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My Wheat Cent Collection so far, sorry for the light blinding out a couple coins.

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  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some really nice looking coins in there. Looks like lots of fun being had.

  • Its like a grown up running around looking for Easter eggs!!

  • SiriusBlackSiriusBlack Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coastalpride85 said:
    Its like a grown up running around looking for Easter eggs!!

    I feel the same way! I’m having tons of fun filling my Lincoln album!

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  • HTubbsHTubbs Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭

    A lot of these have exceptional color, great work!

  • Thank you very much! I am getting into the very hard part...finding coins worthy of the book that I wont have to save up for until I am 214 yrs old!!

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,522 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice group.

  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coastalpride85 said:
    Thank you very much! I am getting into the very hard part...finding coins worthy of the book that I wont have to save up for until I am 214 yrs old!!

    How did you guess how old I am?

    Seriously, some great toners in there. Go get 'em!

    Kind regards,

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice, looks like a lot of fun :smile:

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like wheat cents. Looks like you have some nice ones. I know you didn't ask for advice BUT if you care about selling them off in the future, I would stay away from the blues and the pinks.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

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  • I appreciate the comment,. And I am always up for learning. Why stay away from the blue and pink?

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looking good.

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Brings back memories of when I was a kid and was filling an album like that by searching bags of cents from the parking meters in Racine Wisconsin. Probably 1960-62.

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  • Wow that sounds awesome! So much fun!! I occasionally order boxes of pennies from the bank and let my son pilfer through them, or might by an old OBW cent roll here and there. I have also enjoyed getting $25 bags of quarters from the mint and digging through them, I have had 2 so far that show a die break happening during the minting process for those bags, from no issue to nice long die cracks. It is quite the adventure!!

  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since you asked "Why stay away from the blue and pink" I will comment that I love your enthusiasm, but there appears to be more than one coin in those books that has manipulated surfaces.

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TomB said:
    Since you asked "Why stay away from the blue and pink" I will comment that I love your enthusiasm, but there appears to be more than one coin in those books that has manipulated surfaces.

    Yes, more than likely the colored ones have been exposed to chemicals or heat or both.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There have been many threads discussing blue and pink on copper coins. There are also many experts who disagree with one another...while both making valid arguments. If you are interested, do some searching and you will see what I am talking about! :)

  • Thank you very much for the information, I see what you are talking about with the colors.

  • CaptMorgansCaptMorgans Posts: 102 ✭✭✭

    Love that 1910-S. Gorgeous color the way that aged.

  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glad to see your checking for varieties.

    WS

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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like them.
    However, you will lose some of your reds in the album.
    Buy slabbed for protection.

    Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.
  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,939 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kinda like the 1920

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  • Several of those reds were bought in slabs, broke em out and stuck em in the book. Probably not the best idea in the world.

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some folks like raw coins. I could collect both raw and slabbed and have fun. Either way works, keep them dry and you'll be ok.

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coastalpride85 said:
    Several of those reds were bought in slabs, broke em out and stuck em in the book. Probably not the best idea in the world.

    Not the worst idea either-it is nice to fill an album.

    Thanks for sharing!

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i like the looks of that 1947 cent

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