What does everyone do with their coins they find?

coinnut86

Do you put them in an album, keep them seperate from your bought coins? what do you do with them?

lordmarcovan

I keep them, in their own album, with a record of the dates and places they were found.

After the first year or so, I stopped recording the Wheat cents and non-silver Jefferson nickels and post-1950 world coins and tokens for the most part, since they outgrew my album and now fill most of a quart jar. All other older coins I do still keep in the album, though.

I wish I had kept better records of my relics and non-coin finds in this way. I can tell you the exact day and place I dug such-and-such a coin, ten or twelve years ago, but with the other stuff, it's a bit more vague; sometimes I can remember the site, but not always.

It might have been interesting if I had kept running tallies of all the face-value coins I had dug over the years, too, but I only recorded the "keepers".

Here is what I do with my dug coins:

1. The main album: coins in flips, labeled with date and location found, sometimes with other notes.

2. The secondary collection: blue Whitman Lincoln cent folders where I keep my dug Wheatie collection.

3. The "Wheatie and Token Jar", where duplicate Wheaties, early nonsilver Jeffersons, modern foreign coins, and obviously modern tokens end up.

The nice thing about keeping records and/or albums is that you can enter a friendly competition with yourself. You can note the passing of certain milestones, like "I found my first Seated half dime today" or "I set my oldest date back" or "this is my fiftieth dug Mercury dime". Even a fairly mundane find like a common Wheat cent can be fun if it fills a hole in your all-dug collection. (For example, "Oh, cool, I didn't have a 1949-D in the folder.")

HKnJ

I kind of have a similar way to LM's

+ Silver, IHC, and Buffs and before: To the folder in flips.
+ Wheaties: To Whitman folders
+Clads: To clad jar

loditom

Most of nicer dug coin's go into flip's and the more modern silver or really damaged go in baggie's and stored away.Some also go into my display's I make.
All the wheatie's I find get cleaned up and thrown into a tin with the rest.
I did get one of the coin holder book's for my merc dime's and have started filling it with my dug merc's.HH,Tom

Dockwalliper

The couple that I've dug that were not in my main collection went there. The rest are in tubes but I do have a record of all my silver finds and clad totals for each year. The clad gets tumbled, rolled and spent on the main collection.

pocketpiececommems

I have all of the clad sorted into plastic jars. I havn't spent any of my finds. All of the finds from One Room Schools go into a seperate display case for each school(this includes marbles and other visual finds). Other silver and wheats also have a plastic peanut butter jar that they go into. Sterling Silver has it's own container and gold goes onto a gold necklace that I found.

IndianHeadMan

They are all id's by location found. They are stored with all objects found at a particular site

millennium

I put the copper, silver and gold keepers' in plastic 2x2 holders. The common date silver and copper, I keep in plastic bags. I keep records of the best finds, and try to post them here....


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DUBBA

all my clad gets tumbled and then converted to cash at the banks free coin machine.....from there most of it goes in my sons piggy bank......the pennies go into a bucket, i'll deal with them later.............my wheats go into these little plastic tube holders.....silver goes into those little folder holders and are marked with the date of the coin, type, date found, location, and hunting partners......some day when i'm old and crusty i'll thumb through them for kicks......yes! my wife does think i'm crazy. she has said things like " all that work for a dime.. i'll give you a quarter to stay home and help with the cleaning"......good luck!

KeithinMD

For the keepers, they go into flips with details of that outing.

