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Message:: [QUOTE="Kevin Mader, post: 3972973, member: 106826"][USER=89213]@Inspector43[/USER] That is incredible!  What awesome memories!!  Thanks for sharing. I was lucky too...but around 30 years later than you.  I had two paper routes so I had a steady stream of change to pick through.  I still got decent silver in my change in the late 70s and plenty of Wheaties.  But that wasn't enough so my brother and I would combine our tip money to purchase $50 bags of cents; we'd get a bag every Saturday while our parents had breakfast at a local diner and search it in the back of my dad's station wagon.  We found many great coins; early Lincolns and many with mint marks.  I split them up a few years back into two circulation cent albums keeping some of the harder finds and giving the rest to my brother.  I've been meaning to tally up things wondering how close we got to a complete set.  Of course, the rarer/rarest cents were missing, but there were a few surprises.  I think that's what set me out to be a 'purist'.  The challenge is enticing!!  Unrealistic??  Yes, for most series.  But a true enthusiast will chip away at that ice block, even with a popsicle stick.[/QUOTE]