I just bought my first Classic Commem!

[RockMyAmadeus]

 

Well, ok, I had a Booker T Washington 1946 D...but those are easy.

 

This is my first "real" one.

 

Yay!

[WinstonWare]

I think I like it. A little hard to tell from the image but I think it looks like a nice circ. original Stone Mountain.

[RockMyAmadeus]

It boggles my mind that these circulated at all. Wouldn't people notice? Or did they just not care, and 50 cents was 50 cents?

 

Proofs I can understand....but commems?

[mommam17]

Hi. You have to remember that the Great Depression came 4 years after the Stoneys were minted. People spent any money they had.

[Elbesaar]

My Grandfather use to pull early commems out

of his pocket change all the time in the early 1930's.

He was one of the very fortunate ones to have a well paying

secure job back then. He wasn't rich by any standards -

but he raised three kids and lived in a home with out a mortgage.

 

A Half Dollar back then was a lot of money for the ordinary man -

and the Hay-Days of the Roaring 20's came to a screeching halt;

people spent any coins they had laying around.

 

Having put together a set of 144 myself - each coin is extremely

interesting; it also is a wonderful way of learning about the country.

 

 

[TomB]

It looks like a scan of an unmessed with coin, which is good to see. (thumbs u

[sideways1-migration]

What kind of value does very good shape Stone Mountain coin have.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Hi. You have to remember that the Great Depression came 4 years after the Stoneys were minted. People spent any money they had.

 

I guess, even for stuff they'd paid a premium for...such a shame.

[RockMyAmadeus]

I've actually been collecting since I was 10 (1982), but this kind of stuff was essentially out of my reach until after college. Then, I decided I wasn't quite getting the bang for my buck that I wanted, so I never really spent serious cash on anything. Some of the commems, of course, aren't obtainable at all for less than several hundred, if not over a thousand (Hawaii! Argh!)...I'd much rather have a nice solid run of G4 Seated halves for that kind of money. Quantity, rather than quality.

 

I'm a total bottom feeder, hole filler.

 

If I can fill a hole in my book, I'm happy.

 

Still...I may have awakened the beast! Ack!