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Lifetime of Searching Rolls Proves Fruitful

Like a lot of us older collectors like myself at the age of 75, I got started looking for, at and collecting coins back in the early days of the 1950s from change and going through rolls of coins.

When I was a kid, I would walk about six miles round-trip to my local bank on Saturday with the money I had made doing odd jobs. Sometimes I would have as much as $10 or more to get rolls of coins. I would start with cents then turn them in for nickels,

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