1930's coin question

[Johnny Cache]

I find many coins from before and after the "dirty thirties", but not many from during the 1930's. Does anyone else have the same thing happen to them? Maybe people were more careful with their money during that decade. Maybe less coins were minted then? Any thoughts?

 

[dabbie1]

the 1930s was the first great depression,people lost everything in the stock market, they were jumping out of sky scraper windows to kill themselves.My mother washed floors and ate onion sandwiches to survived.I always listened to her when she said save all the gold and silver you can for the next great depression.I have alot of gold and silver coin and bullion cause the next time is now! paper money will not be worth a dime. save precious metal now. It wont be long!!!!!! HH Wayne

 

[1ringedingy]

The same is going to apply to firearms. When the nuts collect all of the firearms, they will be worth a fortune

 

[John LA]

There was a good bit of silver in the ground in the 1970's but not much of it was from the 1930s. I remember onion sandwiches but I preferred mustard sandwiches. I guess it was good to have a choice.

 

[Johnny Cache]

Lol, thanks for the response but...I'm confused about the sandwiches.

 

[Johnny Cache]

The same is going to apply to firearms. When the nuts collect all of the firearms, they will be worth a fortune

I hope the people who collect firearms aren't nuts lol.

 

[TerraDigger]

The sandwhiches refer to being so poor, that one could not afford meat. And I also prefer the onion over the mustard/catsup sandwhich.

 

[TerraDigger]

The sandwiches refer to being so poor, that one could not afford meat. And I also prefer the onion over the mustard/catsup sandwhich. A onion sandwich is actually rather tasty. And really good if you have some Spam to go with it.

 

[quarterhorse]

My father in law went into the coal mines at 11 years old....he got lard "samwitch's" SAMITCH in his dinner bucket....and was glad to have it too!

My only run in with an onion sandwhich SAMITCH was on a hunt at Kuujjuaq.........Peanut Butter and ukenion sandwhich SAMITCH on bannock.... it actually wasn't too bad once I shucked the onion..........

HH
QH

 

[INCH]

It's called SAMITCH, not samwitch or sanwitch. your all a bunch of losers who cant afford meat.

 

[Johnny Cache]

Sorry I didn't catch on to the sandwich thing, but now it makes sense. I think I would be extravagant and request a mustard AND onion sandwich I guess the folks in the 30's didn't have much "spare change" to lose. I just wish I could dig up more 1930's silver!!!

 

[1ringedingy]

My grandfather was so poor, that he painted his feet black and laced his toes!

 

[dufus]

beings how i am an english major in backwoods, country english lanuage,, i believe the proper pronounciation of the city-fied word ''sandwich'' is SAMMICH. as in,, ''how 'bout fixing me a baloney sammich, sweetcheeks''. [ these english majors on the motorcycle,, and believe it or not,, firearm forums,, go spastic reading my spelling and punctuation-------- i got out of a rural ms country school in 1962, and no one around here puts much stock in ''speaking proper english''. ]

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I believe the Great Depression is the reason there's no 1931 quarter, no 1930-1932 half dollars, and no 1929-1934 silver dollars. A 1931S wheatback starts at $100, so they weren't making many coins during this time, because the demand wasn't there.

Apparently they weren't printing money to solve the worlds problems like they do these days

BTW you guys are doing all the sammiches wrong....fried tomatoes are far better then raw onions

 

[ridgerunner]

Yes, fried green tomatos between two slices of bread is real good eatin whatever you call it.

 

[quarterhorse]

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