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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 147952, member: 4552&quot;]Hey what is this OLDER collectors stuff. We are just well educated with numerous years of experience and are glad there is Medicare. I think Most of my cars are older than most of the people on this forum. </p><p>&nbsp;As someone else noted about the 1943 Steel Cents. When I was a kid they were just coming out and my Dad used to give me lots of them and all like brand new because they were brand new. I still have 26 rolls of them. Also, Mercury Dimes where the most common dimes although there were many Liberty Head dimes in circulation. Same with Buffalo Nickels. Jefferson Nickels were just coming out and no one liked them. Lots of people still don&#039;t like them.&nbsp; Although Washington Quarters were the latest thing you could still see lots of Standing Liberty and Liberty Head Quarters in circulation. Walker Half Dollars were the only thing in that size and my Dad gave me my allowance in Morgan Silver Dollars. Spent them the following weekend at an amusement park here in Chicago called RiverView. I only saved the Peace Type Silver Dollars because as a kik I thought they looked better.&nbsp; Most expensive coin I ever saw back then was a tray full of 1916D Mercury Dimes selling for $1.50 each in a coin shop window. I bought them all. Had to take out a loan from my sister to do it and she charged interest although I didn&#039;t know what that ment. No such thing as the Red Book or any other book on coin prices. Nowadays I think people make more on coin books than on the coins. No Dansco, Whitman, Littleton, etc type Albums. Only the Whitman folders with slots that had glue in the slots to help hold the coins in. No 2x2&#039;s, no plastic rolls, no coin shows and no coin forums on the internet. </p><p>I not to long ago mentioned to a neighbor&#039;s daughter that when I was a kid&nbsp; we didn&#039;t even have TV. She just stared at me and asked &quot;What did you hook up your Atari or other games to?&quot;</p><p>I started coin collecting when my Dad gave me coins all the time and by the time I was a teenager I already had a few complete sets of Lincoln Cents, Mercury Dimes, Buffalo Nickels and lots of other ones. Occationally stopped collecting with the marrage stuff, children, house and more and more cars. Then back to collecting coins and now have many, many sets of each denomination. Not because I&#039;m old, because I&#039;ve been around for a long, long time. But not OLD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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