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Valued Member
United States
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Its a really good idea to donate them to some young collectors. Sometimes all it takes to get a collector to really get into to coin collecting is to get some access to some coins they cant just pluck from circulation. I stated collecting really young, trying to fill a penny book from coins in circulation. It wasn't until I was given my Grandfather's collection did I truly start taking an interest in coins. My Grandfather's collection was just full of common date V Nicks, Buffalos, and a few Indian Head Pennies all in very circulated condition, but it was all coins I had never owned before. It really got me going.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1. Give them to kids, like everyone else said. 2. Hide them under the floorboards so that after you forget about them, you'll find them and you can search them again. 3. Same as no. 2, but throw some Shield nickels in there before to make it more interesting. |
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United States
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How about you bury them in parks? If I got an old nickel metal detecting, I'd keep it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
Just curious- what type of donations are accepted for FUN table? I might do some thinning of the collection, but then I get second thoughts and think I need more Wheat cent rolls especially of 1940, 1944, 1957d... Not sure if those are most common, but I must have a roll or 2 of each from CRH |
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Valued Member
United States
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Well what I do with coins like that is Spend them. Some coin collector will find them in Change and go Wow I haven't seen one like this in a good while. It will make someone smile.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
562 Posts |
I normally toss any common, older circulated Jefferson nickels into my "fun" money tray to use for poker money. I'll often ask coin dealers if they have any dateless Shield, Liberty Head or Buffalo nickels they'd like to sell for at or near face value and toss those in as well. I'm up to half a roll of dateless nickels. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The idea I like best is to get them into the hands of kids, but you'd want to make sure they get at least two of whatever type/denomination so that they could compare the differences and have some kind of direction to get them started. If we did it at a show, there would have to be some way to "cut off" greedy old guys who'd do anything (twice) for a nickel[quote]! Maybe one of those things they have at amusement parks that say you have to be this tall [or shorter] to qualify  Coins from India? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Coins from India? You would be amazed at if you ask anyone from India if they have some coins from home, how many you'ld get. One of the places I used to work was owned by a person from India. Several of his relatives worked there too. I mentioned to all of them I collected coins and all of them brought me lots of coins from India. I'm not an Indian coin collector but now have piles of them in my collection. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Speaking of Indian coins- In the early days of my collecting, my younger brother wanted to try as well. (He soon lost interest) He came along with me to my first coin show, entered the raffle, and won this. As a 7 or 8 year old, I was incredibly jealous. He kept taunting me with it for a couple of years before giving it to me as a birthday present.    I believe the 50 Rupee piece is silver, but I am not sure. |
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 United States
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In the early days of my collecting, my younger brother wanted to try as well. (He soon lost interest) He came along with me to my first coin show, entered the raffle, and won this. As a 7 or 8 year old, I was incredibly jealous. He kept taunting me with it for a couple of years before giving it to me as a birthday present. Nice set.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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They can make a great boy scout project. . . . Any pre-1960 Jefferson nickel ought to be valued at least $0.10 unless it is just really nasty. If XF-AU and pre 1956 then they are at least like $0.25 a piece. Circulated War-Nickels under AU put in your junk silver box ---- and when you can sell them right at their melt value do it. Because they are only 35% Silver Helen Smelter has to use more gas and heat to turn them into silver bars. So she pays the bigger bullion boys (such as Dallas Gold & Silver) less of a percentage of the ASW (actual silver weight) when they ship a bunch of bags in. |
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 United States
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Since it's been at least 15 years since I even looked at my collection (except State Quarters), I started going through my old Jeff nickels again. I have my main "completed" set in a Dansco album (up to 1990) and a partial backup set in my old Whitman folder from the old days. So far, out of 2 of 6 nickel tubes, I filled two holes in the old folder and upgraded about a half dozen coins in the album. Guess it was worth sorting through them again. |
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