Left overs from the past.

[jbruney]

I am so proud to have grown up when money had some real value to back it up...Now it is backed only by hot air and dreamy promises from those with their backs to our heritage.
I found a bag of this stuff tucked away long ago and it got me to thinking about things today..Pride and honor had meaning...America made history with apologies to none...Our young men sacrificed their lives by the thousands to save countries which appreciate nor deserve the freedoms they restored to them....etc.

[MicroPilot]

Nice find!

I really like the design of the Liberty dime. What does the reverse side look like?


lib·er·ty   [lib-er-tee] Show IPA
–noun,plural-ties.
1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
3. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
4. freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint: The prisoner soon regained his liberty.
5. permission granted to a sailor, esp. in the navy, to go ashore.
6. freedom or right to frequent or use a place: The visitors were given the liberty of the city.
7. unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or speech, or a form or instance of it: to take liberties.
8. a female figure personifying freedom from despotism.

[mitchstoner]

We have lost a lot...

There have been some positive changes too, but some of the most needed changes ended up going waaaaay too far. Like progressing from women being second class citizens to equals in the workplace, but then... A movement to preferential treatment and an entitlement attitude on the part of some, which unfortunately is often backed up by wacko courts and judges. Same for Blacks, Native Americans, and other minorities--needed change which went on to radicalism.

Don't get me started...

I do think there is hope, but possibly not in the form we "angry white males" want or expect. And for anyone here who is a minority but conservative and hardworking and believes in liberty without license, I include you with us awm's.

[jbruney]

Money had a look to it that was not aggravating.

[7.62guy]

nice find.

[Patria Povo]

Cool coins.

I miss the Australian 1 and 2 cent coins - we scrapped them 20 years ago.

[jbruney]

At the rate we're going we may have to scrap everything under a twenty in a few years, or start pushing wheelbarrows around to carry the stuff.
At one time, when I was in my late twenties, I had a hundred and a fifty from the teens that I had kept for a number of years....Got drunk and spent them in a Mexican whorehouse. At least I had managed to exchange them for something of real value. Good memories are worth more than gold anyway.