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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1216469, member: 21309&quot;]Our mother was the consistent long term coin collector in the family. She started us coin collecting at a very early age.&nbsp;&nbsp; We managed to fill couple and&nbsp; almost fill a lot of Whitman albums.&nbsp; A lot. . . .&nbsp; All probably pocket change circulated condition.&nbsp; Then when I became around twelve or so I discovered Ziggy, the owner of local hobby shop who would trade collector coins for</p><p>merchandise.&nbsp;&nbsp; My life changed.&nbsp; Wow, a 75¢&nbsp; balsa wood&nbsp; glider for only a few indian head pennies, choice quarter and maybe a dime.&nbsp;&nbsp; or some ammo for my 22 caliber Savage bolt action rifle only cost some choice dimes and some choice nickels.&nbsp; it got so bad mom would check the albums regularly and yell at me about the coins disappearing.&nbsp; I still have a lot of those albums of course all of them are missing key dates and mint marks.</p><p>On the upside last time Ichecked I had &gt;$800.00 melt value in quarters alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just remembered another event:&nbsp; During the 70s&nbsp; the Mint was selling CC dollars and advertising in the coin mags.&nbsp; I remember the prices started around $7.50 - $35.00 or so </p><p>then later on some relatively higher prices.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking too expensive and the $7.50 coins were beat up and maybe mint errors. (I know)&nbsp; Later one of the mags had a article about the mint having no mechanism to make bad checks good so dealers and others were ordering large volumes paId for with bad checks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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