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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1060, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;ve always been fascinated by circulating coins and the stories they could tell.&nbsp; Especially those stories about statistics, metallurgy and commerce. I was heart broken when the silver was displaced in 1965. Not only did I lose the silver, but more importantly all those little history and math lessons.&nbsp; It became apparent after very few years that the fed wasn&#039;t rotating the stocks of coins in storage. It was not unusual to find brand new five or six year old clads in circulation because of this.&nbsp; There was no reason to start a collection of clads if as soon as you identified the good dates the mint was going to release a few million more of them.&nbsp; Then in 1972 there was an article in the Chicago Tribune that said the mint and fed were adopting FIFO accounting and would begin rotating out the coins that had been in storage the longest.&nbsp; It&#039;s been a blast ever since. Ironically, the best part of it is that the coins weren&#039;t being messed with by collectors because they were clad, so these were a blank slate. </p><p><br /></p><p>I collect many other things too, like telephone tokens.&nbsp; There are many reasons for all these collections but largely I just want to see what&#039;s out there, and no one can tell me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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