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Message:: [QUOTE="Rono, post: 249084, member: 6492"]Hi Frank, Back in 3rd Grade our teacher started everyone collecting a year set of pennies.  This would have been in '55-56 or so as I was born in '48. Back then you could still find indian heads in bank rolls on a fairly regular basis.   I'm not much for having regrets, but I guess I do sort of regret that I didn't stay with collecting continuously all these years.  Sure, I kept my coins, but collected off and on thru the years.  Think if I'd just been buying a mint set and proof set all these years and ACTIVELY collecting. Where I DID make out like a bandit was in the mid-70's when I was running restaurants.  Went thru ALL the change and bought all the silver for face value.  Cha-Ching!  When I went back to school in the late 70's the Hunts were cranking the market and I was able to very nicely augment my GI Bill by selling junk silver. I may not have been a consistant collector over the years, but I've always been a weasel.  ;-) take care, rono Alas,[/QUOTE]