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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 1024227, member: 4580&quot;]A gift card?&nbsp; I see.&nbsp; Thanks, Duke.&nbsp; : )</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny, but I&#039;ve never seen one or heard of coin machines like that before.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have no idea how many coins I have found in pay phone coin return areas, and vending machines.&nbsp; </p><p>Wow. $1,000???&nbsp; Maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>At Riverview Park, an amusement park in Chicago, long closed now, I walked through the Barrel of Fun which was a large tube with wooden floor inside, 360º of floor since it was rotating all the time at a speed that upset folks and they would fall over and roll.&nbsp; A man in front of me lost about $7.00 in quarters and a five dollar bill.&nbsp; I handed him the fiver and he told me to keep the change.&nbsp; It all fell out of my pocket and out of the Loop-o-Plane, my next ride.&nbsp; Drat!</p><p><br /></p><p>Like most most collectors (LOL), I started with change from my dad&#039;s pants pockets.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t mind.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t greedy, just persistent.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my birthday one year, relatives and friends at my party passed around a baked bean pot and put a few coins in it then asked me to count the money.&nbsp; I counted it and they passed it around again to check my math, then told me to count it again, that I&#039;d been wrong.&nbsp; I liked that game. The crockery pot made about four trips around the circle.&nbsp; Great fun.&nbsp; Then my dad gave me a genuine college football.&nbsp; I was in heaven, and I was rich, and I would become a football player.&nbsp; I was ten -- it was December 1st, 1952.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I got an allowance each week.&nbsp; It started at 50¢.&nbsp; It was $5.00 when I was a senior in high school.&nbsp; I had to do household chores to earn my allowance (pay).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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