I Have Accumulated Too Much Junk

I agree, if you don't want it get rid of it by shipping it off to someone that does. You can easily put 10 pounds of coins in a small flat rate box and ship it off. Face value + 10% + flat rate postage of ~$10 can easily help clear out your excess "junk" and make some other hoarder/accumulator/addict happy for a few days.

You have no idea how many pre 1960 nickels, dateless #129452; nickels and other stuff I've gotten rid of that way the past 20 years!

Also check Arizona Coin and Jewelry's current "buy" list (on line) as they buy a lot of common stuff like pre 1960 nickels, certain clad Kennedys, bicentennial quarters and Ike dollars. At least they pay more than face and it all adds up!

Good luck!

I have a similar problem. I don't do hoarding, but very often I find coins that I purchased earlier and that are not interesting to me now. Sometimes they can be sold, but it's a long process. Often people just exchange coins. But I came up with another idea of how you can do with your change. What if you buy a box of 1 cent, 5 cents or even 10 cents from a bank? It will take your evening and maybe you can find something.

Great idea, in my case it would be great-grandchildren. I intend to leave it all to my oldest son and let him figure it out.

That's what I am facing right now after dad's passing. Dad had both true collectable coins and hoardes of coins which he had acquired from his dad as well as what he had collected through his lifetime.

My strategy? I am currently dividing all hoarded coins into series and further breaking them down by decades. Will read up on what to look for on each series, takes notes, than one a weekly basis, review at least one to decades of a series per week. Each coin will be categorized as follows:
- Worth more face and melt value - set aside
- melt/Scrap pile for coins whose melt is more than face value
-spend/deposit into bank account

I am going through this pain staking because I just semi retired, have time on my hands, need a hobby and want to maximize the proceeds of the estate for the benefit of my 2 siblings and late sister's 3 children. Dad taught me how to look for silver coins in my lunch money, showed me the jewels of collections periodically so in a weird kinda way, it like honoring him and continuing his legacy. So if you have time and motivation, this could be a way as well.

I must have missed that memo.

But I do not have any junk!

Okay, I might have some junk... a few rolls of common Wheat and 95% Memorial cents... a box of nickels. It is certainly not taking up much room.

Ok... that makes two of us! I guess while many liquidate their starting collection, many keep them as well. But there certainly is a progression of coin quality increasing from beginner to experienced.

As has been mentioned prior, it is fun to hand some cashier a group of Ikes and Kennedy halves. Sometimes they may call the manager over to verify if its good. I've dumped most of mine by now including unwanted two dollar bills. Have fun!

This was me in summer 2022. I decided to go through all the rolls of coins I'd saved from circulation over the first 11 years of my collecting journey that started in childhood, threw all the junk in my jar, and ended up with some $120 more in my savings account. It included bags of spending money (none of it numismatically interesting) given to me by deceased relatives, lots of late-era state and ATB Quarters, westward journey nickels, shield zincolns, etc. that had just been sitting around in my room for years, just losing value and not fulfilling its destiny as coins.

My mom saves everything, of any denomination, from 1982 or earlier. That's the year cents went from 95% copper to copper-plated zinc, so she sees anything older than that as being from a bygone era. Meanwhile my dad has a jar full of bicentennial stuff he's accumulated over the decades and continues to do so. Eventually, I'm going to inherit all this stuff.