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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ndgoflo, post: 28300, member: 367&quot;]When I was a kid (around 10 years old) my uncle gave me a bunch of foriegn coin and currency he had accumulated while he was in the service. Still have it all, I thought I would never had to work, I mean, I had a 1,000 Lire bill after all!! My grandmother gave me about a half dozen circ. Mercs from the 40&#039;s shortly after that. A few years later I thought I would sell it all off to the local coin dealer for money for cigarette &amp; beer money. He explained that the dimes were worth less than 50 cents each and he also explain foriegn currency exchange rates. (Can&#039;t remember exactly, but that 1,000 lire wasn&#039;t worth the paper printed on it)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was smart enough to go without the cigarettes and beer for a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>I put all of that stuff away for years (actually forgot about it) and then I found a nice 1930-D wheatie in my pocket in 1997. Put it to the side for a while, I mean this wasn&#039;t your average circ. 40&#039;s or 50&#039;s wheat. Then one day while at the book store I thought I would look it up. Saw it was worth a couple bucks. Also noticed that there were plenty of pocket coins that held a premium (although I didn&#039;t realize how hard it was to pull a 1995 DDO Lincoln, let alone the 1972 and 1969 DDO&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow, I haven&#039;t spent a cent since that day, and I fall deeper and deeper into the coin abyss everyday!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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