by Know Common Cents » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:40 pm
Good to see so many silver success stories. I've bought into silver at various (low) levels, but am old enough to have bought in at face.
In the early 1960s, I mowed over a dozen lawns each week during the Summer and shoveled their snow in the Winter. For the mowing, I got $1.25 in coins or would discount to one silver dollar if they paid that way. Shoveling was a flat rate of $3.50 per week regardless of whether it snowed or not.
Had a lot of coins coming in. Course I had to spend some for expenses, but I still have many of the nice ones that came my way. We could still buy silver dollars at face from the bank, but a high percentage were either 1896 P or common Peace dollars. I saved one or two each week and still have 2 rolls of the nicer ones.
Yes. I've spent silver dollars for items. Most usually they were the ones like you see now on the APMEX web site classified as "worse than cull," but I'm happy to have been able to keep what I did.
"I don't know what I'm doin' but I'm sure havin' fun" Herman Munster
I've recently adopted the Groucho Marx philosophy for dealing with politics and other life challenges, "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" (Horse Feathers 1932)