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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 322649, member: 8012&quot;]I don&#039;t know if we&#039;re being serious here or not.&nbsp; But I can&#039;t afford a &quot;normal&quot; type set.&nbsp; Instead of collecting coins with holes, I&#039;ve started collecting the ones that have grafitti on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This all started when I stumbled across an 1832 Bust Half that someone had scrawled &quot;Born July 11&quot; on the obverse.&nbsp; Well, guess what - my Birthday is July 11 and I couldn&#039;t resist.&nbsp; The Coin has XF detail - and that very, very lovely &quot;Born July 11&quot; on the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Priceless.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;ve added four other &quot;grafitti&quot; type coins to the album.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of times we talk about coins being history, etc.&nbsp; Well, I&#039;m sorry and I mean no offense, but collecting MS-68 coins is not my idea of that.&nbsp; Oh there&#039;s the quarterly visit to the bank safety deposit box with cotton gloves to look at the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Give me your AG coins - the one with rim nicks - the ones that have been shot with a bb-gun - THOSE are cool coins - not the flipping museum quality coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve just bought a Whitman cardboard folder for Peace Dollars and another for Morgan Dollars.&nbsp; They&#039;re the push-in type folders. Each one cost $0.25.&nbsp; I plan on going as far as I can with an AG/G set of coins.&nbsp; Coins that were USED, and in many cases, cherished by our fathers and mothers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I was growing up in the 60&#039;s, my elders were just tickled pink to slip you a half-dollar if you shoveled out the driveway or whatever.&nbsp; And of course, Christmas was when you got the Silver Dollars.&nbsp; And they weren&#039;t MS-68 - they were well-worn specimens.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>HA!&nbsp; I guess I&#039;m trying to get back my childhood!!!&nbsp; Good luck on THAT one!!!</p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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