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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 4558797, member: 5233"]You know...I have really enjoyed reading these couple posts that you have put together. Really well written and it's fun to hear the personal part of the story as it was from an era of collecting I was not alive to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>The paragraph above is particularly interesting to me (I bolded the key part)...because of how backwards it is to my own experiences. I was born in 1985 and began collecting at around age 10. So, the "normal cents" to me were Memorial Backed Lincolns. I always thought the design was sterile and boring and I hoarded every wheat back I found in circulation. I remember how thrilled I was when I got my first 1950s BU red example...I thought it was beautiful. That Wheat Reverse as fresh as the day it was minted and I remember thinking how I wish they still made them that way. I remember thinking how much of a downgrade the Memorial Reverse felt to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are the first person I have ever seen who spoke of the excitement around that change in 1959. It was really cool to read that because it was something I had never even considered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 4558797, member: 5233"]You know...I have really enjoyed reading these couple posts that you have put together. Really well written and it's fun to hear the personal part of the story as it was from an era of collecting I was not alive to see. The paragraph above is particularly interesting to me (I bolded the key part)...because of how backwards it is to my own experiences. I was born in 1985 and began collecting at around age 10. So, the "normal cents" to me were Memorial Backed Lincolns. I always thought the design was sterile and boring and I hoarded every wheat back I found in circulation. I remember how thrilled I was when I got my first 1950s BU red example...I thought it was beautiful. That Wheat Reverse as fresh as the day it was minted and I remember thinking how I wish they still made them that way. I remember thinking how much of a downgrade the Memorial Reverse felt to me. You are the first person I have ever seen who spoke of the excitement around that change in 1959. It was really cool to read that because it was something I had never even considered.[/QUOTE]
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