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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randy, post: 184972, member: 7504&quot;]badger1602&nbsp; </p><p>Registered User&nbsp;&nbsp; Join Date: Dec 2006</p><p>Location: Worcester, MA</p><p>Posts: 30&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Quote:</p><p>Originally Posted by mrbrklyn</p><p>The coins haven&#039;t been fundementally changed in 70 years. Their is no proof that masses want dead presidents. In fact, there is evidence to the contrary but nobody in their 40&#039;s has ever seen any other coins, AT ALL in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OUCH! That made me feel my age. Especially since I celebrate a birthday next week and moving to the near end of my 40s.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, it&#039;s true. I can remember when I was 1st starting out in the early 1960s, you could still go to the bank and ask for things like Silver Dollars. I used to go to the bank with my folks on Fridays. I would bring a portion of my allowance savings, to buy coins. After a while the tellers knew me, and what I liked to collect. I got Morgan and Peace dollars, Walkers, Buffalos, SLQ&#039;s, Mercurys and wheaties by the roll! But for some reason, Jefferson War Nickels were very scarce. I think my Grandfathers generation of the time hoarded them, and some day vast hoards are going to show up on the market in BU and GEM UNC.!</p><p><br /></p><p>Those of us who lived through this heyday of coinage should count ourselves lucky. This will never happen again. Hell, there are even whole generations of kids, and some adults, who have never seen a Half Dollar or even an SBA...</p><p><br /></p><p>About 8yrs ago when I started at my Movie Theatre as a box office attendant, we had raised our rates. We went from $6.25 to $6.50 (were at $10.00 now.) Because of the rate increase we went through quarters like there was no tomorrow. We taxed the local bank supply to the point where we had to use Kennedy Halves for change. I can remember handing these to kids and them asking what it was, and if it was real or a token!!!! This happened again in 1999 with the influx of SBA&#039;s just before the glut of the SAC&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for letting me ramble... </p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>I find it odd that in my lifetime that the current set of coins is the only thing which remains strangely unchanged.&nbsp; The entire map of Europe and Africa has changed and the USSR has been destroyed but a washed out protrait of Washington is still staring at me on a quarter.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Change is needed and I&#039;d like to help make some change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Randy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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