Hello To All From Texas

As with most other forums. I neither buy nor sell coins. My primary interest has been and will likely remain just finding those things that slip through the fingers of those who don't care. For instance, just yesterday I found a 1979-S Roosevelt dime that had obviously escaped from a proof set. The occasional silver dime or quarter comes back in change. Once several years ago I got a Franklin half dollar. Quite a surprise!

Alan

Correction: I was looking at it for another reason with the loop and it is an "S" that almost looks like an "8" so to my "glasses only" enhanced eyes looked like a "D".....

Oh well.... not the first time I didn't see something right...

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John1

to the Community!

I'm still here. I log on every evening and read until my head hurts. Then I go look at coins until my eyes won't see. I am currently putting my collection from 1973 back together from rolls in addition to my part of my dad's collection which is also rolled. It is amazing that coins that were fairly common and those that would appear in circulation are now completely absent from circulation. Today, finding a pre 64 dime or quarter is a rarity, Franklin or Walking Liberty halves are none existent as are Standing Liberty quarters and Buffalo nickels. Barbers were before my time but those others were still around when I started collecting. Periodically someone will just go out and spend grandpa's collection and a few old coins will briefly be available. I'd imagine that they are snatched up as novelties by folks who like novelties...

None of my sons are into coin collecting so I am trying to label everything of real value so that they will get something for it at the very least. I have part of my grandfather's and father's collections, all of mine and about 500# of stuff to look through. There's nothing extremely valuable but it is all worth more than face value.

Some of it is just nostalgic. I found a quarter once when I was about 12 that had a weird sort of finish, shiny but slick... I asked my dad about it and he said it was one that someone had put Mercury on. I still have it. Takes me back to those sort of conversations that are gone forever now, except when and old man looks at a Mercury damaged coin and remembers his dad...

Oh well,

Still looking and reading and learning... I enjoy the discussions.


Alan