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How does everyone organize their finds? Key dates? Rolls by years, decade? New to crh and trying to get ideas. Thanks
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Pillar of the Community
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Both my Jefferson nickels and Wheats go in coffee cans until I get enough to roll and store in drawers. Really cool finds go into flips and put in a ringed binder. Certain dates, mm and such I store in pill bottles until they also get rolled and stored in drawers. I also use small envelopes that I'll put questionable coins in, I'll mark them and put them aside until I can get to them. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Whitman books and plastic jars for the copper cents. I put the silver in 2x2's, unless I need them for a book. Save everything minted in 2009: cents are the Lincoln bicentennial series, nickels and dimes are hard to find the quarters have the DC and Territories series. Halves are fun and quick to run through but have been picked over for years. For Nickels save every thing older than 1960 is one general rule. A common mint error is the 1960 bar nickel, it has a bit of extra metal between the top of the 0 on the '1960' and the rim.
What coins have you gone through so far, what do you like?
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I've gone through halves picking out the silver, some nickels like you said older than 60, some quarters, some pennies. Getting to a point where I need better organization and storage.
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Pillar of the Community
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Unless it's silver or beautiful there is little point in keeping it, hoarding cents is another idea people have, just a jar or plastic container usually works for them.   Try not to let too much piling up, no point in hoarding dingy 70's and 80's quarters when you can get more nickels and a chance at silver. |
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The common silver go into storage tubes, because I'm a stacker.
Out of the thousands of silvers and others I've found, not many are worth categorizing, as they are common.
I usually catalog the pre-1900 silver I find, and anything uncommon, like the silver proofs or key dates.
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It depends on how organized you like to be, and how big you are willing to let your collection (horde) get. I'm personally a neat freak, and I like to be able to tell how many coins I have at a glance. The most cost-effective way for me to organize a growing collection was to buy atone of those little hardware organizers (like you can get to organize screws, nuts, and bolts) at a yard sale and put my finds in that, with one drawer per year. I mostly did nickels, so I have one drawer for BU coins 1938-1964, one drawer for buffalos, one for S-mints, one for War Nickels, and then one drawer per year 1938-1963 or so. Whenever I hit 40 coins of a particular date or mintmark (1958-D and 1940 were the first), I roll them, label them, and put them in a box I got from the bank. I do the same for other denominations, except with craft organizers like you can get at Wal-mart for $4. Of course, it's really a matter of your intent for your collection/horde. I'm looking to see my collection realize its value in 50-100 years for my kids and/or grandkids, so I kept lots of coins that don't currently have much value, such as BU 70s/80s nickels and cents. If you are looking at short-term or immediate returns, I'd recommend sticking to wheat cents, 40s/50s nickels, and silver. 2009s are hard to call--they might be worth a fortune in the future, but they most likely reached their peak value in late 2009/early 2010 where boxes of cents could go for $250 on ebay. It's all a matter of how many work their way into circulation over the next 20 years. |
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 I always love to see how people classify "Hoard" and "Collection". One crazy idea I had but have yet to work on it, was to go to a hardware store and buy plastic tubing that is the right diameter for each coin and make 5-6 foot long "rolls". Remember to always think outside the box, unless it's a proof set or a litter box. I did say earlier to keep every 2009, mainly due to the scarcity of them, but true there is no way to tell what will happen with them, for now I have less than $5 in 2009 coins, not counting quarters. So a small investment in hoarding a small amount of face value is a good idea, and if you could sell them off quick and make a nice profit that would be great, but most likely they will either be useless in a few years and you didn't loose anything or keeping them back now will turnout to be a very good idea. EDIT: had a glitch while composing had to edit to put this in, one of my out-of-the-box ideas  Edited by ASLAN TVorlon
01/13/2014 2:48 pm
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