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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1725782, member: 15929&quot;]Perfect analogy!</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1967, my gross pay was $88.80 per week with a take home of about $65.</p><p><br /></p><p>A roll of dollar would have cost me 1/4 of my &quot;gross&quot; pay. A roll of half dollars 1/8.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, I got initiated into coin collecting at about 11 years old and at that time, Franklin half&#039;s were brand new coins. Could I have saved them? I suppose but generally speaking, I got my hands on a half dollar about once every 10 months or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Walkers and Standing Liberty Quarters were common place as were &quot;mercury&quot; dimes. But...............if simply was not economically possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today is a bit different since I get more in retirement each month than I made in an entire year. But then, my expenses have gone up just as much. However, $20 doesn&#039;t represent 1/4 of my income which makes collecting so much easier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the OP should give this stuff a little more thought before posting since the term &quot;I started as a kid&quot; is really wide open but it generally means that the collector got &quot;introduced&quot; to coin collecting when they were kids.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along with bottle caps.............matchbooks..........baseball cards.........etc.&nbsp; [ATTACH]268343.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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