An Old Coin Memory That Haunts Me
bhartman35
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Hi, Everyone.
Just thought I'd share a childhood memory that I look back at that makes me shake my head nowadays.
When I was a kid, I used to go over my grandparents house and look at coins. (Kennedies, Ikes, and common Washington quarters, mostly, as I recall.) Anyway, I used to do rubbings with a pencil and a piece of paper to get the coin's image. I must've done it a million times, but now as I look back, it must've done a number on the coins themselves. (Not that they were anything particularly valuable. This is at least 10 years into the period in which coins were clad, and I never did rubbings of any obsolete coinage.)
Ah, the foolishness of youth...
Just thought I'd share a childhood memory that I look back at that makes me shake my head nowadays.
When I was a kid, I used to go over my grandparents house and look at coins. (Kennedies, Ikes, and common Washington quarters, mostly, as I recall.) Anyway, I used to do rubbings with a pencil and a piece of paper to get the coin's image. I must've done it a million times, but now as I look back, it must've done a number on the coins themselves. (Not that they were anything particularly valuable. This is at least 10 years into the period in which coins were clad, and I never did rubbings of any obsolete coinage.)
Ah, the foolishness of youth...
If you haven't noticed, I'm single and miserable and I've got four albums of bitching about it that I would offer as proof.
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As a young girl, Emery May Holden learned the love of coins from her father, Albert Holden, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper and an active collector from 1910 to 1913. Decades later, Emery May and her husband, Ambassador R. Henry Norweb, resumed collecting in a big way, expanding the family collection with purchases from great sales.
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<< <i>Anyway, I used to do rubbings with a pencil and a piece of paper to get the coin's image >>
It's good you were actually into something. Maybe you were trying to fathom the mysteries of the photocopy technology? Etch-a-sketch?
No harm done.
You are forgiven.
Say 10 Hail Marys and go on with you life.
Seriously though, I think a lot of us used to do that. No haunting memory here though. Used to put stacks of coins on the railroad tracks too.
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<< <i>Anyway, I used to do rubbings with a pencil and a piece of paper to get the coin's image >>
It's good you were actually into something. Maybe you were trying to fathom the mysteries of the photocopy technology? Etch-a-sketch?
No harm done.
You are forgiven.
Say 10 Hail Marys and go on with you life.
I'm a recovering Catholic, so I think I'll hold off on the Hail Marys.
As far as the coins go, it's just something I thought about recently as I picked up collecting again. I'm sure none of those coins are valuable now, but it just makes me cringe a little. It can't have been good for them.
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Later to sold on eBay as RARE / RAINBOW toning
<< <i>Somewhere, Someone's little Brat probably has their permanent magic markers out 'coloring' a coin....
Later to sold on eBay as RARE / RAINBOW toning
As long as they are using their own definition of rainbow toning