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Message:: [QUOTE="Coinlover, post: 309758, member: 6032"]heres a nice horror story from my dad. back in the early 60's my dad had a complete set of 1909-1958 wheat cents including the 1909S VBD, 1909S, 1914D, 1922, and 1931S. it was a COMPLETE set. since this was in the 60's these coins had to been in nice shape. anyways his brother that is now my uncle wanted to buy ice cream at school. he didn't have any money but rembered the lincoln set my dad got for his birthday. so he pops all of these coins out of the holders and guess what? takes them to school and buys ice cream for all of his friends. my dad did find out about this and told his mom. my uncle got a pretty nice butt wooping for that. another story i have is from my grandmal. a LONG time ago she had a huge jar of flying eagle cents, indian, and wheat cents just lying around in her closet. my dad still rembers it was a pretty large jar filled to the top with just these old cents. the house they were living in caught on fire and melted the glass jar and all of the old coins in there. and to top it all off she threw it away! :desk:i almost died when i heard this story its almost too much.[/QUOTE]