Is it worth saving....circulation finds??? Your opinions on value

tsacch

I searched through about $100 of misc change my wife and kids accumulated over the last few months.....got 6 wheaties, a few state quarters I needed for the map, and a couple pre 1960 Jefferson nickles........however I did find several high end AU 1964, through 1974 coins.....they look great but show minimal wear and still have most of their mint bloom.....

Are they worth saving? Is it worth it to just chuck them in a jar for "some day?" Or are they worth a penny like the rest of the junk pennies.....non copper that is.

Thanks,

tom

StrikeOutXXX

If they're AU, sounds like good coins to put in a Whitman album with your kids? Or put them in cardboard flips and sell them at a yard sale for 25 cents each.

Shamika

I'll admit to the habit of saving BU coinage from the 60's during the rare occasion that I find such coins in loose change. In truth, the coins are worth little more than face. But the idea that such coins avoided serious circulation while in the field has me thinking their worth rescueing.

cladking

Clad from before 1979 is worth saving in XF and better and nice specimens
all the way down to F can be worth saving. The toughest to find nice are the
'69, '70, '70-D, '71, '73, '73-D, '77-D and '78-D dimes. and all the '68 to '71-D,
'73, and '77 quarters, but in XF and better almost everything is worth keeping
except the '72-D and bicentennial quarters.

This era is loaded with some neat varieties and the higher grade coins are
actually more likely to be varieties. Some of these are very scarce or rare in
unc so you can have a pretty special coin.

Look for nice strikes from good dies.

The best bet is usually to start a set so you can see what's typical and what's
special.

mirabela

Absolutely, it's worth saving. It may not be worth more than face right now, but think about it -- how is it that we are able to *buy* XF and AU coinage from 100 and 200 years ago today? Somebody saved it out of circulation, for whatever reason, when it was ordinary and it cost no more than face to do so.

While I confess to utterly ignoring certain series, I do save nice coins out of circulation fairly often. I am sure they will continue to be worth only face for a long, long time, but so what? I'm a coin collector, and preserving nice coins is the very essence of the hobby. Just imagine what a hobby we would have if nobody did what you just did. Want a Barber half? Take your pic: MS62 or AG3. Any one of us who appreciates a nice lightly circ Bust, Seated, or Barber coin can thank someone who did what you just did.