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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1338640, member: 112&quot;]I started collecting in 1960. Then Frankies were current, so of course you saw them. Walkers were fairly common, as were Mercs, Wheats, an occasional Buff, and once in a great while an SLQ. Silver dollars were less common but there were plenty of them out there. Morgans were far more common than Peace. I even used to go to the bank and buy rolls of Morgans, my aunt worked at the bank. I&#039;d look them over and return the ones I didn&#039;t want. Bags were way beyond my reach. But rolls were pretty easy. I delivered papers, shoveled snow in the winter, cut grass in the summer, and worked with my parents - all from the time I was 7. So it wasn&#039;t too hard for me to save up $20. Back then I never spent anything ! Wish I could have kept that habit !</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, people would use any or all of these coins to pay the paper boy as he made his rounds every week. Back then a daily paper was 10 cents, so the bill for a week was less than a dollar. So of course you paid in coins. Sometimes you got paid with bills, and yes sometimes with silver certificates. Usually singles, sometimes $2 bills, and rarely $5s.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the switch to clad came along it was announced long before &#039;65 so the silver started disappearing really quick. By &#039;65 there wasn&#039;t really a lot left, but there was some. For that matter there still is some, but in tiny numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, Kennedy halves were a big deal ! I kept every one I ever saw. I met John Kennedy in 1960 during his campaign. Even sat on his knee on the front porch of our home - that&#039;s partially why the coins were so special to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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