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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2508725, member: 19463&quot;]My parents divorced in 1953.&nbsp; I spent a lot of time by myself for the next few years and developed an interest in coin collecting.&nbsp; My mother would loan me $50 (a lot of money in the 1950&#039;s) so I could buy a bag of cents from a vending machine company.&nbsp; I went through them and kept out the good ones while rolling the rest and turning in the rolls at the bank.&nbsp; They would not accept loose coins in quantity but I had a lot of free time.&nbsp; This method provided me with quite a few duplicate semi-key coins so I took my surplus to a coin shop to trade for things I had not found.&nbsp; I never could justify paying over face for a coin but I could accept trading a cent worth a dime for a different cent worth a dime.&nbsp; One day at a shop I saw a dish of ancients.&nbsp; Since they had no face value, I could allow myself to spent 50 cents on a coin using a few of my surplus coins to pay the bill.&nbsp; Before long I lost interest in looking for scarce dates but got a job so I could buy ancients.&nbsp; I sold all but three of these in 1974 (I have shown those three many times here).&nbsp; I never photographed most coins back then but made aluminum foil pressings of many.&nbsp; I really would love to find even one of my first collection coins again but have never seen one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below are a few.&nbsp; Who has my coins? The first was a 50 cent pick out.&nbsp; The others were not.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]533203[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533204[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533205[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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