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 Posted - 06/18/2009 : 21:56:34
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I just got happy to find some "old" pennies then it hit me the were made after I was born. This sux.
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fb101
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USA
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Posted - 06/18/2009 : 22:02:57
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Welcome.
There are quite a few here that can relate to that.
I was born in the silver age. |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2009 : 22:03:59
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Originally posted by coachg
I just got happy to find some "old" pennies then it hit me the were made after I was born. This sux.
If it makes you feel any better I find coins from my birth year all the time...1988  |
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Neckro
1000+ Penny Miser Member
Saudi Arabia
2080 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2009 : 22:07:30
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| Haha, long time ago. |
Trolling is an art. |
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natsb88
Administrator
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2009 : 22:35:46
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| Even HR is older than me |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2009 : 22:55:37
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| Pennies older than me always make me happy.. they are all wheats! |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2009 : 07:17:08
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| Same here. |
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aaron239
Penny Collector Member
USA
260 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2009 : 07:55:38
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| I was born at about the same exact time they switched to zincers. Late 1982 |
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Market Harmony
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1274 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2009 : 11:20:39
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I was born in the Copper Age
welcome coach |
goto the new and improved realcent: http://realcent.org |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2009 : 12:13:28
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I guess I'm the old one here. I was born in the year they put Roosevelt on a silver dime. It will take a Mercury dime to be older than me.
I truly grew up in the Silver Age, spending silver coins because that's all there was to spend. |
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Edited by - Country on 06/19/2009 12:25:18 |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2009 : 20:40:31
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Originally posted by Country
I guess I'm the old one here. I was born in the year they put Roosevelt on a silver dime. It will take a Mercury dime to be older than me.
I truly grew up in the Silver Age, spending silver coins because that's all there was to spend.
Gosh...memories! Just thinking about this topic I remembered getting birthday cards when I was very young that had places for one dime for each year. What I wouldn't give to have those dimes and even those cards now!!!
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Corsair
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 06/22/2009 : 16:19:56
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| Just checking some highlights of my birth-year on Wikipedia...Freddie Mercury's tribute concert, Jay Leno becomes the host of The Tonight Show, Dan Qualye fails to spell "potato," Brett Favre starts for the Green Bay Packers and Pope John Paul II apologizes to Galileo (a few years short, eh?). Not bad for 1992. |
So long, Realcent 1. Come visit us at Realcent.org! |
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Gr33nday43
New Member
Uzbekistan
10 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2009 : 16:24:51
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The WTO was founded in the year I was born...
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 13:32:50
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Most of the copper cents I find are younger than I am, but I do find some older.
I haven't ever looked at my age in that way before. The Mint was still making silver change when I was born, but it was a collectors item before I could understand what is was.
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 14:15:56
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Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success
First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (price $395)
Digital Watches are introduced
The Dow Jones closes above 1000 for the first time in history
The Year.....1972 |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 16:48:09
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Originally posted by slickeast
Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success
Still got my Atari, plug in games, plug in Basic and Assembly Language, and peripherals. You had a TV adapter to connect the Atari to a spare TV to use as a monitor. I think it had a whole 64MB of memory on the board.
That was in the good old days when you had to optimize every cell of memory in your computer program. |
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2009 : 13:00:04
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Originally posted by Country
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Originally posted by slickeast
Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success
Still got my Atari, plug in games, plug in Basic and Assembly Language, and peripherals. You had a TV adapter to connect the Atari to a spare TV to use as a monitor. I think it had a whole 64MB of memory on the board.
That was in the good old days when you had to optimize every cell of memory in your computer program.
I may be wrong, but didn't NASA land the first men on the moon with the help of a slide rule?
I know in college, even back in 1976/1977, I was doing data entry for the college's business office and it was via key punch cards.
That was getting close to the time that silver hit its record high--I think (???). Too bad I didn't know about coins and silver back then to have been part of that. |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2009 : 13:26:03
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Originally posted by PreservingThePast
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Originally posted by Country
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Originally posted by slickeast
Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success
Still got my Atari, plug in games, plug in Basic and Assembly Language, and peripherals. You had a TV adapter to connect the Atari to a spare TV to use as a monitor. I think it had a whole 64MB of memory on the board.
That was in the good old days when you had to optimize every cell of memory in your computer program.
I may be wrong, but didn't NASA land the first men on the moon with the help of a slide rule?
I know in college, even back in 1976/1977, I was doing data entry for the college's business office and it was via key punch cards.
That was getting close to the time that silver hit its record high--I think (???). Too bad I didn't know about coins and silver back then to have been part of that.
Remember how you made a patch in the early-1970's? When you developed computer programs, you put your source code onto punch cards. Then, you ran the punch cards into a reader/compiler system which gave you object code in the form of more punch cards. Then, your card reader would input the object code punch cards into the system to run your computer program. You carried and stored computer programs in big boxes of object code punch cards.
Instead of getting a recompile when you had to make a small computer program change, you could take one or more of the hanging chads and tape it back onto the card(s). That was called a PATCH.
The peak of silver was in 1980. I was working in the computer field that year - it was my third computer job. I still have some coins I bought in 1979. I guess that's another story. |
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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sheba
Penny Pincher Member
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 22:39:42
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I was born the year US cents were made out of steel (but I refuse to act my age )
In the 50s I had a paper route in a small town (4,000 people). I can remember when I collected money from my customers ... Standing Liberty quarters, Merc dimes, Buff nickles, Walking Lib. halves and I can only 'imagine' what passd through my hands in wheat cents in those days. Wow! Can you imagine being able to go back in time and spend a couple days visiting banks in the 50s .
I remember too, that once a year, the grain elevator and feed mill (a very large Ralston Purina Mill) used to pay their employees in US Silver Dollars ... Morgans and Peace. What would we give to get paid just one time now in Morgan/Peace dollars!!!
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Dalsuh
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
757 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2009 : 02:08:29
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Originally posted by coachg
I just got happy to find some "old" pennies then it hit me the were made after I was born. This sux.
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