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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7335016, member: 19463"]Your brother was very important to me when I was a kid and collected US coins from circulation. My mother would advance me the money (usually $50 - a lot in the 1950's) so I could buy a canvas bag of coins from a vending machine company in town. The coins were loose (not rolled). I would sort through these coins that recently bought a gumball or some such and replace the ones I wanted with ordinary coins. Then I would roll the coins in paper and take them to the bank (which required them to be rolled). I was convinced that some of my best finds were coins kids snuck out of dad's collection and spent on penny candy and nickel Cokes. Vending machine coins were better than the coins last used in some store that catered to adults because of the 'sticky-fingered kid' factor. I still have a couple Liberty seated dimes and coins just too nice to have been almost 50 years old and have been in circulation all that time. Thanks to kids with a sweet tooth, I got coins I wanted. Then, I discovered ancients and the thrill of bag searches went away. Today it bothers me that my young self was interested in coins only a few decades old. The average coin I collected is three times as old now as it was then. Ancients have barely aged at all in these last decades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7335016, member: 19463"]Your brother was very important to me when I was a kid and collected US coins from circulation. My mother would advance me the money (usually $50 - a lot in the 1950's) so I could buy a canvas bag of coins from a vending machine company in town. The coins were loose (not rolled). I would sort through these coins that recently bought a gumball or some such and replace the ones I wanted with ordinary coins. Then I would roll the coins in paper and take them to the bank (which required them to be rolled). I was convinced that some of my best finds were coins kids snuck out of dad's collection and spent on penny candy and nickel Cokes. Vending machine coins were better than the coins last used in some store that catered to adults because of the 'sticky-fingered kid' factor. I still have a couple Liberty seated dimes and coins just too nice to have been almost 50 years old and have been in circulation all that time. Thanks to kids with a sweet tooth, I got coins I wanted. Then, I discovered ancients and the thrill of bag searches went away. Today it bothers me that my young self was interested in coins only a few decades old. The average coin I collected is three times as old now as it was then. Ancients have barely aged at all in these last decades.[/QUOTE]
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