quarters in change. That was the last quarter design change that I really cared about.
You also made me ponder - what would a modern circulating dollar coin with one-fifteenth of an ounce of silver look like? Would that get people interested in using dollar coins again?
It sure does. I started collecting in 1968 when there was still a lot of silver in circulation. Hard to believe that was 51 years ago!!
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Time does seem to go faster as we get older... Life is like a roll of toilet paper... the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.....
Cheers, RickO
I've been picking out the pre-1983 95% copper/brass cents from pocket change for a few years, just because of nostalgia. When I take a handful of them just to remember what real coins were like, they so very different from those cheap little things that sorta look like Lincoln Cents nowdays.
I get the same sensation with 90% silver, except that the clad coinage reminds me of military armor instead of coins with a value derived from their composition.
At least, there are nickels.
I knew it would happen.
Mexican Pesos from 57-67 contain 10% silver. I'd imagine they would be something like those.
Collector, occasional seller
A lifetime is forever to a child and the blink of the eye to older folk.
When you consider humans have been around a mere 40,000 years on a planet that has had life for billions we are rather ephemeral (so far) even as a species.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
Time also expands, contracts and shatters like something seen through a microscope, telescope, or a kaleidoscope. It changes to suit our perspective. It inexorably marches forward and waits for no man.
Candy bars cost a nickel, right?
Time has a way of changing things.
Take a look at Sacajawea dollars. Even the name of the coin is changed to Native American , as has the reverse design for a decade already.
And how about that shield cent ?
I still haven't collected any.
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I thought for sure this would be about Fugio cents
[Sundial "Time"] Fugio ["I fly"]
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Time, your best friend, your worst enemy. Use it well.
The "old man of the mountain" on the NH quarter is no more.
Even the space shuttle on the Florida quarter is now a thing of the past.