Old Coins
#1
Old Coins
So I know that I am a dinosaur and I actually pay with cash quite often. I can always feel when I get older change as soon as it hits my hand. I grabbed a six pack from the local liquor store after I left the grocery store. I could hear the clink of an early something. Turns out it was a 1964 quarter which are still silver. I looked closer and found this...
130 years old. I imagine all the hands that have touched this penny. I dig stuff like that.
Anyone else into or care about old coins anymore?
130 years old. I imagine all the hands that have touched this penny. I dig stuff like that.
Anyone else into or care about old coins anymore?
#4
I too have quite a collection. My Morgan silver dollars are my favorites along with some Ben Franklin half dollars. Many Mercury dimes and a bunch of silver quarters.
My Dad got me into collecting coins when I was just a kid.
My Dad got me into collecting coins when I was just a kid.
#5
It's odd. I consistently get old coins from this one liquor store. I have for years. Even though it has changed hands a few times.
I have some Buffalo Head nickles also but they are worn and you can't read the dates.
I have some Buffalo Head nickles also but they are worn and you can't read the dates.
#7
I've got a 1909 SVB penny, I was into mostly pennies when I was a kid but have jugs of them from the 70's on I thought that someday I might sit with a grand kid and sort them. My dad had a great collection, most of which was stolen by some dirtbag friend of mine when I was a teen. But still have a few paper 25 cent bills. I never knew he had until after he died. I used to go to the bank and get rolls of pennies and sift through them. It was a fun hobby.
Steve
Steve
#8
I have a large cent, a peace dollar, several '64 Kennedy halves, Ike half dollars, an assortment of silver dimes, worn quarters, and more $1 silver certificates than I know what to do with.
#9
#10
My coin collection was traded in to buy my first car, a 1970 Nova. I had that collection from when I was 11 to turning 17 and out it went for the car. No regrets. The big ticket item was the 1909 S VDB in VF condition. My mother and my sisters gave me alot of guff for spending so much money on a penny. Not much was said when I sold it at double what I paid for it. Victory.
#11
That's quite a find No1Oldsfan! My brother & I also used to go to the bank & exchange a roll of pennies for another & sometimes you'd strike paydirt. I still look at my change today for older coins, but very rarely do you even find a wheat back penny today.
#12
Years ago you could buy folders that you placed coins of each year in a little slot. I have these for pennys, dimes, quarters, nickels, etc. I also have two dollar bills from the thirties, they were said to be bad luck but I kept them anyway. Somewhere I have my uncles "short snorter". That is a dollar bill that had all of the crew members names of their bomber during WWII. He was a co-pilot on a B17. If they went to a bar and didn't have it, that person had to buy drinks.
#14
Maybe you should pass them on now. If they really don't mean much to you pass them on.
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