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Recalling stuff that you bought with a single coin.
DocBenjamin
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Recall Archie comic books at a Dime. 4% Sales tax in my state did not kick in until about twenty cents, so you were good to go.
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Bought a pack of rolling papers at a hippie store for a nickel when I was about 11.
Didn't need them till college, but they were blueberry flavored and had cool artwork on the pack.
Glad the parents didn't find them.
Still can purchase a bottle of water at a New York newsstand with one dollar coin.
Phannemiller's drug store counter
Paper cone cup in a metal holder
Seltzer and a shot of coke syrup
Cost a Buffalo or Jefferson nickel
I'm talking '59-'60
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Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the Mai Kai.
Might of been after they raised the price to 30 cents, but I am sticking with the quarter.
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As a young boy, I could take a 1 cent coin and place it in a penny gumball machine and get 5 small gumballs. I remember when it changed to 2 gumballs, only a little larger in size. Then it went just a little larger and only one, and so on. Now the only gumball machine I have seen is a quarter dollar for one about the size of a quarter but thin.
Jim
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Bought three gallons of gas for my Bug, with three silver quarters in 1964.
bob
I would buy Bazooka Joe bubble gum for a nickel as a kid in the early 80's.
I bought a single pack of Topp's baseball cards for a nickel and a DC comic book for a dime.
Wayne
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I had a 63 Morris Minor with an MG engine that got 48 mpg. It held 7 gallons of gas, I filled it up every week or so for $1.50 or so. Would go on a date with $10 and bring home several dollars. Unreal today.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
First class postage stamp for a nickel.
Phone call from a pay phone for a dime.
Coke from a vending machine for a nickel until around 1960 and then later raised to a dime.
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
Was the postage higher for Pony Express?
Could get candy bars for a nickel or 6 for a Quarter, and these weren't the small little bars you see today. Those Milky Ways
or 3 Musketeers were about 4-5 inches long.
I also remember, like @WAYNEAS, buying Topps baseball card packs for a nickel. Five cards with a petrified piece of gum.
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Devil dogs were 5 cents….
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Yep, 1962 Topps baseball cards, 5 in a pack plus a piece of gum, for 5c.
What would an unopened pack be worth today?
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Not sure...but the gum would be just as fresh.
Any old timers here remember those gumball machines that took a penny for a gumball?
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
North of $3k
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266843541960?
I believe cigarettes were a quarter. A quarter for all day cartoons at the movie theater. As a kid I didn’t buy groceries (or cigarettes) but bet many staples were 25c. Lots of penny candy. Recall all comics were 10c. I believe Mad was 25c. Don’t shoot me if I’m off, memory is a funny thing. I was a kid in the 50’s. An allowance of 50c a week wasn’t unusual. Required chores.
I remember nickel Cokes at the gas station up at the corner, but you had to drink it there and leave the bottle. Nickel candy bars in the vending machine.
Bought a 1943 war nickel for a quarter at Woolworth.
Two of my favorites from the early 60's.
Baseball Bucks .....small play money like pieces with a baseball player on the obverse and the team logo on the reverse. They measured about 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches. You got one baseball 'note' and a stick of gum, on a cardboard and in a wax wrapper....one cent.
Chum Gum......two sticks of delicious bubble gum, in paper wrappers, with a little white paper band to keep them together....one cent.
A Chunky candy bar (5 cents), a Table Talk miniature pie (12 cents) a pack of Topps baseball cards (5 cents), with the remaining 3 cents in penny candy for a total of a quarter. And this was even after the quarter stopped being made of silver. Damn, somewhere along the line I got old...
Wow, you made big bucks if you received a fifty-cent allowance! I used to get fifty cents every two weeks and this was in the early to mid-sixties. All for mowing an acre's worth of lawn with a push mower, shoveling lake-effect snow from our 75' driveway, drying the dishes, taking out the trash and babysitting my sisters on bowling night.
Back in the day (1847)
There was a metal rack on the side of the machine where you left the bottle. The bottles were glass and they were collected, washed, and reused again by the bottling company. The bottom of the bottle showed the city of the original bottling company that created the bottle and it was fun see where the bottle originally came from. If you bought the coke from a grocery store, they charged a 2C refundable deposit. We would collect bottles from the side of the road and turn then in for the deposit. Of course, we would then spend the money at the store on candy.
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
In the mid-50's, cigarettes we 23c a pack and the vending machines would require a quarter but you would get back the 2c change which was packaged within the cellophane of the packs. This is how many of the 1955 DDO were initially put into circulation.
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
Beatles trading cards from the Helm's bakery truck for a nickel or dime (?). Now there's some unopened stuff that'd be worth some major $$$.
Of course PENNY CANDY, that's how it got it's name!! A roll of Lifesavers was just a nickel. A comic book was 12¢, just up from a dime, soon to become 15¢...but the Giant Size Comic Book was a quarter. Just checked, an Archie Digest is now ten bucks.
Pinball was a dime a game, and if you were decent, free games were not hard to win.
For a dime, you could swim all day at the local pool, get stamped and come back after dinner.
I would eagerly go to the tiny tobacco/newspaper store near my grandmother's house and hope they still had a copy of Coin World left, I think it was 15 cents in the early 1960's
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Hershey bars were a dime, “Zero bars” plus some other crappy off-brands, were a nickel.
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I was way off in my head when I read this question. I was thinking of how I sold my 1872-S Seated dollar to put a transmission in my wife's Chevy. James
P.S. I had a sour tooth instead of sweet. One giant pickle at the deli store 5 cents.
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Cable Channel MeTV has a show “Bugs Bunny and Friends” that shows every cartoon that Warner Brothers ever did, and in one episode Bugs bought a carrot out of a vending machine for a quarter, and it came wrapped in cellophane with two Lincoln cents inside the cellophane!!! Late 40’s or early 50’s.
I remember the old gumball machines. 1 cent got ya one 🥲
I remember Cokes for a Dime.
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At the local movie house, a truck outside sold Sabrett hot dogs for a dime or 3 for a quarter. The movies theater with 2 movies were a dime. At a White Castle you could get 10 hamburgers with onions for $1.00
That must have been in Albuquerque.
Do any of you old guys remember those vending machines on the men's room wall at many gas stations? I remember they took a quarter.
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
And saved you $250,000.
And after I quickly went through a dollar's worth of dimes, I said "no" to pinball machines. Afterwards I often wondered if a strong magnet would have controlled the balls ..
A Saturday morning movie small coke and popcorn for a quarter in the only place in town that was air conditioned.
some packs would have two cents enclosed with them, net price, $0.23.
Crown bologna sandwich with tomato, snickers bar and a 16 oz. RC cola for a Kennedy half.
Single packs cards of all 4 sports were a dime each late 60's early 70's.
Gallon of leaded gas was a fifty cent piece.
Late 1960's at school, a cruddy hamburger was forty cents, but they would sell the bun for a dime.
A kid was short on money, bought the bun and filled it with mustard, ketchup, onions and relish. Said it tasted as good as a burger.
Guess I met the first vegan.