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<p>[QUOTE="thomas austin, post: 2011070, member: 67451"]I still have the Whitman Lincoln cent folder from 1975. You can still see the polished fields from the #2 pencil eraser that I used on them to clean then up, ugh! </p><p><br /></p><p>Before interest in coins my cousin and I collected stamps. My aunt who worked for a local jeweler, would bring home envelopes with post marks and we would remove them and marvel at all the different styles. Her boss asked her why she was taking home the used envelopes and she explained all the fun we had removing the stamps. One day she came home with a pair of Whitman folders from her boss. The fun began in 1975![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="thomas austin, post: 2011070, member: 67451"]I still have the Whitman Lincoln cent folder from 1975. You can still see the polished fields from the #2 pencil eraser that I used on them to clean then up, ugh! Before interest in coins my cousin and I collected stamps. My aunt who worked for a local jeweler, would bring home envelopes with post marks and we would remove them and marvel at all the different styles. Her boss asked her why she was taking home the used envelopes and she explained all the fun we had removing the stamps. One day she came home with a pair of Whitman folders from her boss. The fun began in 1975![/QUOTE]
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