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Just some coins...
- Thread starter heavymetal
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It all adds up! Thats not a bad little pile, especially if you didnt take long to get it. Where I buy 'em, that's battery money for a month. What a hobby - finding money! (among other things) Makes my arm throb just thinking about it. In fact Im gonna go feed the chickens athen go do some swinging myself.
Great that you got out.
Some of us are snowed in. Thanks for posting and keeping the spirit alive!
Some of us are snowed in. Thanks for posting and keeping the spirit alive!Earl fm Pa.
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These coins, instead of laying buryed will again travel along making their rounds. Ever wonder whose pockets these coins we find will end up visiting ?
... or whose pockets theyve been in? The average age of the coins in your pocket is 10 years old. Try it. Collect up a pocketful and then average up the age. Close aint it?
I suspect this was as true 100 years ago as it is today. And finds support this. So don't you wonder: "Just who held these coins before me?"
I suspect this was as true 100 years ago as it is today. And finds support this. So don't you wonder: "Just who held these coins before me?"
Uncle Willy
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The thing is, back in the old days few people had folding money and most commerce was conducted with coins. People carried their coins in a coin purse like we carry paper money in a wallet. You must remember that just twenty five cents bought a whole lot of stuff in those days.
When I was a kid two-bits would pay my way into the movies, buy a box of popcorn, a candy bar, and a coke. You could buy a dinner in a resturant for two-bits. Things were much different then and your money was real and worth something. Two-bits would buy nearly two gallons of gas or a pound of steak - five loaves of bread - five 16 ounce schooners of beer each with a free sandwich.
Bill
When I was a kid two-bits would pay my way into the movies, buy a box of popcorn, a candy bar, and a coke. You could buy a dinner in a resturant for two-bits. Things were much different then and your money was real and worth something. Two-bits would buy nearly two gallons of gas or a pound of steak - five loaves of bread - five 16 ounce schooners of beer each with a free sandwich.
Bill
)A toast, my friends, to the workhorse of our coinage, the quarter. 
Uncle Willy
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The beer and the sandwich cost a nickel. Also one could buy a bucket of beer and take home. I can remember in recent times getting free popcorn and peanuts with your beer but there ain't much that's free anymore.
When I worked in Vegas in the late fifties and early sixties ( before the corporate Yuppies took over ) a whole lot of stuff was free. We used to get a silver dollar and a beer free just for cashing our pay check at one joint. You could get breakfast ( ham-bacon-sausage, eggs, taters, toast, and coffee, for twenty nine cents all over town. A New York steak with all the trimmings and drink for $1.99. You could get all you could eat and drink at the smorgasbord at the Silver Slipper for $.98., and they had every kind of food imagineable. The Mafia was extremely generous. The corporate Yuppies are a bunch of chislers and charge outrageous prices.
And there was zero crime in Vegas then. The Mafia didn't allow it. It was a much nicer place then. Now it's a big Yuppie theme park.
Bill
When I worked in Vegas in the late fifties and early sixties ( before the corporate Yuppies took over ) a whole lot of stuff was free. We used to get a silver dollar and a beer free just for cashing our pay check at one joint. You could get breakfast ( ham-bacon-sausage, eggs, taters, toast, and coffee, for twenty nine cents all over town. A New York steak with all the trimmings and drink for $1.99. You could get all you could eat and drink at the smorgasbord at the Silver Slipper for $.98., and they had every kind of food imagineable. The Mafia was extremely generous. The corporate Yuppies are a bunch of chislers and charge outrageous prices.
And there was zero crime in Vegas then. The Mafia didn't allow it. It was a much nicer place then. Now it's a big Yuppie theme park.
Bill