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<p>[QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 4625279, member: 89213"]When I was 5 years old (1948) my aunt gave me an 1883 W/O Cents nickel and an 1885 nickel. When I found that the 1885 was worth $5 the bug hit me. In our town there were mom and pop stores everywhere. I became friends with most of the owners. After school I would walk home and stop at many of them. The owners came to know and trust me. I would walk in, open the register, search the coins, close the register and go to the next store. Most owners got to the point that they didn't even look up.</p><p>When I got old enough to work a couple of them hired me part time. 2 nights a week I would walk out to the amusement parks and help them close. My favorite job was counting and rolling all that change. They hated to do it.</p><p>On Saturday mornings I would go to the bank and sit on the floor of the vault and roll change for the tellers.</p><p>My dad was a railroad engineer. When he came home he would leave all his change on the kitchen table for me to look through.</p><p>These were days when you had to do something to prove that you were untrustworthy. You've seen a lot of the stuff I came across. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am at the point now that I am trying to figure out how to display. It is not easy when you have more than 70 years of your life accumulated. I will watch the comments on this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 4625279, member: 89213"]When I was 5 years old (1948) my aunt gave me an 1883 W/O Cents nickel and an 1885 nickel. When I found that the 1885 was worth $5 the bug hit me. In our town there were mom and pop stores everywhere. I became friends with most of the owners. After school I would walk home and stop at many of them. The owners came to know and trust me. I would walk in, open the register, search the coins, close the register and go to the next store. Most owners got to the point that they didn't even look up. When I got old enough to work a couple of them hired me part time. 2 nights a week I would walk out to the amusement parks and help them close. My favorite job was counting and rolling all that change. They hated to do it. On Saturday mornings I would go to the bank and sit on the floor of the vault and roll change for the tellers. My dad was a railroad engineer. When he came home he would leave all his change on the kitchen table for me to look through. These were days when you had to do something to prove that you were untrustworthy. You've seen a lot of the stuff I came across. I am at the point now that I am trying to figure out how to display. It is not easy when you have more than 70 years of your life accumulated. I will watch the comments on this thread.[/QUOTE]
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