I sold newspapers at a paper stand and in the street when I was 12 and 13.. That would have been 1960. I grossed $70 to $100 a week in change, so I started collecting coins. At one time I had most of the Lincoln pennies, with the exception of the really rare ones, like the 1909 S and the copper 1943. I also had about 80% of the Indian Heads, most of the buffalo nickels and maybe half of the standing liberty quarters. I even had a half dozen shield nickels. Sole them all when I was in my late teens for going out money. Such is life. Paul On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:38 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: Ann Sanfedele > >> Now JOhn and I have lots of info :-) >> I only mentioned looking for "s' cause John did -- prior to his email I >> didn't know a thing about it... >> >> aside from thinking it would be cute to have all the states.. or that >> someone MIGHT wnat oe in the distant future, >> all I know about coins are what "wheaties" are and if I got a 1943 >> copper coin I could get a prety nice price for one. >> >> I have one steel coin from 1943 that I wrote a story about in grade >> school... thinking it was the unusual one.... think I >> I dentified with being out of step? you betcha > > I'm not really a coin collector, but I tend to latch on to any oddities that > pass through my hands, simply because they're fun. I still find occasional > wheat pennies and more rarely still run across a steel penny. > > When I was at Target, I was the go-to guy for odd money; the "A guest wants > to pay with this. Is it real money?" guy. > > "Sure. It's real, you just don't see them that often any more. I'll take that > one if you want me to, and give you this one in its place, then you won't > have to worry about it." 8^D > > Got a $5.00 US Treasury Note (just like a regular Federal Reserve Note except > that the serial number is red ink and it says U.S. Treasury instead of > Federal Reserve); several two dollar bills - bi-centennial and > non-bicentennial versions, even a $2.00 silver certificate once. > > A few other silver certificates, several silver dimes and an Indian Head > penny. Some Kennedy silver half dollars, an Eisenhower dollar or two and a > Peace dollar. > > Even got a "don't give a damn about a greenback dollar" Greenback Dollar. > > I was always up-front about it, "I don't know what it's worth, but you could > take that out to the coin guy at the flea market and he'd probably buy it > from you." > > It's interesting how quickly the value piles up if you just make a decision > not to spend any of the State Quarters (or DC/Territory and the new America > the Beautiful series) when they're in your change. > > I'd come home with 2 - 5 quarters every day, which is $200 - $400 a year even > if none of them is ever worth more than face value. > > A couple of them *are* worth more than face value. I've run across some error > quarters. Nothing major, just obstructed die or rotated die sufficient that > it's worth anywhere from $0.50 - $10.00. > > And, I'll take a silver quarter as change any time someone wants to give me > one. Won't squawk about it one bit either. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
