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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8434994, member: 27832&quot;]My grandparents got my older brother and me interested in collecting back in the (very) late sixties. I was <i>very</i> young (well under 10), with something like a 25-cent-a-week allowance, so I didn&#039;t do a lot of buying.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember my brother going through the tiny classified ads in the back of one of the coin magazines. As I remember, they charged by the line, so things were very compressed, something like &quot;Poor man&#039;s 1955 DD, 10cS + SASE, &lt;address&gt;&quot;. Translated, that meant &quot;send me a silver dime and a self-addressed stamped envelope, and I&#039;ll send you a &#039;Poor Man&#039;s 1955 Doubled Die&#039; cent&quot;. Lots of others, like a dated Standing Liberty quarter for 35 cents in &quot;common&quot; silver change.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s funny, but I don&#039;t remember ads listing flat dollar prices, only the ones &quot;trading&quot; for silver. I don&#039;t know if that was a policy thing, or a &quot;don&#039;t send cash through the mail&quot; thing, or if I&#039;m just not remembering clearly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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