ambro

I'm sure I'm not alone in still having my "kid" coin collection. Never anything fancy, just circulation finds from back in the early to mid sixties. But goodness those brilliant uncirculated 65 66 and 67 cents that I saved back then, well they are finally wonderous things to behold. The good old Whitman folders kept them in fine shape, though a few have finger smudges from being pushed into the book. And the memories....the dark chocolate 1919, at least MS63BN, well that was found bottle digging out in the woods. The 1917D, dad showed me how to find coins by ripping along the back of old furniture in the dump and finding coins lodged deep down. One old green chair yeilded a beautiful 17D lincoln with a lot of red still there. The 31 D I found on my uncles desk...and convinced he was a closet coin collector, and KNEW I lifted it from the hundreds on the desk, I hid out from him for a year. The 1908 Barber Half my mother got in change from Thailackers Florists, and the 1910D Quarter that the Mr. Softee man gave me in change. A 1796 Liberty cap large cent bought by mowing lawns, my first trip to a 'real' coin shop...set me back $45. The 1968 mint set....bought new, cost over $3 and I waited months for it....it is now worth $5!! The 1934S walking lib half that I got in change at sears, at least an AU and the 3 cent nickel that I found on a class trip to a local historic site....I wandered away from the group and was looking behind the building where the rains fell in a trough from the roof.

Coin collecting back in the day for me was sitting on the cold linoleum floor by the cellar door looking through moms coat pocket. You know, back then, coins circulated much longer. Cents in the teens, common, dated and undated Buffalos, common. Standing Lib. Quarters, most worn beyond dating...still circulating.

I never found an indian, never found a 1909 cent, but always looked. Ahhh, the good old days. It trade everything I own to be back in 1968 again, just for a day. To see mom and dad, to see Snoopy my Beagle, Id savor those moments like fine wine. But, like Fanny Kemble said " O Tempo Passato. The absent may return, the distant be brought near,the dead be raised an in another world rejoin us, but a day that is gone, is gone. And all eternity can us back no single moment of the past " (1832)

Magman

Cant say I know how you feel, as I was a kid in 1997 (10 years old) lol.
but Im sure it would have been fun!

maybe slightly off the topic, but Ive asked my grandpa about coins when he was a kid (10 years old in 1943) - he says he remembers how buffalo nickels, standing liberties, and such were common. and he remembers when that crazy steel cent came out, my grandma too, and how alot of people didnt like them, because it wasnt a "real" penny.

anyways, at least you have a few things you saved

Ed Goldman

The good old day's for me in coin collecting were 1947-1961

GaryBurke

I started serious collecting in 1956, and those next 10 years were wonderful. I collected U.S. and Canadian, and still have the coins in my Whitman folders and albums.

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ambro

Yup, after forty years those 'shiny pennies' from the early to mid sixties are now decent ms67rd candidates, I just sent some to pcgs for slabbing. Only had to wait forty years for them to finally be worth something! Found some near perfect 1963 to 1970 lincolns in there! Gotta hand it to Whitman, those folders done their job protecting the coins!