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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 5424611, member: 21705&quot;]This reminds me of the types of coins I could still find in circulation when I first began collecting in the mid 60s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin collecting was really big in the 50s and 60s when you could find these in change and even silver was not unusual. My dad started collecting then and so I started as well. The difference is he only collected circulating coins and I branched out into purchased coins when Christmas shopping at Foleys.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, when I see these in circulation now, I immediately think of two reasons they have returned to circulation. One, they are stolen and Two, they have been given to or inherited by children of collectors from a bygone era.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the number of coin counters in use today, it is no longer as likely that even those who might formerly have pulled out an odd looking or older looking coin will do so now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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