Sobering to realize that in six months....
Coinstartled
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Your 1970 dated coins will be half a century old.
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Modern crap
Oh please. I'm still trying to get over the fact I hit that milestone over a decade ago.
70's coins got nothin' on me!
Tempus fugit.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Imagine how I feel - it's my birth year 😵
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And the last year of 90% silver coinage will have been closer to the production of the Indian cent than to the present day.
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In 1970, I was terrorizing the world in my 1965 Mustang (got it for free, as it was totalled and abandoned, and I rebuilt it)
Ah yes....1970.... A very good year....Single, moved to Barbados for work (and play
).... I remember it well, and have coins from that chapter in my life....Cheers, RickO
That's what I always say. Fugit, age is just a number!
Fugio about it!
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
Ah, 1970......on a day like this I'd be riding my bike, with a transistor radio hanging from the handlebars hitting the pool for the afternoon then stopping off at the Dairy Sweet on the way home. Small town livin' - just can't help but reminisce!
It sounds like fun.
I remember the moon landing and a few other things. please don't remind me that was 50 years ago
I am just about finished going through the coins of my best friend's late father in law. I've seen too many Lincoln cents from the 1940s to count. They're all worth 1 cent. He had a couple of tired 1910 Ps in the mix. Doubt I could get $1 for them.
He also had a number of tired English pennies and half pennies, minted between 1900 and 1920. I got $12 for an 1912 penny in XF. But the ones in G or AG, I know I can't get $1 for them.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
And still pocket change. Edit, mostly.
I am going to come over on my walker and beat you with my cane!
The Walkers are even older!
Love that album
my year of birth
Memorial cents are approaching collectibility.
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...and the half dismes will be recalled by Nike.
I'm STILL waiting for the 1970-D Half to take off.............................
Pete
In 1970 there were only three collectors of clad coins, RS Yeoman, Herb Hicks (PAWOC), and John J Pittman. The Fed still wasn't rotating coin stocks (1972) so it was very common to get old BU rolls at the bank. Only the '68 and '69 mint and proof sets existed. Virtually all the silver was gone and wheat pennies accounted for about 15% of circulating cents. The vast majority of quarters were in high end XF or better and few dimes were lower than AU. Only seven different dates of dimes and quarters were in circulation at the beginning of the year though there were some interesting varieties. I believe CaptHenway was just getting a little experience at a coin shop in downtown Chicago (where our paths probably crossed for the first time). Pittman wasn't yet president of the ANA but had already acquired a significant portion of his collection.
People trying to sell old clads found there was simply no market for them. Arlan Kramer and Julian Jarvis began setting aside a bag or two of each new denomination just about the year before and then advertised them in the coin papers for years. Sales were poor but these rolls were seen once in a while up through the mid-'90's. In 1970 the prototype Ike was designed. It was the last year "circulating" silver was produced. Riots continued in many large cities. The Kent State shootings happened in May. There was some talk about bicentennial coinage around this time. Inflation was just beginning to spike and few could imagine the consequences or the scope it would achieve. The first earth day happened in '70 and they didn't need to clean zinc pennies from the parking lots in those days. The internet was about two years old (IIT had one of the original computers).
The first lunar landing was still fresh in everyone's mind and the last was still two years off. The sm dt S cent was fresh and selling for a whopping $1.50 which was comparable to the price of the '60-D sm dt. Now days a nice specimen goes for $40 and the '60-D can be had by the roll for $1.50
Dollars were starting to get very popular probably because of the treasury release in 1964. Indian cents and bust coins were popular. Younger people often liked mercs. Foreign coins were terra incognita and it would be years until the first Krause catalog came out.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
But tempus sure do fugit.
I was still in college. Going to become an accountant so I could have a sit down job. Still had Coin World and the ANA ahead of me.
I was stilling filling my diapers.
Watching in awe as man conquered the Moon. Still in awe five decades later.
You guys are taking me back to 1990. I love it!
Wow, all of these people were born in 1970
Andre Agassi
Chris O'Donnell
Matt Damon
Melania Trump
Phil Mickelson
Now I do feel old
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Me too! But my had push pedals.
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I quit collecting in '68 because I needed the money tied up in my buffalo nickels. But I did window shop at Harlen Berk in '70/'71. Mustta been another young man. I always tried to drop in the shops and watch my change in those years to keep up with the hobby. I got my first "real" job in '71 and in '72 I read in the Chicago Tribune that the FED was going to start rotating coin supplies and got interested in pocket change.
I always read your articles in the coin papers. They were usually relevant, interesting, and very well done.
Hay wait a minute I’ve got a 1970 mint date this sucks 😝
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
As they say, I wasn't even a twinkle in my dad's eye then.
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i love Barbados! i'm impressed you lived there.
hmmm, maybe toned coins are a bad thing. i'm so confused right now.
Phil will be a terror on the seniot tour.
I remember when it was hard to believe that 1970 was 20 years ago. I guess that was approx. 1990.
Speaking of which the country will soon be a quarter of a millennium old; sestercentennial.
Fifty years ago I had already been to Vietnam and BACK!
Actually I got back in April of 68. 
Glad you made it back ok, Dime.
And to think, if you were a collector with your Stack's coin buying pocket book (about half the length of a check book and just a thick and wide) that cost 25¢ back in 1969, you have graduated to senior collector status....
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