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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1970752, member: 19463"]It is in an Italian restaurant. I saw one guy eat more than my whole family could eat in a setting. I seriously believe the food is a greater interest to half of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The VDB is not an S and came out of circulation in the 50's. The reverse is its better side. Back then it was not uncommon to find decent grade older coins in circulation. The theory was that kids raided dad's coin collection for money for gum and soda. That is how I got started in ancients. I used to sell duplicates I found at a coin shop. I never could bring myself to pay over face for coins in circulation but did buy a couple oldies (2 cent, large cent) and started getting ancients the shop had in a 50 cent pick out dish on the counter. I don't still have any from that dish but they were nicer than you get for 50 cents today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1970752, member: 19463"]It is in an Italian restaurant. I saw one guy eat more than my whole family could eat in a setting. I seriously believe the food is a greater interest to half of them. The VDB is not an S and came out of circulation in the 50's. The reverse is its better side. Back then it was not uncommon to find decent grade older coins in circulation. The theory was that kids raided dad's coin collection for money for gum and soda. That is how I got started in ancients. I used to sell duplicates I found at a coin shop. I never could bring myself to pay over face for coins in circulation but did buy a couple oldies (2 cent, large cent) and started getting ancients the shop had in a 50 cent pick out dish on the counter. I don't still have any from that dish but they were nicer than you get for 50 cents today.[/QUOTE]
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