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<p>[QUOTE="cdb1950, post: 53442, member: 1735"]I was 6 years old when my landlord gave me a handful of old Indian Head cents. I was pretty amazed that there could ever have been anything but Lincoln on a cent! (I led a very numismatically sheltered life up to that point) Soon, I discovered Mercury dimes, Walking Liberty quarters, Buffalo nickels, Walking Liberty halves, 2 kinds of silver dollars, and steel cents in circulation along with the current coinage of the mid 1950's. WOW! Was that ever neat! I was hooked. Bought some Whitman coin albums and started a Lincoln set. Each coin was polished to a brilliant shine with an eraser. It was a sparkling set! When the Lincoln Memorial came out in '59, I was just flabbergasted taht coinage designs could actually be changed at the whim of Congress. I realized that I really loved coin collecting. Been that way ever since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cdb1950, post: 53442, member: 1735"]I was 6 years old when my landlord gave me a handful of old Indian Head cents. I was pretty amazed that there could ever have been anything but Lincoln on a cent! (I led a very numismatically sheltered life up to that point) Soon, I discovered Mercury dimes, Walking Liberty quarters, Buffalo nickels, Walking Liberty halves, 2 kinds of silver dollars, and steel cents in circulation along with the current coinage of the mid 1950's. WOW! Was that ever neat! I was hooked. Bought some Whitman coin albums and started a Lincoln set. Each coin was polished to a brilliant shine with an eraser. It was a sparkling set! When the Lincoln Memorial came out in '59, I was just flabbergasted taht coinage designs could actually be changed at the whim of Congress. I realized that I really loved coin collecting. Been that way ever since.[/QUOTE]
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