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Message:: [QUOTE="mralexanderb, post: 347125, member: 7851"]In the early 60's, when I was 12, there were 5 of us, with piggy banks, jars of coins, cigar boxes our folks saved, and our own meager change from our newspaper routes. Then we all decided to put these coins in the blue folders and see what we had. We all got penny, nickle, dime, quarter and 50 cent Whitman folders. On our own we started slowly to fill these books. One day we all met at Marty's house to go through his coins. His dad came in with the largest coin jugs I'd ever seen. And there were plenty of them. (That's when I realized that Marty's family was rich). Well, we all climbed on his bed and his dad poured a "ton" of change in the middle. We started going through the penny's first because that is what kids dealt with then. We mostly filled his Whitmans fairly easily and then went on to put decade dates in piles. That's when I hit on my first GEM find. I picked up a bright red shiny penny and said: "Hey look at this. There's something wrong with this penny". It was a 1955 doubled die obverse in perfect condition. Well, none of knew anything about coins so I said: "Let's put this on the side for later." I passed it around and everyone touched it and said something about it. We went on for many days looking through Marty's coins not really knowing what we were doing but loving it just the same.Later that year I moved away and never found out what happened to that 1955DDO. And I still wonder about our 5 sets of fingerprints we left that day. What does this have to do with coin collecting today? Well, I hope there are still young boys and girls getting together and pouring through jars and cans and cigar boxes of coins, not for the money, but just for the fun of it. Bruce[/QUOTE]

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