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Message:: [QUOTE="Marshall, post: 7609228, member: 21705"]I've been collecting for a while. I remember when a neighbor first told me she had a brand new 1968 cent with a D. I told her it couldn't be, because they stopped putting mintmarks on coins in 1964. Four HUGE years before. Such a pronouncement from a 10 year old coin expert fell on deaf ears. Then she showed it to me and I couldn't believe my eyes. We were squarely in the center of the Denver Mint distribution area. Even Philadelphia mint coins were scarce while San Francisco mints were like finding gold. I'm old enough that silver, Indian cents and Buffalo Nickels weren't completely gone from circulation yet. They were scarce, but you could find them searching rolls. And search I did. But I never made it to the motherload rumored to be in Vinton just 10 miles away. It didn't receive new mint distributions so the coins circulated longer. My DAD had our bank keep 7 Silver Dollars for me for my seventh birthday in 1965. I think that's what introduced me to the hobby, but you can imagine the memories are a bit uncertain. But that's when I started to get lunch money and had access to the coins. That's also when Banks would give away metal "piggy banks" of a sort to the children. I had a car bank that looked like a model T.[/QUOTE]