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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mickey in PDX, post: 8436061, member: 74864&quot;]I started in about 58 and would look through my parent’s cash register in their small store. They were kind enough to let me add to holes in my Whitman ‘penny book’. Then nickel book and dimes. I bought a 25 cent book but frankly it was too much to ask them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would come in from school every day and ‘look through the register’! I loved that. My blue whitman folder still has my finds. Never found any 1909-s VDB. Or 31-s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moved into proof sets. $2.10 for 50c, 25c, 10c, 5c, 1c. Learned to buy from Canadian Mint, French Mint and South African Mint. I was an ‘old’ stamp collector so loved writing to far off mints as much as receiving the coins. Even the Nepalese mint sold me a ‘specimen set’. Barely uncirculated and coins pushed into card board that stunk.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite thing was pulling 1950-D nickels from circulation. I found ads in the new Coin World newspaper that began to come out in 1962 I think, where dealers were paying 9.50 or 10 bucks per coin. Parents were impressed. I remember taking the money from those nickels and buying three Liberty $10 Gold coins. Circulated, different dates and mints. Those cost about $26 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>No local coin shops but we had a local Baton Rouge Coin Club and it met monthly. I was a junior member and would love to look at the tables of the two or three dealers. Would buy stuff and resell them to ads in Coin World. There would be a presentation each meeting. One was on medals awarded during WWII and I was able to learn how to get medals for dad and family members even some from Mexican-Border Campaign in about 1916. I still have some Wooden Nickels from our annual coin convention during 1962, 63 and about that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for listening this far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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