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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 387989, member: 4552&quot;]Sounds like a bunch of young people out there. When I was a kid there was no such thing as being carefull with a coin. If you were a coin collector, you handled them with your hands, put them in paper envelopes, pushed them into the only thing there was, a Whitman Folder, with your thumb. If that didn&#039;t work, a soft rubber type hammer.&nbsp; Occationally you could find a plastic flip type shapped thing at a hobby store. No such thing I ever saw called a coin store. Most hobby type stores sold stamps and/or wood model planes primarily, coins and other things were secondary. No plastic rolls. No books telling you anything about coins until 1946 when the 1st edition of the Red Book came out. It was labled the 1947 edition. No internet to check on coins. TV programs did not sell coins, only showed Hoody Dooty, not sure if spelled right, Captain Video or other great programs. Of course most didn&#039;t have those expesive things called TV yet. </p><p>We used coins to play games by throwing them at the line separations in the concrete sidewalks. Closest coin won all. We threw them accross rivers, threw them in fountains, threw them in wells. Many coins were placed on RR or street car tracks. In schools many were melted down with acids just to see what happened. It was considered good luck to place a coin in a place where they were pouring concrete. Holes were drilled in coins to make a necklace for a girl. Couldn&#039;t afford to buy her a real one. No one carred about dates and no one knew what a mint mark was nor was interested. </p><p>All coins, except pennies, were Silver and no big thing. I remember when the Mint stopped the Merc Dimes and started those odd Roosevelt things. Sitting Liberty, Liberty Head coins were common so no big thing. </p><p>AHHHH the good old days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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