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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8218521, member: 19463&quot;]My &#039;common sense&#039; in the 1950&#039;s said that I should never pay more than face value for US coins.&nbsp; I collected from circulation and traded duplicates at a local coin store.&nbsp; At first, the money went to coins I failed to find (I still have most of them) but soon I discovered that ancients had no face value so I could pay whatever I saw fit.&nbsp; Then I stopped searching US and got a job (to fuel my coin hobby?).&nbsp; Unfortunately that job was suggested to me by my draft board and paid under $100 a month the first month I was in.&nbsp; Poverty and a new baby drove me to sell all but three of my ancient coins in 1974 but my mother took my US (at face).&nbsp; When she passed, I got them back. She did not want the ancients. Today, I am faced with the same dilemma.&nbsp; My only child has no interest in ancient coins.&nbsp; I was sandwiched between generations that do not care![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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