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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25949968, member: 101855&quot;]I got more serious as a collector at around 1963. I never saw a bowling alley with human pinsetters. My mother told me of such things, but I never saw it. It was possible to get a lot of coins in circulation, but the best I ever did was get a 1909 Lincoln cent. I never saw an Indian Cent in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my schoolmates came to school with a 1908 Barber half dollar as lunch money. My mother, who was a teacher, bought the piece for me at face value. I still have the coin. It’s in Good condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you could go to the bank an get Morgan and Peace Dollars for a paper dollar, but the bank was small and didn’t have that many silver dollars on hand. Also a dollar was worth a lot more then than it is today. My pay for the week for cutting the grass and school lunch money was $2.50, which left me about $1.50 a week left over.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, no, when I was young, given that I lived in the country, outside of small town, building a complete set of modern coins was not really viable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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