More of a metal detecting one, but when I was a kid I used to toss a bunch of coins out in the yard to find with my $50 metal detector (this was like 7 years ago, I now have a MUCH better metal detector) so no there is like $5 in mostly zincolns scattered around my yard.
Is that a bad thing? You don't have to look at those Zincolns anymore.
That reminds me- for my seventh birthday party my dad bought a roll of brand-new Washington Presidential dollars and buried them at the beach for me and my friends to find. There are probably still some there.
Quote: ..when I was a kid I used to toss a bunch of coins out in the yard to find with my $50 metal detector (this was like 7 years ago, I now have a MUCH better metal detector) so no there is like $5 in mostly zincolns scattered around my yard.
When I was 8-ish, I followed the advice on a children's TV show ("Zoom" on PBS) and cleaned all of my wheat cents with lemon juice. Ended up corroding almost every one of them, then made them worse by rubbing them "clean" again.
I was able to replace most of them with others pulled from rolls or general circulation, but the picture of an album full of corroded copper will stick in my mind forever.
I electroplated a 1909-VDB penny with some sort of silver or zinc or iron or some gray colored metal (have it to this day some 50 years later) I learned about in science class. At the time the 1909-VDB was not worth very much, and no, it was not the S mint. I got the idea from a giant novelty version I got as a kid. Here's a recent blunder I did: (before I learned about PVC). I wanted to get back on track collecting US coinage so I bought all the Ike dollars including silver then set then aside until I was ready to deal with them. Later on when I opened my sealed box I discovered why "soft plastic" coin holders are intended for mailing or short term use. After that I learned how to test at home for PVC in my cardboard holders and ended up changing a lot of them. Seemed to me to be criminal that a supplier would use PVC in any sort of coin holder.
Quote: When I was 8-ish, I followed the advice on a children's TV show ("Zoom" on PBS) and cleaned all of my wheat cents with lemon juice. Ended up corroding almost every one of them, then made them worse by rubbing them "clean" again.
One of the big ones that I can think of off of the top of my head is buy "unsearched lots of coins". I would get them thinking I would find a treasure that no one has see in a long, long while. I should have known better from ebay sellers that are not always the most truthful. That was years ago and I have learned my lesson. You live, you learn.
I used to watch Zoom. But that was when there were quality kids shows on, like Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.
Oh, and I'm 19, so this wasn't too long ago.
The only thing on that is somewhat decent for my baby sister (she's 6, but I still think of her as a baby sister) to watch is Spongebob. We don't really let her watch anything else.
I had bought low grade coins with high price, I guess I did all the mistakes that a newbie can do.The most thing important is that we learn from our mistakes:).
Quantity over quality. There was a time I wanted to have all the world silver crowns in my collection. Deluded I was. Now that I have to sell most of my collection at a loss on ebay to build a more focused collection.
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