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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;10gary22, post: 977804, member: 23626&quot;]The wife had me go with her to the grocery today, so while there I went to the samll bank inside and got 20 rolls of cents to search. The young lady working as head teller knows that I search cents a lot. She came over and asked me to look at these funny &quot;black&quot; pennies. She said &quot;Have you ever seen anything like these ?&quot; LOL Honest truth. I think she needed verification as to whether they were real coins. She had about 10. Of course I asked if she wanted me to take them off her hands. She said that if they were real, she would take them home and show her husband.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I explained how the steel cents were started because of the copper needed for the war effort and they were steel coated with zinc, magnetic, etc. I doubt she wanted that much info. LOL Might not have even know what WWII was ? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I really am having a hard time digesting this still. I mean, are we seeing the end of the Wheat Cent collectors coming on the scene ? Without popular breakout coins in the LM cents, is there any interest ? I mean in the heyday of the 50;s when everyone it seems collected something, was when most of us started, right ? Now it&#039;s investment grade and legacy sets. Dealers are folding up brick and mortar operations and going on=line. Nobody around here even stocks folders and supplies except for a single dealer with a couple of shelves.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Are we going the way of the &quot;pen pal&quot; days ? Just dying out ?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am not around any young people at all, so really don&#039;t know what&#039;s happening out there so let me know.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>gary[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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