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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7793253, member: 100459&quot;]I know it.&nbsp; I just like the way it sounds.&nbsp; I remember when Toyota was imported.&nbsp; Everyone, jokingly referred them as Pepsi Can cars.&nbsp; Many of you may be too old when Toyota first hit the market in the U.S.&nbsp; They were cheaply manufactured and was not very sound.&nbsp; Most Americans posted signs in their rear window of their Toyota.&nbsp; &quot;My Toyota may be made of Pepsi cans, but I can now afford a car.</p><p>Maybe that&#039;s how their coins are made,....?&nbsp; I can now joke about it because I have a 2003 Corolla CE with 150K miles and still going, a 2007 Camry LE with about 60K and drives like a dream, a 2015 Toyota Tacoma TRD with 60K, and last but not least, my wife&#039;s 2015 Toyota Camry SE with 50K.&nbsp; They are all serviced at the Toyota Dealership.</p><p>Whoops!&nbsp; I am sorry for side tracking.&nbsp; Getting back to the Steel Wartime Pennies. As most of you have found out, everyone that gets one whatever means possible, they hoard them up.&nbsp; I pay cash at the grocery store and other sources for coins.&nbsp; I don&#039;t round up so the employee can pocket the coins in the round up bowl. Anyway, have any of you gotten a wartime penny lately?&nbsp; I doubt it.&nbsp; They are being hoarded by someone that thinks they are going to make some money by selling them over ebay.&nbsp; I like to get any coins I can get.&nbsp; I use to be able to look into the cash drawer to see if there was anything worth getting, but with the COVID, most stores have put up plexisglass shields to &quot;protect&quot; their employees.&nbsp; I cash checks at the drive through, so there is nothing available there.&nbsp; Several years ago, a cashier that had been a student of my wife&#039;s, knew I collected odd coins.&nbsp; She had gotten a gold covered Indiana 500 quarter.&nbsp; A customer thought it might be worth something, so the cashier told the customer that she would check with a coin collector.&nbsp; About a month later, I came into the credit union and she showed me her &quot;gold&quot; coin.&nbsp; She was devastated when I told her it was worth a quarter, Maybe.&nbsp; Anyway, I gave her a quarter for it and told her that if I found out anything about it, I would let her know.&nbsp; That was years ago.&nbsp; She asked me once if I found out anything about the coin.&nbsp; I told her that it was still worth a quarter.</p><p>NOW,&nbsp; Do any of you have any thoughts about the coin?&nbsp; I though about giving her a few dollars for her trouble.&nbsp; I do like the coin.&nbsp; My parents were from Indiana, so I do have a tie to Indiana, although the only time I lived in Indiana, was when my father was serving there after the trouble we were having with North Korea.&nbsp; I have a picture somewhere that shows him at one of the gates between North and South Korea.&nbsp; I doubt that the gold color on the coin is only paint.&nbsp; That was in 1959.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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