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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1972459, member: 15929&quot;]for real Silver Dollars</p><p>So the card itself was destroyed?</p><p><br /></p><p>And in Numismania&#039;s defense I don&#039;t think it pissed him off. He was just making his point that sentimental only goes so far these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>AND, BTW, at $2.00 each minimum, $50 was quite a bit of money in 1971.</p><p>I think at the time, I was very pleased to be getting $3.50 and hour and $5.00 an hour was serious money.</p><p><br /></p><p>I often ask myself why I didn&#039;t stick away $10 rolls of Kennedy&#039;s and $20 Rolls of IKEs since the amounts just seems so trivial today.</p><p><br /></p><p>The truth of the matter was that $10 was a significant amount when you have a wife and two children to support and $20 was almost a weeks worth of groceries! Rent on our duplex was $150 a month and gas was in crisis mode with the OPEC Embargo! A reliable used car could be had for $450 while a weeks worth of Day Care was $25.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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