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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;whopper64, post: 3744185, member: 101364&quot;]This story is sort of bittersweet - when I was a kid my father owned a neighborhood grocery store in a small town back East.&nbsp; We delivered rather small orders for free to many older residents within 10 blocks of the store.&nbsp; I rode my trusty bike (before it fell apart) with these groceries and in several homes I was invited to partake of huge jars of old coins for both paying of the bill and/or a small tip for my services.&nbsp; The only advice my father gave me was to look for indian head pennies and other old coins and then give them to him!&nbsp; He would reimburse me if it was for a tip, but he never showed me his collection of old coins.&nbsp; Same with the store, when I operated the cash register, my father told me to look for old coins, take them out of the till, and put them back on his office desk.&nbsp; If I only knew then what I know now, I&#039;m sure I missed out on quite a few valuable coins.&nbsp; I remember Barbers in all denominations, indian heads, mercury dimes and even Morgans.&nbsp; To make a long story longer, I was so interested in sports that I never even thought about collecting old coins.&nbsp; This was back in the 50&#039;s and it was a gold mine of treasure, especially the older residents who just had many of these old coins in big jars and probably had no clue as to their worth.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t decide to start collecting coins until after I retired and moved out West 12 years ago.&nbsp; I really enjoy it now for the history, certainly not as an investment.&nbsp; Will pass my collections on to my daughters so they can enjoy what I never got to do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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