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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3253700, member: 99642&quot;]Yes, you are correct, Sir.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt if even 1% of non-collectors know that. That&#039;s just my guess.</p><p>I know that when I talk about coins at my part-time retail job, this aspect among them, no one seems to know hardly anything about coin collecting or even coins in general. It&#039;s always the parent or the grandparent in the family who has collected.</p><p>These youngsters, with their almost total lack of coin knowledge, sometimes, when they ask questions, make me feel, even with my limited collecting experience, as some sort of &quot;expert&quot;.</p><p>I try not to bask in such undeserved glory but it&#039;s like putting a bag full of chocolate caramels in front of someone with a sweet tooth.....I can&#039;t help myself.</p><p>They don&#039;t know the older ones are mostly copper and worth 2 cents apiece. They don&#039;t know nickels are worth 8 cents apiece. They don&#039;t know there are laws against melting pennies and nickels, but not against melting silver coins.</p><p>I could go on and on about what so many people don&#039;t know about coins and coin collecting.......and I might add myself to the list of those who don&#039;t know that much.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;m fond of saying :&nbsp; &quot; I learn something new everyday. &quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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