New Idea! Step Aside, CRH!

Roy , I don't think that's a new idea . I've been doing it for more than a half a century .

Been doing that since the early 1970's as a teen. I remember the occasional silver dime and silver halves. Yep, we used halves and even Ike's because they had so much more purchasing power then, (we could buy a half-dozen chocolate bars back then with a 50-cent piece). I still get about a dozen wheats in change per year, as I use cash on a daily basis.

This, since I was little and started to understand what money was. And I still do: every time I visit a new country or revisit a country where money has changed, I take home with me a coin set, usually from circulation and sometimes an official one made by the bank, depending on if such things actually exist where I'm heading. So, I've taken over 2000 different coins out of circulation, out of change, worldwide.

Anyway, during my last trip to the US, a few weeks ago, I got a Northern Mariana Islands State Quarter in change. That was nice, as I didn't have that one yet.