Two months ago, one of our friends brought us a coin collection for us to figure out the approximate value of it. Our friend and her three siblings had inherited the collection after their mother passed away. The coin collection had several amazing coins! There were large cents, a 40% silver proof Eisenhower dollar, shield nickels, a half dime, silver dollars, an uncirculated Indian Head Cent (this was in packaging from F.W. Woolworths for less than a dollar!!), a �bent silver 1 Real coin from the 1750's, A Carson City Morgan Dollar, �a couple of lettered edge capped bust half dollars and many other interesting coins. After we looked at the coin collection, we told her the approximate retail value.

Our local coin show was held last month.� They have the coin show twice a year.� I like the coin shows because I can help at the kids table, show an exhibit, buy coins, and say hello to the dealers.� We helped set up tables the night before the show started. In the morning of the show, we went and quickly set up our exhibits. Then we went and enjoyed a hike with our grandparents that were visiting us. After the hike we went home, had lunch, and dropped them off at the airport. After we dropped them off, we went back to the coin show. I walked around browsing the dealers' cases and saw several interesting coins. I also sold several of my coins that I did not want in my collection anymore. About half an hour later I was still browsing and looking for the first thing I wanted to purchase that day when I came across a dealer that had several large cents. Because I collect large cents, I quickly got interested and looked through the dealer's box. Next to the other coins there was a 1795 S-78 (Sheldon-78) large cent in the grade AG-3 that I quickly noticed. It caught my eye! Not having that date of large cent in my album I asked the dealer how much it cost. After looking at it he said that it cost more money than I brought with me to the show.� I had my dad drive me home to pick up more money. After I went back to the coin show I went back to that dealers table and bought the large cent then I wandered around and bought several other large cents that I needed for my collection.

�Because I am too young to be employed by a business I have to find other ways to earn money instead of working at a job. I want to work but the child labor laws keep me from working. I have found other ways to earn money to add to my coin collection. The top ways I get money for coins include recycling metal, yardwork, and gifts for Christmas or my birthday. I will talk about each of these ways below, and include why I like them.

Yesterday I was having a hard time.� I had gone to the library with my mom and sister, but while we were there somebody was not nice to me and it left me feeling misunderstood and sad.� When I got home, I was still feeling a little melancholy.� My dad offered to take me to the bank to get some coin rolls, since I like to look through them to find new coins.� I thought going to the bank might help me feel better, so I put on my shoes and climbed into the car to go for a ride.� When we go to the bank, I always check the change machine to see if anyone has dropped any coins. Sometimes people bring a handful of coins to turn in at the change machine and sometimes people bring a bucketful of coins to put through it.� Whenever people put change in the change machine the change machine sorts and counts the change then it gives the person who had the coins a receipt to get cash from the tellers. Sometimes coins get dropped because people are in a hurry. While looking around the coin machine, I found 64 cents of change that someone had dropped. None of the coins were in the feed slot, but a few were in the coin return, and most of the coins were on the ground.� Among the 64 cents there was a 1998 Lincoln cent that I was 90% sure was a wide AM variety. The coin was almost black and caked with dirt.� I wasn't quite sure because the coin was so dirty that it was hard to see the details.� When we got home from the bank, I looked at the cent more closely and it was a wide AM! Unfortunately, the coin was not in good shape, but it is always fun to find a variety.� I felt happy and lucky that I found it!�

In 1936 the San Francisco Mint minted a commemorative coin to commemorate the opening of San Francisco’s Oakland Bay bridge.