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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8241566, member: 19463&quot;]I remember them a lot when I was a kid in the 50&#039;s.&nbsp; Fifty cents was a lot of money and served&nbsp; to buy many meals at the kind of diner I frequented for lunch in Junior High (our school had no cafeteria so we either walked home or ate downtown).&nbsp; I paid cash with a half but remember more in circulation then were Walking Liberty style.&nbsp; This all came to a halt in 1964 when they put JFK&#039;s head on halves and people who loved or hated him started avoiding them or hoarded them.&nbsp; My mother saved all she got.&nbsp; When the changed to the 40% coins in 1965, we started paying with two quarters and got out of the habit of using halves even when they stopped having silver.&nbsp; As I recall, my standard favorite lunch was a Manhattan open face and a coke. WIKI tells it as I remember it and I grew up in central Indiana.&nbsp; I no longer eat either beef or gravy but I remember thinking it was a real deal in the late 50&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who admits to having played the game where each kid bought a 10 cent, 6 oz. Coke from a machine and the one with the bottom of the bottle farthest away got his free?&nbsp; To make this coin related:&nbsp; Who knows the ancient coin dealer who also wrote the book on collectable Coke bottles?&nbsp; I should have kept some of the ones I got rather than turning the bottles in for the 2 cent deposit. </p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=5th+edition+bill+porters+coke+bottle+checklist&amp;mkevt=1&amp;mkcid=1&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;campid=5338792814&amp;toolid=10001" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=5th+edition+bill+porters+coke+bottle+checklist&amp;mkevt=1&amp;mkcid=1&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;campid=5338792814&amp;toolid=10001" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=5th+edition+bill+porters+coke+bottle+checklist&amp;mkevt=1&amp;mkcid=1&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;campid=5338792814&amp;toolid=10001</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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