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What Should I Do With My Coins From The 60's And 70's?

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 Posted 12/30/2016  12:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mvl9591 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you coinlover. I've looked over my collection/hoard and found a small container of halves. No silver, everything is 1971 or newer. I cashing them in and buying one or two Ben Franklin halves.
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 Posted 12/30/2016  08:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jovian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think it is up to you to decide what and how you want to collect. The first question is are you a collector or an investor? Up until recently when I added the 70s I kept all prior to 1970. Now I hold on to all prior to 1980 unless it has damage. I keep some 80s and 90s if the grade is high enough. I will keep post 2000 if it is MS. The point is you set your own standards of what you want to keep. If things get to much you can change your methods. No, you are not likely to mass a fortune doing that, but everyone here collects differently. So read the great advice you can get here and do your own thing. I hang on to a lot because I am still learning about varieties and may have some I have not recognized yet. After that I may sort out and spend anything below VF or some other grade.
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 Posted 12/31/2016  10:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cladking to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'd suggest you buy the cheap Whitman folders and keep the nicest coin of every date and mintmark. Look for nice well made coins with a minimum of wear and no major problems.

Such collections are not only attractive, fun, and very cheap but they are also great as reference collections. Anytime you get a coin that looks a little different you'll have another coin with which to compare it.

Many of the moderns are actually becoming quite scarce in XF and AU condition so collections do have some potential. By spending the rest of the coins (you might want to keep nice duplicates to trade) you won't be tying up your capital in coins being eroded away by inflation.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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I took a fair share of my recent coins to Coinstar earlier this year.

Cashed them in and went shopping
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 Posted 01/01/2017  02:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bigchip22 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
yes cash the coins in and buy some good coins
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