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Message:: [QUOTE="Blatchford, post: 3448783, member: 102710"]When I was a HS student in Omaha, NE in the mid 50's, I liked to collect coins, but I didn't have very much money.  So, my collecting was confined to finding coins in circulation.  Back then, you could still find barber quarters and dimes, indian head pennies, and liberty head "V" nickels in circulation.  In order to increase my search for liberty head nickels, I decided that I should go to a place where there are lots of nickels in play.  I thought of a great plan-- I went to City Hall and asked to speak to the guy who collected and counted nickels from parking meters.  He had a large counting machine with a large rotating circular metal tray into which he would dump the nickels for counting.  The process was slow enough that he could see the coins as they rotated around in the tray before going "down the drain".  I asked him if he could spot and remove old ones and save them for me.  Since I was a kid and he liked me, he said he would.  So, over the course of 2-3 years, I would drop in every month and he would sell me his latest "yield" of "V" (and occasionally shield) nickels.  I suspect that, most likely, he saved the best for himself, but I was happy![/QUOTE]