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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cush66, post: 50851, member: 1401&quot;]When I was in elementary school I used to get 30 cents every day from my mom. 25 cents was for the school lunch and 5 cents was for juice and a cookie at recess. I usually used the 5 cents to buy candy on the way to school or going home since I walked to school. Candy or gum wasnt allowed in school during those days so you had to sneak especially if you tried to eat it in class which I did LOL!!! It was not uncommon to get a standing liberty quarter or a buffalo nickel and sometimes the war nickels. Getting peace dollars with dollar bills was common just as it was getting wheat or lincoln cents. What was not common for me anyway was 50 cent pieces. I didnt see those until high school and I guess maybe it was because in high school lunch was 50 cents. What was really wierd was I went to Okinawa in 1964 (I was 10). The currency there at the time was U.S. so when I went to the corner store to get a soda (5 cents) I used U.S. coins (spent a lot of mercury dimes there hehheh). Then I went to Osaka and Kumamoto Japan and it was yen vs U.S. coins. I was totally confused since I had this pocket full of funny money mixed in with the U.S. stuff. By the way, the yen at that time was 360 yen to the dollar. Nowdays I dont really look at my pocket change except when I seperate them just to make it easier to turn in etc but I can automatically spot if there is silver in the pile then I usually get a little excited. I get more excited if I find a foreign coin but thats kinda rare here even with all the tourist we have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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