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Message:: [QUOTE="haybailer, post: 199862, member: 4634"]In 1960 my mother would go to the bank and bring home rolls of dimes and pennies. We kids (my sister and I) would get the pennies and she would get the dimes. We mainly searched for "S" coins since we were in the midwest and they were rare but we were filling out coin albums. Then we would roll up the rejects and sell them back to the bank. She still has her coins put up in a safe deposit box and I still have my pennies. My greatest find was a 1914-D penny but you could barely read the date and mint mark. I  love to buy coins at auction and really like the Mercury Dimes. My finest is a 1925-S (Dads birth year) and it is a NGC MS66. Pretty good since there is only one MS67.  Full Bands of course. Mom and Dads birth years are 1924 and 1925 and these coins are very expensive in the top grades especially with the "S" mint mark. The thing I like most about coin collecting is finding one in circulation. Just the other day I got change out of a dollar changer and found a 1943 silver nickel that I would guess to be VF.[/QUOTE]