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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2181576, member: 71510&quot;]Interesting thoughts...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d think a lot would have to do with how we handled money as well.&nbsp; A lot of people don&#039;t carry change anymore (I always jingle a bit!), but a lot used to.&nbsp; Also it was common to pay for things in change &quot;back when a candy bar cost a nickel&quot; or at least a quarter in my day.&nbsp; With inflation we now pay in paper since there&#039;s hardly anything that is less than a dollar anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have more machines using change and a period when slot machines only used change - so in Nevada, we&#039;d see a lot of worn coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we were kids, we always carried a dime in our wallets for an emergency phone call, and I know I wore a few of them down pretty well (and a bunch were probably silver without me knowing it or caring!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatics are a wonderful and practical history lesson that can&#039;t be tainted by politics, censorship or time.&nbsp; They exist and tell a tale no matter what.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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