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Valued Member
United States
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tamshowoff: $750 in cents marked pre 1982? [:o]  [:o]. I'm afraid I would have to take delivery on that windfall ! In fact, if you get out your binoculars - you might just be able to spot BadThad or Maineman coming for those goodies!  Seriously, if that stash is really 30 years old, your wheatie count will be double (probably), over modern rolls. And all those mint state coins from the 60's and 70's !  You should rescue them all ! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yes 66 today (born january 25 1945)  (Robby Burns day) Edited by collectall
01/25/2011 7:32 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
326 Posts |
collectall you got me by two months.
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Valued Member
United States
92 Posts |
OOOh the memories in the mid 40's as a 7 yr old I use to raid the money jug to buy penny candy.I was barely tall enough to reach the counter all the glass fish bowl looking containers had the most tempting looking goodies a kid can imagine and a cent or two bough enough to share with neighborhood friends.
We got our eggs from the backyard chickens,pork from the pigs grandma raised,fruit from the neighbors trees.Milk came in glass bottles delivered by the milkman who also sold blocks of ice for the icebox(today's ref.)for the younger generation.
Morgan's,Peace $ and silver were used to buy groceries not to put in albums. Thanks for the memories oh store bought bread was a nickel and movies were .25 another thought,forgot what I was thinking.gasman96
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Valued Member
United States
326 Posts |
Every Sunday my brother and I got a quarter each and that was enough to ride a bus to the next town, watch a movie, eat a bag of popcorn, and ride the bus back home.
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Valued Member
United States
326 Posts |
LastGold I forgot to mention the pennies were all picked and were pre 1982 but nothing before 1960
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Don't worry, I could still have doubled my money on those pre-82's without even searching  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am 59(but feel much older some days)and I remember silver coins very well. War Nickels showed up in change regularly when I was growing up. When I was about 10 years old,my grandmother left me look through her change jar which had been accumulating for about 20 years. I was collecting Mercury dimes at the time. When I was finished I had all of the Mercs except two very rare ones. About 3 years later I had some toy I "had to have" and spent the entire collection. Yes,I do kick myself every time I think about it! |
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United States
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Yep, over 50. Didnt really collect much in the way back years, but do remember my dad having 2 gallon paint buckets full of Standing Liberty quarters (his play money that mom didnt know about). I REALLY wish I had those now, but of course, he spent/deposited them. He is also the one that hid three hundred dollar bills in the barrel of his shotgun (he was a big bird hunter). He said he remembered putting them there at the exact moment he pulled the trigger. Number 8 quail shot leaves no trace of hundred dollar bills. Couple of bad moves, but I still love him. He is 88 and could still whip my butt if he could catch me. |
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United States
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United States
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I just turned 56 yesterday, four days after my father turned 85. Mom hits 86 on the 30th. Dad used to get silver dollars from the bank to give us at Easter. I have the last 10 dollars that he kept, nothing special, all common circulated, but with a lot of family history in them. My great, great, great, great grandfather (Obediah Hardesty) would have turned 253 this week if he were alive today! He celebrated his 20th birthday in 1778 (during The Winter) at Valley Forge. My teenage sons are only seven generations this side of the Revolution, an average of almost 35 years per generation.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I was just wondering after reading about all the excitement over newer coins if anyone on this forum is older than 50 and remembers spending silver and wheats?
I'm 46 and remember my Dad pulling silver coins from his change in the early 1970's. He had a "coin cabinet" packed with dozens of rolls of silver dimes and quarters that he got in change. Wheat cents were ignored. Billions were still in circulation in the 1970's. |
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United States
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i was thinking something similar to this earlier today. I was searching penny rolls for wheat pennies and read on a forum how it is really rare to find an indian. I get about 9 wheats per $25 box. what came to mind is when I am way older, my kids will be searching rolls for older lincoln memorials, and the wheats will be the really really rare ones. I just turned 22 so that will obviously be in quite a long time. so around the year 2051 when I will be 62 I will be posting on forums about how when I was a kid and was searching rolls, I wouldn't save '70s or '80s pennies. lol.
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United States
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Well under 50 but still remember pulling silver out of circulation.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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In my younger days I did a lot of world travelling and have spent current circulating silver coins in many countries.
My world collection was partly inspired by this fact. I questioned myself and answred with a question:
What types of world would I collect when my grandfather was a kid? The result is that my world collection has a heavy concentration on coins of the 19th century. In that period, gold as well as silver was in common circulation.
Yeah, I humbly admit to being well over 50. And I can still run 100 yards in under 20 seconds.
Edited by sel_69l
01/27/2011 02:02 am
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