What I like are nickels. (Little things amuse little minds.) Nickel is a very tough metal as currencies go, and it's not at all uncommon to find coins in circulation from forty, sixty years ago! For a while, I was finding 1964 nickels with fair regularity. I have a 1957 one here - handed to me in my change. That's a tough coin. None other last that long.
And I love the Bicentennial quarter. Like “The Woodrow Wilson Dime,” each one seems like a link to home.
A week or so ago, my change at a Walgreens included three pennies -- all 1940's wheatbacks!! My reaction was, oh, that's too bad, someone's collection got stolen by a fool. (I date all my pennies, selecting out the 1973's for Minneapolis in '73 Post-Supporting Memberships.)
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What I like are nickels. (Little things amuse little minds.) Nickel is a very tough metal as currencies go, and it's not at all uncommon to find coins in circulation from forty, sixty years ago! For a while, I was finding 1964 nickels with fair regularity. I have a 1957 one here - handed to me in my change. That's a tough coin. None other last that long.
And I love the Bicentennial quarter. Like “The Woodrow Wilson Dime,” each one seems like a link to home.
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(I date all my pennies, selecting out the 1973's for Minneapolis in '73 Post-Supporting Memberships.)
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