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Does anyone else have stacks of coins you put away years ago that had "potential"
jessewvu
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I'm cleaning out my office and keep finding little plastic bags or random coins in holders that I put there for some important reason years ago... I guess I need to get my loop out again and try to figure out why I put them aside.
I was hit with the machine doubling bug years ago, I think i'm about to break my own heart!
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Yes, went into my safe today to put some "new" coins in and found there was too much clutter. Had to go through rolls and rolls put away as far back an 1958. Most are spenders, but did take a look through a roll of "handshake" nickels that was just begging to be searched....nope, spenders all of them. Soft strikes and plenty of dings. Hope the rest of the stash fares better. Should I open original rolls of 1958 cents? Nah....next year maybe.
bob
I have boxes of rolled Wheat cents, sorted by date and mint. From 1939 on, have basically 5 rolls of each, sitting sitting sitting
Here are a few.. I sure put away a lot of machine double dies.
The two i thought would make me rich:
1946
1936, can't tell if this matches the CPG or not... it's close
triple strike!!!
1971-D RDV-006
die crack by head on half dollar
random
The 46 walker is pretty cool, and definitely not machine doubling.
That WLH is not machine doubling..... You got something there...Cheers, RickO
Nice 1946 double die reverse FS-801
The ‘36 half is also a doubled die, but not the major variety listed in the CPG.
I have a coffee can full of gem BU 1992-D cents, I found them in the year of issue and tucked them away. Every once in a while I remember that I should search them for the wide -AM.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
Wheat pennies. Why? Also, pennies up to 1982. Is that the last year that they were copper? Anyway, I found a really neat thing to do with the Memorial cents. And little Hydrant "BABY JOEY" loves it; Here's what you do. Take some copper pennies and lay them down on concrete. A common ordinary driveway or back porch works just fine. A brick will also do. Then get out the propane torch. Lite the torch. Adjust the flame so that there is the best and darkest blue Isosceles triangle you can get at base of the flame. Right at the top of the torch. Then carefully touch the top of the blue Isosceles part of the flame to a penny. Almost instantly, that old dark penny is transformed into a small lustrous shining copper bead! Kids love it. So do some adults. Fun for the whole family! And the best part?........It beats taking all the kids out to the railroad tracks to do that FLAT PENNY thing that we used to do so long ago. That's old school. No more waiting around for the 5 o'clock West bound flyer. No more hiding in the bushes so the engineer won't see you and your friends and then report back to Union Pacific headquarters. BUSTED! And best of all no more having to lie to your mom about where and how you got all those flat pennies that she keeps finding in the bottom of the washing machine. AND........if one of the tykesters takes a notion to swallow one of the little shiney copper nodules.....a doctor visit isn't necessary. Not like back in the old days when we all had that urge to gulp down a round non- transformed penny. Just don't let grandma or the daughter-in-law find out. If they do find out, just tell them that it was all part of a SCIENCE EXPERIMENT that you were conducting for the benefit of the kids education. That should work. Besides, copper is a natural mineral and most likely a good dietary supplement. What harm could there be? Tell the ladies that. They'll most likely be impressed. Anyway......try it. You'll be hooked. Guaranteed!!!!
From 1999-2004 I used to buy lots of BU rolls of silver dimes, quarters, halves, and a few rolls of Morgan and Peace dollars.
I'd sort and put away the nicest third or half of them, then sell the rest as singles and groups over the next few years, which covered the cost.
Still have dozens of partial rolls of choice to gems and coins with die cracks and other anomalies.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
I have dozens and dozens of tubed coins marked "2nd look ."
Some snowy dreary days I take a couple rolls out, find a few goodies and a few "WTF" (too many scotches) coins in them and then I put them away again.
Then a few months later they multiply and there are more to search.
Oh well, I will not lack for things to do....after, of course, marking things off the wife's things-to-do-list.
(Notice that I said "marking things off" and not "actually doing" them.)
I pretty much have every BU roll of coins that have come my way since the mid 90's. I also went on a Jefferson Nickel craze around a decade or so ago and have several thousand rolls of circ + BU rolls thrown back...some are even better dates that will probably continue to depreciate in value until long after I'm not above ground!