What were you doing in 1977 ?

1977 was a good year for me I was in college, had a good paying steady job, a sweet Georgia Peach as a girl friend, my first new car a 77 Camaro, and lastly I was a coin collector.
Searching bags for error coins....as you'll see 1977 wasn't a great year for Thomas Jefferson Nickels, or maybe it was.....
First up an 1977 P Broad struck Jefferson in MS -65 with slight reverse collar. oh yeah FS too!

 

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Next we have an 1977 Jeff that's an off center strike 5% oh yeah 5 full steps also...

 

how about an 8 % off center and again 5 steps in a nice 65 grade.

 

how about 2 % more making it a 10 % off center strike and yes still 5 full steps in again a 65.

 

That brings us up to 25 % off center,5 full steps and MS-65.

 

now at 40 % we still haven't lost our steps but again still a nice MS 65 nickel.

 

But now at 60 % forget the steps......still looking like a MS 65 to me

 

and last but not least a double struck and no full steps but ....a double F.S. have a look

 

Nive coins!.. I was waiting to be born in 77

No jeff but I have a nice multi-error 77 quarter though. Does that count

 

I also bought a new Camaro in 1977 and still own it. The insurance cost me more than the car payment. The two payments took a big hunk out of my coin budget.

 

Great coins! Those were the ones I was looking for back in 77.

 

Nice coins, @Paddy54 !

I was tending bar in Ocean City, MD in 1977, and the only thing I remember is that the bar I worked at, Pirate's Den, served the coldest draft beer in town for 65c a mug. At the end of each shift, it wasn't unusual to sort through $25-$50 in change which accumulated in the tip jar. Unfortunately, I was too tired to check all of it. I just cashed it all in for folding money.

Chris

 

In 1977 my parents didn't even think about having kids

 

I was in London and bought one of these...or something like it, in a black felt box, from a money exchange in Piccadilly.



I thought it would be a fantastic investment because, you know, that old lady would probably be dead in another year or two. And everyone in England would want the Jubilee coin to remember her by, except maybe Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious. I wish I still had it. I'm sure it's been to Pluto by now.

 

I was i my last year in high school, working in a pizza parlor, and collecting shield nickels

 

1977 is the year that my great uncle died. He was a coin and stamp collector.

Most of his collection was auctioned by Sotheby's, other parts were randomly sold off, and about a dozen remaining coins I still have, just the way he left them, in old cardboard 2x2s. I also have a boat load of old stamps, if anyone out there collects and is looking for items from the 30s-60s. Probably nothing special, other than a couple that I am aware of.

He was single and had lived with my widowed grandmother. After he passed, when my mother would visit my grandmother, I always spent time going through my uncle's "cool stuff" that he had in his little 7x12 "hobby room" - stamps, coins, WWII stuff, 40's & 50's knick-knacks, etc... One time, I found 100 sequentially numbered $20s tucked away in his closet, which I promptly gave to my grandmother. I wonder how many kids today would find that stuff interesting/exciting, as opposed to sitting around playing their video games. It was an adventure that I enjoyed.

Here's one that I inherited:

 

Here's my only 77 error (I think)...

Something about the way it looks got me especially how it appears as though the date is melting

 

That's really cool looking.

 

I was 6 years old in 1977
Here is my 1977 error -

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In 1977, I was waiting to be born.