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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thought this would be a good topic to see if others were as stupid/ignorant as myself before you started collecting.I received 22 dollars in silver quarters from a customer,who was in her 50's and saving them in a jar, on my paper route when I was a kid,circa 1974,standing Liberty and Washingtons and spent them all in a pinball machine in the downstairs of our local Newberry's Department store.DUH. Edited by Halfwitty
02/22/2010 8:07 pm
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When I was a kid I put a 1931-S LWC on the train tracks and watched as the train flattened it. Just kidding,i did flatten a few regular cent though. I also torched a few coppers and a few zincs. And the worse thing I ever did was clean some coins.  John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I think scrubbing old coins was a given back in the day.The 31s is possible. Who knew? Nickles are great on the train tracks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I got a penny stuck in my nose and ate a nickel.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great toning on the way out.hahaha
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think I just saw a post like this somewhere only it was what sort of things did you do with coins. Don't see why you limit this to before collecting. There are many out there that collect and still melt some coins. Along with other stuff like making jewlery or things. Collectors do things to coins too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i said mine in that topic I think
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was thinking Naivete. Before you knew what you were doing. As a kid Carl.
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02/20/2010 9:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I was thinking Naivete. Before you knew what you were doing. As a kid Carl.
Still not always true. Even as a real young kid I and many others collected coins for a hobby. Still myself and many others didn't take them serious and still threw them, melted them, tossed off buildings, etc., etc., etc. I actually knew one kid that collected coins and had a fantastically large collection and still in grade school. Yet I saw him throw coins out of a 20some story building for fun. |
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United States
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When I was little I smashed a few quarters, dimes & pennies with a hammer on concrete to make them look like "pirate" money...thats about the worst thing. |
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United States
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I was always to poor to do anything dumb.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Last year, I tried cleaning a wheatie coin with easy-off oven cleaner...I know..I need to grow up fast.
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03/23/2010 9:01 pm
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