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Valued Member
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I've gone through a few boxes of pennies in the past couple of days, and found the usual stuff. as many do, I keep all wheats. as in my last couple of posts, I found a few minor DDRs that I will keep, but I was wondering if people keep small errors such as small die cracks, lam cracks, slight MADs, etc. as of now, I'm keeping those things, but not sure if I'm wasting my time... although you can never keep too much  |
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When your new to the hobby you keep a lot of stuff a seasoned collector would not. I only keep die cracks when they are unusual, in a area they are not known for or cover at least 50% of the coin. I do keep LAM's unless they are real tiny. I keep wheats unless they are damaged. I only keep MAD's when part of the devices are missing. I keep DDO and DDR's,woodies ,high grades,1982 SD cents,pre 1960 Canadians,trail dies,wavy steps,clashes,large die chips,CUD's,railroad rims,mad clashes,IHC etc. John1  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Cool, thanks for the advice!
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Valued Member
United States
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When in the back of your mind, you hear your inner voice say "NICE". And everytime you decide to pull it out, you still hear "NICE".
Edited by jungliston1
08/02/2015 2:56 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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John1 covered the important points.
I'd only add that if, by keeping your unusual finds, you continue to hone your skills and learn from the process it is worthwhile.
Back in the day I kept every "BIE" cent that I found only to eventually turn them loose into circulation - hopefully to be found by a new collector.
jungliston1 made the clincher: if your hear an inner voice say "nice" then keep it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like to hang on to a Very early die state when I find it . These or the best I can find from each date give me a good reference set should I find a coin that doesn't seem right but I can't put my finger on just what it is.. Likewise a set of terminal die state coins can show where that design is headed to.
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I agree with all the above, very good advice. I might add two things, you may or may not know, never clean or even wipe your keepers and keep the nice nice ones in holders available at your local coin shop for cheap. Use needle nose pliers to flatten the staples in order to protect the next coin in the stack.
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Posted 08/02/2015 1:09 pm
