1961 Twilight Zone - Standing Liberty Quarter
Vector
Penny for Your Thoughts', the main character (played by Dick York)
throws a quarter into a coin box to pay for a newspaper. In a close
up of the coin box I see a Standing Liberty Quarter, a Walking Liberty
Half and a Buffalo Nickel. In 1961, I was too young to have any
interest in circulating coinage. I'll have to assume these coins were
still common in circulation through 1961 since their appearance played
no significance in the plat of the show. I'm a little surprised by
the SLQ at that date though.
Wes Chormicle
In 1964, I worked in the lunch room at my junior high (La Cumbre Jr High
School, Santa Barbara, CA). I was a cashier and, as I recall, saw Buffalo
Nickels, Mercury Dimes, SLQ, and WL half dollars on a very regular basis.
....If I only knew then what I know now.....
Chuck Miller
Standing Liberty's, Peace and Morgan Dollars, Mercury Dimes and Buffalo
Nickels. At that time anything older than 1940 I set aside with no
consideration for quality. Now I wonder why I saved some of those coins.
Almost all were common date coins and I spent Silver Dollars like there
would be no end.
If I would have saved the Silver Dollars rather than making some mutual fund
investments I would have much further ahead today! I think I just about
broke even on those mutual funds.
If only we could turn the clock back.......
Brian Blackwell
"Wes Chormicle" <wchor...@sprynet.com> wrote in message
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I remember, in the early '60s, getting Barber coins and other than checking
for dates I didn't already have they were nothing special, just spending
money.
Harv
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Ahh yes, he tosses in the coin and it lands standing on its rim, and
suddenly he can read peoples' minds.
I was 11 in 1961 and if I disremember correctly, later date WLHs were not
unusual in change, although Franklins were the norm. SLQs, umm.. can't
really remember getting many if any. Mercury dimes and Buffalo nickels,
though, were pretty common. I don't remember EVER getting any Barber dimes,
quarters, or halves in change, and the three low grade VG-F-ish examples in
my huge Capitol Plastics 20th century type set holder that I put together in
the late1970s (because the newest coin in it is a 1979 SBA..) .. were all
inexpensive purchases at a local hobby shop or the coin department of a
ritzy department store my folks took us to as a kid every now and then,
Robinsons on Coloradio Blvd., in Pasadena, CA. Yes, they actually had a coin
and stamp department in all their stores. I still have a couple of their
brochures and flyers from the 1960s, of which they had stacks on the
counters. I remember those departments were staffed by very courteous and
very well-dressed "older" gents in very upscale, business-like attire. Ahh..
memories.. it was a sad day when we went there once and the coin an stamp
department was gone, never to return again.
Harv
Vector
>Ahh yes, he tosses in the coin and it lands standing on its rim, and
>suddenly he can read peoples' minds.
>
Yep, that's the one.
>I was 11 in 1961 and if I disremember correctly, later date WLHs were not
>unusual in change, although Franklins were the norm. SLQs, umm.. can't
>really remember getting many if any.
In early 1961 I had just turned 7. My first awareness of coins was
seeing at a department store silver coins suspended in acrylic blocks
... that was 1963. But, I guess my very first interest in collecting
was in 1964. I read in the 'Weekly Reader' (4th grade) about the soon
to be released 'sandwich coins' to replace silver coinage. I managed
to save up (hoard) several dollars' worth of them, intending to keep
them until they were worth something someday. Not long after that,
they precious hoard was liberated from me by my juvenile deliquent
older brother. Among the coins I had accumulated were Franklin
Halfs, Roosevelt Dimes, Washington Quarters and somehow, a single
Peace Dollar. I can't recall how I came across the dollar.
I never saw a SLQ in circulation.
Bruce Remick
"Chuck Miller" <ckmi...@eotnet.net> wrote in message
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I was a kid in the 1940's and I remember all the coins mentioned were pretty
common, especially of course the WL halves. Barbers were mostly pretty worn and
I didn't pay much attention to the SLQ's because most of the dates on them were
barely readable. Same with the Buffalo nickels. I didn't become interested in
actually collecting coins until the early 1950's. But with a 25-50˘ weekly
allowance, even a shiny AU Walker would have been beyond my means to put away,
what with coins competing with comics and gum cards for my collecting budget.
