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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3105283, member: 19463&quot;]My experience is more like Drawde&#039;s. Back when I was a kid in the 50&#039;s and 60&#039;s coin collecting was more popular with kids and was not an expensive hobby.&nbsp; I started by collecting coins from circulation.&nbsp; I had a lot of different cents and nickels but my half dollar collection was weak because of the smaller number of those I could afford to save on a quarter a week allowance.&nbsp;&nbsp; I sold/traded duplicate keys to get coins I lacked and was not at all embarrassed that my collection was not all mint state (we called it Uncirculated then).&nbsp; I got bored and started buying ancients instead when I got rich (translation: got a job).&nbsp; Those were not mint state either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting from circulation pretty much died in 1964 when everyone and his brother started taking 90% silver out of circulation.&nbsp; The days of finding Mercury dimes and Standing quarters died quickly.&nbsp; Now if a kid wanted them, they had to be bought at a store rather than snagged out of parental change.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had converted to ancients by then but I suspect that one change did as much to stop the flow of 8 year olds into the hobby as anything.&nbsp; Today, kids could collect State quarters that way but we tell them that they are wasting their time since they will never be worth having unless MS70 and slabbed.&nbsp; Not worth a quarter?&nbsp; That is rough![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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