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Thread #128891 Message #2889173
Posted By: Bill D
18-Apr-10 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Coin Collecting: National Park Quarters
Subject: RE: BS: Coin Collecting: National Park Quarters
No Joe, I had to sell the expensive part of my collection many years ago. Besides the VDB, I had the best 1921-S penny anyone had ever seen...full wheatstraws. (I had paid $20 for it in 1959). I had the chance to buy a 1955-double-die-obverse for $75, but that was a weeks salary back then. I suppose the most interesting thing I kept was a mis-strike penny I found in a roll, which had popped out of the die and shows only a tiny area on one edge with a couple letters on an otherwise totally blank piece of copper. I have several Buffalo nickels, but nothing rare or in fine condition. I also found a 32-D quarter and one 39-D nickel. (I was born in Denver in 39... if my parents had gone down to the bank and bought rolls of nickles, they could have put me thru college and bought a house later)
Q- when I was collecting, we saw quite a few Mercury dimes, and one old man used to come into the store where I worked and buy/exchange many rolls of dime, looking for rare items.