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New Member
United States
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Last night I came home with 16 rolls of pennies, 8 rolls of nickels, and 1 roll of quarters. Aside from finding about $1's worth in key date wheat pennies I found this:  Is it normal to go through many hours of searching before finding something good or have I already with that penny? My usual procedure for pennies is to flip them on their heads and check for key date wheats, roll a magnet over them, and select the cleanest ones and check the obverse for any die cracks or doubling or any abnormalities. For the nickels I simply check the backs for buffalos and if there is one I check how old the nickel is and of the buffalo has an error. As for the quarters.. I don't know what I was doing with those. Am I doing anything wrong? Anyway, I'll be checking all my local banks everyday for John Adams gold dollars and hopefully they'll stop saying they don't have any. Thanks once again... |
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Moderator
 United States
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It's either caused by being dipped in something or half buried. Sorry to say but it's not an error.
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New Member
 United States
18 Posts |
I thought that. Obviously someone was out of oreos.
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Valued Member
United States
69 Posts |
No, you aren't doing anything wrong. It can just take some time to find errors. Keep at it and you will come across some. Also keep your eye peeled to the information here on Coin Community and you will learn what are errors and what aren't. Lots of good knowledge to soak up here. When you do find an error - it will be quite a rush  Have fun and welcome - Tony |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2540 Posts |
Sure looks like environmental damage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
I agree with GO on the cent. and as for your searching method there really is not right way to do it. you pick a way that works for you and run with it. after a while you will have a list either in your head or on the wall (i have the later) myself I look for certain dates and put the rest back to work. I have a list of one method that someone sent me that works well for me even though I go a bit further with mt searches than he does I will scan it and add it later.
Gary
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
wow that came out very small but if anyone wants a copy PM me and I will email it to you.   this is for cents only. hope it helps someone it has helped me.and will save time looking for every coin. Gary Edited by garylcsr
07/04/2007 4:29 pm
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New Member
United States
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2,500 pennies later, after finding about 8 wheat pennies and 5 dimes (haha, free money in penny rolls), I found this. I doubt it's an error but if it is, it would be worth a good amount since I found some slight doubling of the "R" in LIBERTY under my microscope using the 10x lense. Anyway, the more apparent abnormality that I'm hesitant about is the indentation on the last 6 in the date.  By the way, Gary, I'd appreciate it if you could email me your list. Unfortunately it says I don't have enough posts to email and I can't figure out how to PM. Thanks a lot and happy 4th of July! Also, does anyone know where to sell old copper coins for melting? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
it is against the law to melt them now so I would not go to the nearest metal smelter lol. your 1966 is post mint damage. looks like another coin hit it. no value other that the cent it is worth or the 2.4 it is worth in metal lol had to add that lol
buzz you got mail
Gary too
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
Buzz you don't have any contact info on your profile so your mail is on hold till you add it
Gary too
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Buzz, I agree with Gary, DON'T MELT it! Unless you would like to see what "Paris Hilton" was so scared of. I understand those bars have a "taming effect" on one. Never been there, and don't plan on it in THIS lifetime! You might check on coppercoins.com for a bit of assistance.
Dick
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New Member
United States
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I don't understand these coppercoins.com people. They want me to send in my coins as well as a lot of money for what?
EDIT: Ok my profile is fixed. That's my junk mail address by the way (I said that for reasons of embaressment of the stupid name).
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07/05/2007 11:52 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
I think you are talking about getting your coins attributed. they do charge for that but your coin will come back with it's own numbers on the flip and you will have some sort of idea what your coin is worth. but it is totally up to you what you do with your coins no body is going to force you to do anything you don't want to do. so I would say it is very simple." if you don't want to do it" DONT.
Gary
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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BuzzBuzzYolk - I can answer your question.
When you want your coin identified as to what die variety it is, we spend time - usually up to 2 hours per coin - to identify them and write you a letter telling you which varieties you have. This is called "attribution". It involves a LOT of time, photographs, and other things you might not be thinking about. You pay a fee to have a professional look at your coin and identify it for you. I'm not sure where you get a "LOT" of money from - we charge $3 per coin for identification. This works out to an average of less than a fourth of minimum wage to help you with your collection when all the expense of equipment, time, and server cost is involved.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
nice to see you again Chuck.
you must be busy as heck fact I know you are lol .take care
Gary
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