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<p>[QUOTE="Doubled Eye, post: 7544245, member: 92790"]Ahhhh! San Francisco Mintmarks... in pocket change!! I grew in CT (Connecticut, people, not Coin Talk!) and loved finding S mintmarks in the late 70's when I started collecting. The was an old Woolworth's in town, then rebranded as "Wolco's" and on its last legs. In the months before the store closed someone set up a little revolving jewelry case selling...COINS!! The first coins I ever purchased, while my age was still in the single digits, were a 1968-S and a 1969-S Lincoln Cent, both in the shiniest ("shinniest" as we say at CT (Coin Talk, not Connecticut!)) of BU. They cost me 35 and 25 cents respectively. I gazed at those beautifully stuck S's for minutes on end, belching out a guttural "My Precious..." now and then. That was the first time as I kid I noticed that the '68 was super bulgy (my word for it) and the '69 was weirdly flat in comparison. I took them to Mr. Max Kaye, my LCS owner in Springfield, MA, who told me all about dies and hubs as my clothes soaked up the cloud of cigarette smoke that always filled his shop and sometimes blocked a clear view of the ceiling. Decades later in my 50's I have sometimes been known to buy BU rolls of both coins, just to rip open the paper and watch the s-bedecked jewels spill out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Doubled Eye, post: 7544245, member: 92790"]Ahhhh! San Francisco Mintmarks... in pocket change!! I grew in CT (Connecticut, people, not Coin Talk!) and loved finding S mintmarks in the late 70's when I started collecting. The was an old Woolworth's in town, then rebranded as "Wolco's" and on its last legs. In the months before the store closed someone set up a little revolving jewelry case selling...COINS!! The first coins I ever purchased, while my age was still in the single digits, were a 1968-S and a 1969-S Lincoln Cent, both in the shiniest ("shinniest" as we say at CT (Coin Talk, not Connecticut!)) of BU. They cost me 35 and 25 cents respectively. I gazed at those beautifully stuck S's for minutes on end, belching out a guttural "My Precious..." now and then. That was the first time as I kid I noticed that the '68 was super bulgy (my word for it) and the '69 was weirdly flat in comparison. I took them to Mr. Max Kaye, my LCS owner in Springfield, MA, who told me all about dies and hubs as my clothes soaked up the cloud of cigarette smoke that always filled his shop and sometimes blocked a clear view of the ceiling. Decades later in my 50's I have sometimes been known to buy BU rolls of both coins, just to rip open the paper and watch the s-bedecked jewels spill out.[/QUOTE]
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