Is There Any Point To Hoarding Not-So-Old US Coins?

I generally only save wheat cents and wartime nickels personally. The wheat cents go from 1909-1956 and the Wartime Nickels go from 1942-1945 if ya didn't know. The Wartime Nickels have silver content (I don't specifically remember how much) and the wheats are just interesting to me. All quarters, dimes, and half dollars minted before 1965 contain silver, but those aren't really worth collecting unless you collect silver coins, want to save the really nice ones for a small profit, or you're a silver hoarder. But in my personal opinion, there's a difference between hoarding and collecting, not to be blunt. But like Finn said, you can always sell hoards of different coins and make a pretty penny off the deal (pun intended).

I would keep them for now. I think the market is weak anyway. Wait a few years and I believe the market will be much better than it is right now.

When I first began collecting I remember going to a coin collector's store and I saw that they had a drawer filled with tubes of each denomination by year and mintmark. When somebody requested a coin, they would just got to the designated tube, fish one out, and sell it at a nice profit.

So that's what I've been doing for 40 years. Any nickel or penny before 1959 that I find in circulation gets nabbed and put into a tube with its brothers and sisters. Of course, my scheme to sell them one by one has not yet been hatched. But I enjoy having all those old coins and keeping them organized.

But after 1958, I don't keep them. Maybe it's because I was born in 1959 so that anything younger than that date seems not valuable to me.

Not searching at the moment, but did hold onto all pre 1960 nickels, copper cents(did dumps a lot of brown copper in 2012, 1000 face), canadian/world anything.... Better nickels in coin tubes or 2x2's, red copper in big glass jars, wheats in rolls brown copper in either bags or rolls. All Canadian in rolls.

I also keep all the copper cents (92.5%) I find. Silver quarters, and dimes.

WWII nickels are 35% silver which a lot of people are unaware of.

And then I also keep a few brand new coins that I find each year. Bright shiney perfect brand new quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. Because years from now one or two coins will become the key coins in each set for some reason or another. And having a high quality example can be worth a bit more than face value. 1983 Quarters for example in perfect condition are worth $12-25 just because they are harder to find in perfect condition.

I also save copper cents and pre-1960 nickels. They don't really take up much space at this point so I'm not too worried about it, or any value I may be losing due to inflation.

Very nice!

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