As for the clad, after getting a good bunch, I drop it off at my bank's coin machine. About a month ago, I stopped by the bank right as it was opening and was going to make a coin deposit. A homeless man bet me to the coin machine. The homeless guy put about $2 to $3 dollars of change into the machine he had found walking the streets. One of the tellers looked at the homeless guy and rolled her eyes and smirked at me. When the homeless guy left, the teller told me she makes him use the coin machine "because no one wants that dirty street money." Then I looked at my detecting coin money and thought "what is she going to think of my deposit?" I do not have a tumbler, so I do the best I can with a plastic jar filled with coin and water and rapid shaking. So I proceed to feed the machine coin. Within seconds the machine shuts down and begins to beep. The beep tells the teller that assistance is needed with the machine. When she gets over and sees what was in the machine, I could barely hold back my laughter. I had about $80 in detecting change in the machine. The teller with a bit of attitude says "we can't take that". I felt bad for the homeless guy, did not like the attitude of the teller and thought about closing my account. I have learned that the fine dust on coins can cause the coin machines to jam. I still have the detecting change today and still have an account at that bank too.

DUBBA

hey keith....time to invest in a tumbler!

coinnut86

<< <i>For the keepers, they go into flips with details of that outing.

As for the clad, after getting a good bunch, I drop it off at my bank's coin machine. About a month ago, I stopped by the bank right as it was opening and was going to make a coin deposit. A homeless man bet me to the coin machine. The homeless guy put about $2 to $3 dollars of change into the machine he had found walking the streets. One of the tellers looked at the homeless guy and rolled her eyes and smirked at me. When the homeless guy left, the teller told me she makes him use the coin machine "because no one wants that dirty street money." Then I looked at my detecting coin money and thought "what is she going to think of my deposit?" I do not have a tumbler, so I do the best I can with a plastic jar filled with coin and water and rapid shaking. So I proceed to feed the machine coin. Within seconds the machine shuts down and begins to beep. The beep tells the teller that assistance is needed with the machine. When she gets over and sees what was in the machine, I could barely hold back my laughter. I had about $80 in detecting change in the machine. The teller with a bit of attitude says "we can't take that". I felt bad for the homeless guy, did not like the attitude of the teller and thought about closing my account. I have learned that the fine dust on coins can cause the coin machines to jam. I still have the detecting change today and still have an account at that bank too. >>





Pardon me for laughing but that's kinda funny.

Why not just wash them up real good, old toothbrush and all?
And a question for everyone... when you say tumbler, do you mean like a rock tumbler? If so do you just use sand or something? (I have no idea, I don't have a detector or a tumbler)

KeithinMD

<< <i>hey keith....time to invest in a tumbler! >>



I think so too. The plastic jug, water and coin shaking does provide some exercise.

GaCoinGuy

<< <i> I put the copper, silver and gold keepers' in plastic 2x2 holders. >>






Show-off



I've seen LordMs main album............some incredible finds in there.

millennium

<< <i>I've seen LordMs main album............some incredible finds in there. >>




Yea......I sure wish I had been more diligent in recording each of my finds...I can still remember where most of them were though, it's funny. Do you guys find that too? Almost every significant find, I can remember the exact spot and conditions....the more common stuff is lost forever in my head....

DUBBA

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Pardon me for laughing but that's kinda funny.

Why not just wash them up real good, old toothbrush and all?
And a question for everyone... when you say tumbler, do you mean like a rock tumbler? If so do you just use sand or something? (I have no idea, I don't have a detector or a tumbler) >>



yeah a coin tumbler....just add coins, sand, water, and a little bit of dish soap......works great!....save the toothbrush for your teeth!

goldrush00013

<< <i>Yea......I sure wish I had been more diligent in recording each of my finds...I can still remember where most of them were though, it's funny. Do you guys find that too? Almost every significant find, I can remember the exact spot and conditions....the more common stuff is lost forever in my head... >>



Absolutely...especially when collecting surface found arrowheads. I now catalog every find.

demodigger

when i first started i put every old coin and token in those flips and placed in a binder. had one for US coins and another for tokens. i used to write the location on the reverse side of the flips.

after awhile, the common coins started to build up. i've filled several wheatie, nickel and dime folders. have almost a complete indian cent folder, just missing 1877 and 08s,09s.

creating my own website, helps me remember where it all came from. i pay a small annual fee for my own domain name.

everything goes into a safe now. all folders and flips. i personally know some people who have had they're finds stolen right out they're homes.