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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joshua Lemons, post: 8435816, member: 82388&quot;]As kid in rural KY the early 1990s, residential Internet and computers were expensive to my poor family.&nbsp; In fact, the only person in my family to have them was my aunt!&nbsp; Plus, the Internet service was terrible dial up, its no longer dial up, but still terrible!&nbsp; I had three main ways to get coins.&nbsp; One was Littleton&#039;s &quot;Coins on Approval.&quot; Now as an older collector I know it was very overpriced, but I remember holding an uncirculated Merc. for the first time and just being amazed.&nbsp; Secondly, my local bank gave out prizes at Easter egg hunts each year.&nbsp; If you got a special egg you received, a shiny new silver American eagle! Traded some candy for one one year! When I got older, the bank was my source for these coins as they would order them from the mint and I would buy them.&nbsp; And lastly, my family would save any old coins for me they happened across, mostly wheaties and foreign.&nbsp; I visited the LCS few times before I began to drive because it was 30 miles away and I was at the mercy of my parents!&nbsp; I always had little time and little money so most of the trip was a window shopping experience.&nbsp; I do recall one time getting a bag of coins at a pawn shop.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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