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Message:: [QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 3972823, member: 89213"]The majority of my early coins were found in circulation. I started in 1948 when virtually any coin ever minted for circulation in the USA was possible to find in change. In the mid fifties I got a 20 cent piece in change. I did work at it. When I was young there were several Mom & Pop confectionaries in every neighborhood. I became friends with all the owners. I walked home from school and stopped at each of them. I would walk in, go to the cash register, open it and look through all the change. The owners knew me and trusted me. On Saturday morning I would go to the bank downtown. Believe me, I would walk in, go to the vault and sit on the floor. The tellers would bring me their change on a tray. I would roll it for them. Another place I would help was the amusement park. When they closed there was a ton of change to roll. There were many other hot spots that I would cover. Those were days when you had to prove that you couldn't be trusted. Quite the opposite of today. So, it was a very rich collecting environment and I filled most of my sets with the exception of the very rare coins.[/QUOTE]