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1964, age 9. I remember the transition from silver to clad, and my first Kennedy half. I remember squirreling away 1939-P nickels and pre-1940 wheats. And I remember finding a 16-S Walker in a sack o… (View Post)

My cost to attend this show: 4 hours to drive 200 miles, a half a tank of gas, the 10 dollar admission fee, and another 10 dollars at Subway on the way home. I couldn't find the higher-ticket coins I… (View Post)

I like to think of coins such as the worn Peace dollar as having done their decades-long jobs of greasing the wheels of the US economy. Imagine all of the purchases that were made with that coin. (View Post)

I am attempting to assemble a matched set of Walkers in VF. It took me 5 years to find the 16-S . It came in a PCGS-VF 35 holder with a green CAC, and I haven't seen another approximation to mine sin… (View Post)

Coin-themed TV programming in the 60's was perhaps merely a reflection of the great popularity of coin collecting back then. Obsolete coinage was easy to find in circulation, and roll collecting was … (View Post)