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to CCF. As you now know,do not clean the coins 
. Here is a link to a good token site 
Posted 06/23/2012 08:19 am
I can't remember the last time I stayed up til 2am. I didn't wait for the cup of coffee and the morning like I thought I would, I worked the coin last night. And no batch of cobbler elves came over night to help me. But that's ok, I really enjoyed separating them. Now to figure out what they are.
My mom collected 1976 quarters, which I never thought was a big deal. I'll even admit to taking some for the ice cream man. As far back as I can remember hearing a silver coin, my head would turn and I've collected those silver. I bought a dollar from 1900 from a dealer early on, but that's all. The rest has been found during my career of working on/around the teller line in a bank. When my mom's dad passed, I inherited a collection of silver and bicentennial, everything from wheat pennies to Eisenhowers, the coolest collection EVER.
Foreign coins have always been more of a novelty. Souvenirs someone brought back for the kids to play with. Those darn Canadian pennies are nightmare to a teller, we had to show our drawer short if we had one. I never saw myself being interested, til now. When I first opened the box and remembered the collection was given to me, I thought about the cash value. After coming here, for just a few hours, I know I wont sell these. It's been crazy fun to think about figuring them all out.
And, an added benefit nobody saw coming. The history and geography I will learn from this is fantastic!
enworb, I was confused why the same face was on so many different coins. There are pennies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong as well as "one quarter India". I have never in my life heard of a half penny either, so that was fun to find. And there is Ceylon. I couldn't read it last night, but with fresh eyes and more light I was able to see that.
Oh man, who saw this coming? haha
My mom collected 1976 quarters, which I never thought was a big deal. I'll even admit to taking some for the ice cream man. As far back as I can remember hearing a silver coin, my head would turn and I've collected those silver. I bought a dollar from 1900 from a dealer early on, but that's all. The rest has been found during my career of working on/around the teller line in a bank. When my mom's dad passed, I inherited a collection of silver and bicentennial, everything from wheat pennies to Eisenhowers, the coolest collection EVER.
Foreign coins have always been more of a novelty. Souvenirs someone brought back for the kids to play with. Those darn Canadian pennies are nightmare to a teller, we had to show our drawer short if we had one. I never saw myself being interested, til now. When I first opened the box and remembered the collection was given to me, I thought about the cash value. After coming here, for just a few hours, I know I wont sell these. It's been crazy fun to think about figuring them all out.
And, an added benefit nobody saw coming. The history and geography I will learn from this is fantastic!
enworb, I was confused why the same face was on so many different coins. There are pennies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong as well as "one quarter India". I have never in my life heard of a half penny either, so that was fun to find. And there is Ceylon. I couldn't read it last night, but with fresh eyes and more light I was able to see that.
Oh man, who saw this coming? haha
