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TheForce
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USA
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 Posted 03/11/2010 3:13 pm
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Back in the 50's and the early 60's, how common was it to see Barber coins and buffalo nickels and mercury dimes and walker halves in your change or roll searches?
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Penny Guy
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United States
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Posted 03/11/2010 4:02 pm
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In the late 50's in Flint Michigan, I recall numerous Buffalo nickels and Mercury dimes, not too many LW Halfs though. Of course tons of wheat cents and the occasional heavily worn IHC. I would only keep the nicest wheat cents, up to a quantity of 5 of each date and mint mark. That's all that would fit into a 2x2 envelope. Still have a very lightly circulated 1959 Canadian half, I put that into a flip the day I got it in change on my paper route.
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Neil
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United States
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Posted 03/11/2010 4:29 pm
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I had 2 paper routes in the mid 50's, in Los Angeles. When I collected sometimes I could see my change through the smog, and there were tons of merc dimes and buffalo nickels. One customer tipped me a 1904 St. Louis world fair medal. I wasn't into coins, and was disappointed. I would've preferred a fifty cent tip, so I threw the thing away.
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GoldRush58
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United States
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Posted 03/11/2010 7:32 pm
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My mother owned a restaurant near Lansing Michigan in the early and mid 60's. I was allowed to search through the till for older coins. Over the years I found many Indian head nickels and mercury dimes also some barber coins including V nickels. Many walking libs and some peace and Morgan dollars. She did have a friend that she let have the barber dimes, I can remember being mad when I found a 1901 S and had to give it to him.
We had a corner store near our home. I would ride my bike around collecting pop (soda) bottles to take to that store, 2 cent deposit on a bottle. Most times I would buy a comic book with that money, but if I spied old coins in their cash register I would use the bottle money to buy coins. One time he they had a lot of walking libs I rode my bike home to get what money I had, and hit my mom for a couple bucks, went back and bought 12 from him, that was a big buy for me then, that like 1964 or 65.
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Thehammer77
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Canada
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Posted 03/11/2010 10:50 pm
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Here in Canada, my dad and grandpa did lots of roll searching in the 60s in Canada. He just said he would find one walker half every 20 rolls.
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