How long has it been…….

[billinohio]

Since you looked in your pocket change and saw an Indian Head Penny?
The wife picked me up for dinner and we went to the local Mexican place. The senorita brought my change and there, staring at me, was  a 1908 penny. At first, I thought it was Canadian…I knew it was “different”

Some kid got into Grandmothers collection!

[Erstwhile]

From my birth, Great Grandpa gave me silver dollars for event gifts; Birthdays, Christmas, etc.  They were stored in a heavy drawstring Bank bag and hung on a nail in a closet.  There may have been 2 or 3 dozen of them by the time Dad decided that they weren't being used profitably; took them to the Bank and exchanged them for a Savings (War) Bond.  So they could earn interest, he said; whatever that was.  I never said anything because it was too late anyway, but I was privately sick over it.  I missed my "stash".  I often wonder ... .  Many years later, SHE and me gathered those Bonds up with some bits and pieces of other assets and cashed them all. The bank had a double rupture trying to figure out how they could manage cashing out Government Bonds that old.