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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1217077, member: 21309&quot;]&gt;I would find that hard to believe. For one thing the GSA and the Mint cashed the checks long before they shipped out the coins.&lt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Good point. I hear you.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, I&#039;m repeating what I read.&nbsp;&nbsp; At the time I used to read two different&nbsp; coin magazines every month.&nbsp; </p><p>I don&#039;t remember which magazine had the article.&nbsp; At the time I did not have the money or the foresight to buy any of those coins however my brother did.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;I wonder if the early sales were handled by&nbsp; a subsidiary?&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a long time ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m sure some others on CT have details about the early sales.</p><p>If I&#039;m confusing the early sales with another event I apologize but I don&#039;t think so.&nbsp; I do remember eventually the problems with sales even out.</p><p><br /></p><p>&gt;But we have Badges&lt;</p><p>and Medicare and AARP</p><p><br /></p><p>&gt;You&#039;ve got to look at the bright side when reminiscing about the past. My teen years started in 1960. In 1964, I bought a brand new Corvette for cash with money I won from one pool match. It costed $4900. In 1966, I traded it in on a brand new GTO Tri-power which only cost $2300, and 103 octane Sunoco was 25c a gallon. There isn&#039;t anyone under 25 or 30 who has ever seen car and gas prices like that!&lt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sweet rides both of them</p><p>Nice story about a colorful youth.&nbsp;&nbsp; How many games in that match?&nbsp; Nine ball?&nbsp; Straight pool? Still play pool?&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>While you were tooling around in a &#039;64 vette I was struggling to keep a flathead V8 &#039;49 Ford four door on the road.&nbsp; Later on I got a part time&nbsp; job in a auto garage&nbsp; so I could put together a 41 Ford coupe with Mercury V8 flathead, Iskenderian 3/4 race cam, Offenhauser aluminium heads, Scott fuel injectors mounted on the lower end of Stromberg 97 carbs. Don&#039;t remember who made the three carb aluminuim intake manifold. or the tricked out ignition system.&nbsp; And eyeball flames on the front sides of the big hood courtesy of JC Whitney.</p><p>JC Whitney Auto&nbsp; mail order was my friend in those days.</p><p><br /></p><p>After giving it some thought the &#039;41 Ford coupe was 1960 or &#039;61.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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