What Coins do you Remember Seeing in Circulation in the Past?

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I had a paper route also-The Grit out of Pa.. It sold all over the country. 50/50 split with the company. Back then it was 10 cents a copy. Sold seeds and Christmas cards door to door from the ads from the back of comic books. American Seed Company and American Specialty Company. The sold Amway door to door on my bicycle. Youngest person in the country to have to have a state tax certificate. Those were the days!

 

excellent anserw, I wish I had thought of it.

 

When I was a teenager in the early 1990's, I worked at Revco (now CVS). I remember getting a couple silver certificate $1, and even a few corroded 1900's indian cents. Occasionally a silver dime or Washington, too!

 

Back in the early 60's, I worked briefly as a retail clerk. Would see the occasional IHC and gold certificate.

Cal

 

my big box of change that I put away in the 70s includes coins going back to the early 1900s. I wish I put aside half dollars or dollar coins back then instead of small change.

 

Oldest coin I remember seeing in circulation was the Kennedy half, and even then it wasn't commonly used. Most people I knew back then, hoarded them thinking they were some special coins, and I'm talking about the non-silver ones. Occasionally people would use Ikes, and it still wasn't that common.

 

I wish I still had all the Kennedy's I tossed before I started searching for errors. Ike's also.

 

Silver dollars, half dollars, buffalo's an sometimes a SLQ, plenty of winged liberty dimes

 

Mid 1970s pumping gas and used to get 5.00 worth of Kennedy halves 1964-1969 from this one customer every week. 5.00 Hi-Test. I kept all those half dollars. Heck that was my pay for the day.
Cab drivers always tipped a dollar.
Earliest I remember were IHCs and Buffalo nickels in the 1960s.

 

1970, I was pumping gas at 28 cents a gallon. Those were the days. Fill up a VW for less than $2.00.

 

My first time in a gas station I got gas for 16.9 cents.

i was really pissed the following week when it was 18.9 cents, up over 10% in a week.

 

I was pumping gas when the price of a gallon breached a dollar. The pumps at that time only went up to 99.9.
So we calibrated the price on the pumps to half of the cost and then only pumped half of the total price amount. So if you wanted 10 dollars worth, the pump only showed 5.00 but you got your correct amount of gasoline. Actually made me a wiz at simple arithmetic. Hey 6.70 x 2 = 13.40
Made me realize how stupid the average customer was. Took ten minutes to explain to every single driver the pump situation.
What this has to do with the OP , I have no idea. Thanks for reading my random meandering thoughts.

 

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