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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 150849, member: 4552&quot;]I think I&#039;ve told this story before here but at my age, who can remember anything. I got started coin collecting when I was a kid because my Dad used to let me look through his change everyday. He knew I was fascinated by those shinny silvery new pennies that just came out so he purposely went out of his way to find as many as he could in perfect condition for me to find in his change. That started it with coins. Then other relatives heard about the great coin collecting kid and offered me strange looking things that looked like a cent but had a 2 or 3 on it so I naturally grabbed them also. Then we went to Missouri to visit&nbsp; an aunt and she handed me all colored plastic and metal coins that she said were worth only parts of a cent. They were called Missouri Tax Tokens and used to&nbsp; pay for things that were less than a cent. I still have the plastic Mills, 26 rolls of 1943 Steel Cents, lots of 2 and 3 cent peices that as a kid I just thought was the world. Ahhh if I only knew then what I know now. Just think the only thing for dimes was the Mercury and occationally a Liberty Head. Not long after that the government changed those really great dimes to ones with some guys picture on them named Roosevelt. Many Quarters were Standing Liberties and also and occational one with that lady&#039;s head on it. Those I did save and have today.&nbsp; Then Walking Liberty halves were everywhere but who could afford a coin worth that much? Not me. As I got older my Dad gave me an allowance all in Silver Dollars. Mostly all used to impress girls at an amusement park called Riverview. The girls were fun but I&#039;d really like to have all the coins back instead but that&#039;s an old man talking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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