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Pillar of the Community
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My dad was born in 1927 and collected Lincoln pennies as a kid in a Whitman folder. Here is what he was able to find in circulation in those days. 1909 VDB 1909 S all of the S cents from 1910 to 1940 except 11, 14, 15 and 31 1914D 1922D In fact, he assembled an entire 1909-1940 Lincoln Cent folder from circulation with the exception of 1909SVDB and the S cents I mentioned above. It would be interesting to see if others could tell what their older relatives found and saved from circulation in their day. |
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 United States
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Nice story!  I do not have one to offer, but I hope to hear more from others. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Interesting! As a parallel, an aunt of mine lived in Sacramento from 1932 until 1942, and had a passing interest in Lincolns. She sporadically put them aside over the years, and I eventually came to own them - about 30 rolls total.
Nearly 75% were S-mints and around 15% D-mints. There were at least 15 of every S-mint from 1916 to 1941, excepting 1926 (6) and 1931 (2). There were multiple rolls of 1925-S, 1927-S through 1930-S, and 1935-S though 1941-S.
There were more than 60 AU (with some red) of 1929-S alone. There were several XF 1933-D as well, oddly.
Out of a total of over 1500 coins, only about 140 were from Philadelphia, and none of them had any appreciable value.
Better singles included 1909-S F (1), 1911-S F (1), 1913-S (5 pcs), 1914-S (1), and 1915-S (3 pcs)), 1916-S XF-AU (1), 1921-S XF (3), 1923-S XF (4), and 1924-S XF-AU (3).
These figures are taken from a notebook entry made in 1981 when I was given them.
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Pillar of the Community
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I started collecting coins from circulation as a kid in the mid to late 40s. I still have some of the silver Barbers I found. I would also go in a bank from time to time and the teller would keep a jar with a few silver dollars in it at her window. Some were pre 1900 and I still have those.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As an addendum to my story above, my aunt told me, some years before she passed away, that she was so poor that she only saved the nicest or most unusual cents she found. She worked at a grocery store, and even putting a penny aside back then was an effort. Imagine, and imagine living in S-mint country in the '30s with a few extra bucks to spend!
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Pillar of the Community
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You would probably strike it rich (well, not immediately) if you found a bunch of 1931-S cents or 1914 D's. Unfortunately, I am a first generation coin collector except for my great grandmother, as the rest of my family doesn't have a clue on why I save certain coins and tell them not to spend something if it looks important.
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what their older relatives found and saved Nothing, sadly my grandparents neither passed middle school, and were pretty much ignorant of money and passed this down to their children. They don't understand saving let alone collecting and think they have money it must be spent. the closest would have been my paternal grandfather getting me a silver dollar and silver certificate the year I was born, which my father spent on beer before I turned 2.  Imagine what they held in their hand and kept none of it would just depress me. My father wants a 19743 birth year set and said he would pay face value for it, and after I laughed in his face for an hour when he said that, I told him to jump back in his time machine and go back there when that money still existed is able to be found quantities and was worth face value. correction, that grandfather did save ALL pennies in glass gallon jars for the grandkids, but his wife...wanted a new washing machine so cashed them in on to get one over 40 years ago.. Like mother like son I guess. Just in case I have made an extra set of everything so far that I can like washington clad quarters, memorial nickels, clad halves.. why have 1 when I can have 2.. so should the need ever arise I will get to keep my set and pass on the spare. congrats on getting that folder, it must be attractive itself even before you opened it to find all the wonders it withheld. To everyone now saving to pass down to someone, first sorry I'm not letting any 2009 coin out of my possession yet when I get it, and kudos to you for helping future generations have less work on the harder coins to find that they may only get to see in museums or textbooks otherwise. |
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I can't go back to the 30's and 40's but can give some insight to the 50's and early 60's. My uncle worked at a bowling alley in McKinney Tx and pulled 38--D and 1921 half dollars out of the register in those years. He and I sorted bags of nickels in the early 60's and pulled War Nickels by the gazillions out of those bags. There were not many full date Buffalos, but scads of no dates. By the early 60's most of the 50-D nickels had already been pulled in North Texas. 38-d, s and 39-D nickels were still around. Silver started being hoarded in the mid 60's and was pretty much gone by 1970. The silver clad halves of 65 through 69 were snapped up as soon as they were released, too. One of my fondest memories is going to one of the local banks and being able to get rolls of silver dollars at face value in the early 1960's. I'd buy a roll, pull out the best coin (usually a nice 1921 Morgan or 22 Peace dollar) and then turn the 19 other coins back in. People ask me why didn't you keep the roll? You gotta remember I was mowing yards for 50 cents each and couldnt keep everything I found when looking through coins. It was a good time though! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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did the release of the Ike in the 70's start an uptick in peace and Morgan's being found CRH?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My great grandfather was a police officer for most of his life, and was given the cushy job of patrolling the parking meters as he was nearing retirement, back in the 50s and very early 60s. He put together a few reasonably complete sets of wheat pennies that he saved from the meters, and a portion of those were passed down to me. No key dates and very few S mints from the teens, but it always amazed me that people used to spend that sort of stuff on a parking meter.
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Pillar of the Community
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Im sure you could have picked up franklins and walkers and morgans like it was nothing
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Im sure you could have picked up franklins and walkers and morgans like it was nothing Wish I knew then what I know now!  |
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