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Pillar of the Community
United States
581 Posts |
Where do you draw the line. What do you decide to keep. You fill the books, and you get most of everything you can get (from rolls basically) I know some keep all copper cents. Do you just keep the cream of the crop. All the BU's you can get your hands on, which decades do you keep (obviously the earlier the better) Do you draw the line pre or post 90's...just take a few 2000+ and recycle the rest? It doesn't exactly have to pennies either
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4541 Posts |
When I am searching rolls I keep everything I like as I come across it 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
528 Posts |
any upgrades go into my books. Old ones just go back into circ. I have no use for rolls of pennies. Unless they are wheats then I have a roll for those. Same with nickels unless it is really something special.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
i save all pre 1959 nickels, s mint memorials, and certain other high priced BU dates for nickels, all other modern nickels and pennies go back out to the bank unless their a variety or error. -XoG
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
I keep alot of key date coin even in fine cond. I always up grade. Some coins I am putting together 2nd sets. I always keep the really nice one from rolls.I guess the real answer is it stops where you want it to stop.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2520 Posts |
Quote: I guess the real answer is it stops where you want it to stop. This is the best answer yet! It really depends on how much you can afford to put aside & how much room your significant other will allow you to dedicate to your collection!
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Valued Member
United States
317 Posts |
I keep any silver ( of course ) and any relatively low mintage coins in decent shape. Basically, it just depends on what catches my eye.
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Rest in Peace
United States
2668 Posts |
I've been bagging and tagging everything in sight. Putting coins in 2x2s helps me forget my problems. I've finished all of my foreign coins and I'm now working on mt elongated coins. Yup, got the right 2x2s for 'em. Soon I'll be going back and making sure I have labeled everything with country, value/denomination, and year/mint. Then if I get desperate I'll go back and label composition and ID#. I should have some new victims before that.  The best find from several kilos of foreigns was an 1862 British penny. If I can't make out the date or it's too gunky, it goes in my cull box. Well, they will when I find it; my three year old grandson has disappeared it, again. 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
well I keep all the coppers (my poor man's bullion) wheats get put in a roll if I dont need them (i trade them at the coin shop one roll of wheats for 100 2x2 flips) any full red cents (not all are BU) then when I get a couple 100 Reds then I look to see if any are upgrades then I build rolls of 50 year LMC and keep them as Ben Franklin said "A penny saved is a penny earned"think he said that before the mint made Cents
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1055 Posts |
Yotie- In 1733, Ben Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanac, an almanac that brought him great notoriety. He sold about 10,000 copies of the almanac each year. The almanac included information of many types as well as popular sayings such as "A penny saved is twopence clear" (which we often hear today as "A penny saved is a penny earned") So the public fudged up a quote into the "quote" we hear today. Just though I would add that.  And as far as what to keep, just keep whatever catches your eye or is interesting to you, after all it is your collection.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
thanks Cownas always like to learn sumtin and if copper keeps going up I just may get my tuppences worth of cents
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
581 Posts |
Quote: Yotie- In 1733, Ben Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanac, an almanac that brought him great notoriety. He sold about 10,000 copies of the almanac each year. The almanac included information of many types as well as popular sayings such as "A penny saved is twopence clear" (which we often hear today as "A penny saved is a penny earned") Just for an interesting tidbit of useless information on this thought. I live close enough to Philadelphia that I had the chance to visit the grave of Ben Franklin...Ironically his grave stone (more of a slab really) was covered with...you guessed it...pennies (really)
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Valued Member
United States
61 Posts |
Quote: you guessed it...pennies I guessed Franklin halves... Guess I was wrong. I save anything I need that is not in terrible condition. Most other stuff goes right back into circulation unless it is something like a wheat or Buffalo nickel.
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Valued Member
United States
290 Posts |
I am small potatoes to just about everyone here. However, I save all copper pennies, and only distinguish wheaties from the other coppers. All 1982s are kept separate for figuring out another day.
I don't roll search anything (but have done pennies before - may do so again). Of course, I always check my change for an out-of-circulation coin or silver. But I don't have much knowledge about (or experience with) errors, so I don't check for them.
pretty boring, huh?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1745 Posts |
I just pushed the line to the right. I went to the bank today and doubled my Safety Deposit Box capacity, so I don't need to think about that for awhile.
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Valued Member
United States
311 Posts |
I'm another "copper bullion" hoarder. In addition...
I batch up common wheats (1940s-50s P&D) and sell them to collectors when I have a big pile. I 2x2 anything especially nice or oddball... for example, I have a bunch of counterstamped pennies- the JFK facing Lincoln, the States, "Love", and so on. I don't bother keeping "BU" common cents separate unless they have zero flaws visible to the naked eye- those go in tubes. I've got a Dansco that I'm always on the lookout for upgrades for, and then whatever gets replaced goes into a Whitman folder. I've got a bin for less-common-but-not-valuable wheats, mostly to keep them handy in case someone is looking for something.
So basically, the only cents that ever get spent/returned to bank are imperfect zincolns.
With pennehs, my rule is that when in doubt, hold on to it! (which, of course, explains my screen name...)
Edited by PennehChaos 07/21/2009 12:58 pm
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