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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 13874296, member: 90692&quot;]Here’s my 2 cents, knowing full well most folks will insist on giving me change…</p><p><br /></p><p>…in 1960 I got a toy metal rocket for Christmas, from my grandmother.&nbsp; It was a coin/piggy bank that had a spring-loaded trigger on the side.&nbsp; You placed a coin on the spring and pushed a button that triggered the coin upward at a very high speed into a slot in the nose cone.&nbsp; I mostly saved pennies, and it took me 2 years to fill that rocket, that’s all I could afford being nine years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I wasn’t focused on saving memorial pennies, because I was getting Indian Head, buffalo nickels and mercury dimes from daily change.&nbsp; I did manage to put many memorials in there along the way, but wheat ears were plentiful, back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you ask: what was I thinking then?&nbsp; Saving those coins?&nbsp; I was putting them in that rocket and a cigar box…Hav-a-Tampa cigars.&nbsp; But once they were in there I didn’t think about them, discovering them again 20 years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is when I became focused on preserving the coins I had, because I kept thinking what a shame it was that the IHC, buffalos and mercs were so severely worn, and what a marvel they would have been had they been saved and protected sooner.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, my friends, that is what pushed me over the edge and caused me to save and preserve many coins, because I had found them in great conditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I joined Coin Talk in Oct. 2017, and after my bubble was burst gently, and I learned a whole bunch, I began purging thousands of coins that I should not have saved.&nbsp; I discovered Whitman albums, coffee cans, jars and paper sleeves did not protect and preserve coins adequately.&nbsp; So now I use flips and capsules to preserve everything, and I don’t miss a wink of sleep.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP cents are good looking and need to be preserved accordingly when you find them.&nbsp; If you are like me, it becomes more of a mission than an obsession.</p><p><br /></p><p>Happy New Year to all!…Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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