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Do YOU remember seeing your first Memorial cent as a 'kid' collector?
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I certainly do. There was a little store up the street from my house, Billy Breders Store. You could see it from my front door and in those days a kid could do more things. I would have been five, maybe six years old. I remember thinking how neat it was to see lincoln sitting inside the building, and showing the penny to my mom.
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I think the collecting thing started after that, probably in late 1960.
The name is LEE!
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
I finally got around to opening them in my mid twenties. Turns out 3 rolls were 58's and only one was a 59. They
were all heads/heads rolls! Boy was I surprised. Don't know what I did with the wheaties but I do still
have the 59 roll.
Kept the wrong ones it seems. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
bob
Actually, I suppose I remember the coin before I cared about collecting...
<< <i>Sure... I was born in 1987
Actually, I suppose I remember the coin before I cared about collecting... >>
lol, as was I
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I still don't like the design.
Another thing, I don't like any of the designs proposed for the 2009 Cents.
I probably won't like them 50 years from now either.
Ray
My Dad saw me sorting and otherwise enjoying my treasure-trove and one day, I was given a leather pouch of old coins (mostly IHC's, some older but well worn Wheat cents, a few Mercury dimes, an 1870 Newfoundland half dollar, and best of all - a 1837 Large cent in Fine condition!). I was hooked and have been that way off and on ever since!
Yes, I remember the Memorial cent!
Pete
Louis Armstrong
I was in the 5th grade, and it was the spring of 1959. I'd seen an article about "the new cents" in the Weekly Reader which was a newspaper for elementary school kids that the teachers used as a teaching aid. I hoarded every one that I found and then lost part of my "collection" while playing baseball on the playground.
That Christmas my uncle gave me the 13 edition of The Red Book plust the two Whitman Cent holders that ran from 1909 to 1959 with blank spaces after that. I was soon going though all of the pocket change that I could find to fill in the holdes.
Of course, I started by collecting pennies
The first memorial cent I remember was the one that had Kennedy engraved in the field.
I think it was the mid-late 60's. Maybe early seventies.
<< <i>The first memorial cent I remember was the one that had Kennedy engraved in the field.
I think it was the mid-late 60's. Maybe early seventies. >>
I think that was 1973 the JFK/Lincoln thing. I've found a few of those in circulation before.
<< <i>Well I remember as a kid in the early 90's that it looked like a train car on the reverse. Thats still my impression when I look at them today >>
haha, don't feel bad, when I was young and dumb (around 6 years old) I thought the Lincoln Memorial was a dumpster.
Ya see, I would flip the coin on the vertical plane, so the memorial was upside down, forget the fact that the letters were too, I didn't seem to notice. Anyway, to me a the time an upside down memorial reminded me of a dumpster... why there was a dumpster on the back of a coin, I didn't know, nor did I have any intention of actually thinking about it.
Then about a year later I heard someone talking about it - flipped the coin over the right way, and what do you know!? It's a building!
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<< <i>Well I remember as a kid in the early 90's that it looked like a train car on the reverse. Thats still my impression when I look at them today >>
haha, don't feel bad, when I was young and dumb (around 6 years old) I thought the Lincoln Memorial was a dumpster.
Ya see, I would flip the coin on the vertical plane, so the memorial was upside down, forget the fact that the letters were too, I didn't seem to notice. Anyway, to me a the time an upside down memorial reminded me of a dumpster... why there was a dumpster on the back of a coin, I didn't know, nor did I have any intention of actually thinking about it.
Then about a year later I heard someone talking about it - flipped the coin over the right way, and what do you know!? It's a building! >>
same thing... except it was a balcony.. upside down, it looked like the balcony at church, didn't notice the words either
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<< <i>Well I remember as a kid in the early 90's that it looked like a train car on the reverse. Thats still my impression when I look at them today >>
haha, don't feel bad, when I was young and dumb (around 6 years old) I thought the Lincoln Memorial was a dumpster.
Ya see, I would flip the coin on the vertical plane, so the memorial was upside down, forget the fact that the letters were too, I didn't seem to notice. Anyway, to me a the time an upside down memorial reminded me of a dumpster... why there was a dumpster on the back of a coin, I didn't know, nor did I have any intention of actually thinking about it.
Then about a year later I heard someone talking about it - flipped the coin over the right way, and what do you know!? It's a building! >>
same thing... except it was a balcony.. upside down, it looked like the balcony at church, didn't notice the words either >>
Well, I thought that it was some sort of ladder laying on its side. I had a red toy firetruck with a ladder on the side so when I saw a red cent with that thing on the back, it sure looked like a ladder. I thought it might be somehow related to firetrucks.
While we're at it, I might as well confess that I thought that it was the same man on the nickel and the quarter, the only difference being that the guy on the quarter was naked.
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While we're at it, I might as well confess that I thought that it was the same man on the nickel and the quarter, the only difference being that the guy on the quarter was naked. >>
Subliminal?
j/k
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i was born in 89. boy do i remember my first wheat cent though. a 1911 that a shop owner gave me when i was around 7 or 8, could have been earlier
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<< <i>Yes I do, and I thought the design sucked. >>
Yup, me too.
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<< <i>Yes I do, and I thought the design sucked. >>
Yup, me too. >>
I thought the design was boring but greatly preferred it to the old design that I found
both boring and uninspired. Somehow the Lincoln Memorial just seemed a lot more
appropriate than a couple wheat stalks.
The new design did strike me as a little "busy" though.