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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J.T. Parker, post: 7648724, member: 106405&quot;]All this dime talk reminds me of my mom&#039;s &#039;middle&#039; sister, Aunt Nola.</p><p>She was a waitress for 35 years until the mid 1960&#039;s when she opened her small BBQ Shack.&nbsp; Before that, When I was a teen she heard I collected coins so she let me go through all the mercury dimes she had save from the many years of waitressing &amp; choose 5 dimes.</p><p>(She had saved every Mercury dime she ever received in tips because she like the design.)</p><p>I recall picking out a 1931-D Au condition and a 1926-S XF out of her small cedar chest full to the top.&nbsp; When silver hit $40/ounce in the great silver boom she sold them all for melt...$28,000.00 worth,</p><p>&nbsp;Alas, My dimes were sold in later teen years!</p><p>J.T.</p><p><br /></p><p>Addendum: Nola lived in the small Tx town of Madisonville, was one of my favorite aunts, and ALWAYS packed a short-nose 38 in her purse![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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