What Modern Coin Would You Hoard?

Copper pennies as you can get them for face value. Otherwise, I stick with older coins

What about the governments planned devaluation of the dollar by 2% per year?
use this inflation calculator:
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
put it something like, 1,2, or 5 years. Then do 10 years. if your coin gains value, it has to overcome a minimum of 2% inflation a year. If you sit on 10 rolls of quarters for 10 years, that would be $100 but the "new" $100 would be about 122 dollars
In other words, your $100 face is now $82 face.

1965-69 halves, LMC: 1983DDO, 1972S small dates. And since you went ahead with the NIFCs I'll add 1992 to date silver proof quarters, dimes and halves. ASEs and all silver commens. And why not AGEs and APEs too then.

2009 Lincoln Commem cents.

Just thinkin'-
Just to keep your interests going on a daily basis,
How about extracting ANY commemorative coin from circulation?

I know!, I know!, most are only worth FV.

But how about dumping them in a bikkie barrel and saving a couple of hundred dollars face value? When the barrel is full, do a comparative population analysis on them, keep aside a couple of sets of those in best condition, and release the rest into circulation.

Not hard to do, ANY coin that looks unusual just gets thrown into the bikkie barrel.

Those released represent money to buy Christmas presents with.

Not only does that keep a bit of fun going into you collection, on a daily basis, but the whole family can join in, and perhaps you can initiate an interest in numismatics in your kids!

I'm a hoarder by nature. And coins are so small its so easy to hoard so many lol. I do like to pretend I'm not a hoarder though so I call it 'collecting' instead...... :D.

I "collect":

Ruined coins especially ones that look cool in the way they were ruined.


LIke I found a nickle recently that it looked like the top layer of both sides of the coin were stripped off in stripes. You could tell it was a nickle. But just barely.

I found a dime in a penny roll that looked like a penny!! Not a mule mind you but the dime was stained so badly on both sides with the same type of staining you see on say a dirty 1980 that it looked like a penny that was slightly too small.

I 'collect' State Quarters. I want to collect a full roll of each state and then when I fill a roll start sorting them by grade.

I 'collect' what I call 'proofish' circulation coins. Coins that have been in the wild but seem a little too good for their age. My 1941 I posted in the Modern US Grade forum is the latest and best. I've pulled 'proofish' canadian pennies, 1980's nickles. 1970's pennies, etc etc.

I 'collect' silver anything though I dont have anything yet.

I 'collect' anything not quarter/nickle/dime/penny though I havnt tried getting anything besides them from the bank. If I start to build up too much of a cache of something I might start spending it for fun. Depends on how easy they are to get at face value.

Thats about it I think.

Oh and then there's the wheat cents and the full copper pennies I forgot lol.

Always keep Coppers. They are still quite abundant. I do not think this will be the case in the next few years to come...