My, How Buttons Have Changed

In the fifties, my sister and I would play store; selling ice cream and candy just like our grandpaw. Granny let us delve into her spare button box where we found the coins for our special cash drawer. We sorted them all out by size and by color marking some as quarters, nickels, pennies or dimes. Imagination was the best of our playmates; we even had half-dollars, the rarest of finds. Last year we two met to go shopping just for fun; can you guess what awaited me and my sister? Brand-new buttons made of honest-to-God live coins. We found all the reg’lar ones, but no half-dollar. We giggled as we shopped, pretending like old times. Strangest thing we discovered along with this find - the penny buttons? no cheaper than the quarters. The cost of the buttons did not match with their kind!