Just thinking, when I first started collecting, you could buy a fountain Coke for a dime, pay with a dollar (possibly a silver certificate) and get the following:
Of course those coins were only twenty or twenty five years old at the time. Now we regularly get 50 and 75 year old coins in change.
Let's see, 50 I can believe since that would be 1963, no silver but some nickels and pennies. However 75 would put us back to 1938 - I haven't found anything like that for awhile.
I look at all the change I get in change, but I don't roll hunt. I still think you don't find that many nickels in the 50's and earlier. I don't, but that might come from living in CA. I put quarters I found in change away for years, especially the state quarters, with the intent of making a state set from circulation just for the heck of it. Going through them recently, I still am missing many of them - particularly P mint ones. Interesting things for kids to collect from change nowadays - State quarters, National Parks quarters, Jefferson nickels series, none of which are valuable, but collecting them can be fun. Remember having fun collecting and not buying?
In a box search of nickels I turn up an average of 2-3 1939 dated coins. I find about 1 1938 for every 10-12 1939 dated coins. They are out there.
So, a box of nickels is $100, or 2000 coins and you find 2-3 1939's...hmmm 0.15%, and after you have found 10 of these you find a 1938 for an overall 0.015%. That means to find one in my pocket change I have to go through almost 7000 nickels. Maybe I should re-consider metal detecting.
is this a real question? if so a "fountain" coke is what you get at gas stations or fastfood you take a cup push the button syrup and carbonated water come out together to make pop which tastes a lot better then bottled
I didn't know but I figured it was something like this. Still not sure why the word 'fountain' is used but I guess I can look it up I don't drink carbonated beverages of any kind so I'm no expert at this
I hunt for silver war nickels, Buffalos, very occasional Liberties etc. It is a cheap and relatively harmless form of gambling, and even my 8 year old is in on it now. The only date and MM after 1934 I haven't found is the '50-D.
I was a kid in the mid-60s, and it was fun to collect from change. I had Whitman books of Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, various silver quarters. I tried roll hunting recently, but discovered I didn't have the patience for it.
Trusting to my memory, which is never a safe bet, the biggest drug store in my hometown of 2000 people was the Fountain Korner. You could buy a small Coke which was dispensed from the soda fountain which mixed syrup and carbonated water in a set fashion (and if it wasn't set right, they would hear about it quickly). The small Coke was in a conical waxed paper cup that was placed in a metal holder. This cost 6 cents. If you wanted it in a larger waxed paper cup that had a flat bottom that cost 10 cents. Then you could go over and peruse the comic books that were there for 10 cents...Oh look a new magazine called Mad...wonder what it is...
If you used that dime to buy a bottle of Coke instead of a fountain drink, and you kept the bottle... http://www.ebay.com/itm/251270270488
No, no, no, that was the bottle of Coke that Doug bought. I should have kept my old ten cent Mad comic books! http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAD-Magazin...3001326?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item1c324d26ee