Kool Aid had just come out and setting up a couple jugs of that on a table by
the side of the road might often net another quarter or two at 5˘ a glass, even
though you could still get a glass of Coke for the same price at the corner drug
store fountain.
Bruce
Vector
>My first awareness of coins was
>seeing at a department store silver coins suspended in acrylic blocks
>... that was 1963.
Responding to my own post here. In thinking about those desktop
decorations, I wonder if anyone here recalls them. Some must've been
6 to 8 inch cubes, containing several dozen silver coins of various
denominations. I wonder how they've faired through the decades. I
haven't seen anything like them in a couple generations.
Would an item like that be numismatically valuable? I mean, not only
were the coins common date ... but surely unsalvageable. But, if the
plastic didn't crack or yellow with age they might still be
interesting.
Wes Chormicle
I sold a very nice, easy MS66 1881 S Morgan Dollar to one of our RCC'ers
here a couple of years ago. Only problem, it was in a block of acrylic.....
Forever entombed. Bill, you still got it?
LRC-Tom
pocket change daily and annoying anyone else who came around. And,
yes, all of the types you mention were commonly circulating then.
I had filled out more than half of the Buffalo set from circulation,
and had a fair number of full-horn examples of the common dates. SLQs
were common, but the only ones with dates that you'd see were the
1925-1930 dates (the date was more well-protected from 1925-on). I
don't think I ever found an SLQ pre-1925 with a readable date, but
there were a lot of dateless ones circulating.
Walkers were common also, including the older ones: I had a couple
1917s that I was thrilled with, even though they were only AG-G. I
couldn't afford to work on the set, though: 50 cents was a lot of
money!
..Tom
p.s. now if Dick York was smart, he would have had Jeannie wiggle
her nose and make a few rolls of S-VDBs appear for him...but that was a
different TV show....
Michael Benveniste
> p.s. now if Dick York was smart, he would have had Jeannie wiggle
> her nose and make a few rolls of S-VDBs appear for him...but that was a
> different TV show....
Do you mean Samantha or did Dick York appear as a guest
on "I Dream of Jeannie?"
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>
> I sold a very nice, easy MS66 1881 S Morgan Dollar to one of our RCC'ers
> here a couple of years ago. Only problem, it was in a block of
> acrylic..... Forever entombed. Bill, you still got it?
>
Yes and no;
http://showcase.netins.net/web/billsdqandcoins/plasticized.JPG
It is an "S" mint, though.
Bill
Ed Hendricks
> p.s. now if Dick York was smart, he would have had Jeannie wiggle
> her nose and make a few rolls of S-VDBs appear for him...but that was
> a different TV show....
Jeannie didn't nose-wiggle. Samantha nose-wiggled. Jeannie crossed her
arms and nodded sharply. :-)
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Scott Stevenson
A couple of years ago, I was in (I think) Calgary, and there was a
downtown department store that had a coin department. I'd heard about
things like it several times in r.c.c., and it was nice to actually
see it in action.
take care,
Scott
Merlin Dorfman
During the early 60s I put together a nearly complete collection
of Walking Liberty halves from circulation--buying rolls of half
dollars at the bank and going through them. I only had to buy half a
dozen or so from the coin shop.
Of course the condition of the coins left something to be
desired...
Michael G. Koerner
Didn't the Marshall Field's State St Chicago store have a stamps and coins
department until fairly recently?
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Bruce Remick
"Merlin Dorfman" <dor...@green.rahul.net> wrote in message
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Typical of most of our first collecting efforts. We didn't care that much
about condition. It was the excitement of filling those last few holes in the
album that brought hobby satisfaction. In my case, that first Lincoln
collection has stayed just like is was when I finished it over 40 years ago. I
began another one later on when I could afford to raise my condition standards a
bit.
Bruce
Mr. Jaggers
"Michael G. Koerner" <mgk...@dataex.com> wrote in message
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Marshall Fields had a store in Chicago until fairly recently. Alas, it is
no more. But, yes, it did have a S&C department, as did rival Carson,
Pirie, Scott. The last time I visited either of those I don't remember
being very impressed by their offerings.
Mr. Jaggers
LRC-Tom
>
>
> Jeannie didn't nose-wiggle. Samantha nose-wiggled. Jeannie crossed her
> arms and nodded sharply. :-)
>
> --
> ~
> Ed Hendricks
Yep, I meant Samantha. Those old shows kinda blend together in my
memory...