I collected pennies when I was a kid. I found one Indian head penny in change once and my son found one many years later in the dirt of a playground. Both worn pretty bad though. Kind of neat to see something different once in a while.

Cheers

A busy day for me yesterday:
Found 5 silver coins and 2 centenial pennies(1867-1967)

Hi Sgt.Joe,


I started collecting in the late 1950s. Indian Head pennies were easy. I just exchanged my newspaper money (I delivered them) for rolls of pennies at the bank and went through them. I got lots of pennies, nickels and dimes, though fewer quarters and half dollars.

Dad had some old Great Britain pennies and all from the 1700s that he had collected over there in WW II. Later I found that everybody had been collecting commemorative silver medallions through the 1800s, and ignoring stamps until the 1890s and coins until the 1930s. Result? - the silver medallions were all carefully saved and as a result were worth only a little more than silver bullion, which in turn was worth a lot less because of modern mining technology. Stamps from around the 1930s are mostly worth their value as postage now. Coins from the early 1950s on are mainly worth their (depreciating) metal value. Sigh . . . . . the only things that increase in value are those things considered worthless at the time that are not collected. Later, as they become rare, they MAY become collectors items.


Lawrence

All three of the above.One of my uncle worked at a bank, but mainly,I often have to pay for small expense and I carry only five dollar bill... I get alot of change.

Also when you search for cheques you will be supprised what you will find


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1999
Millenium Collection - September