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New Member
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Folks, since months a punch of penny coins are sitting on my desk.  They are now my Thanksgiving sorting job  I'm not that familiar with penny coins but I got some books from our library. Do you have any general recommendations for what I have to watch out? |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like fun!  I would suggest going here: http://goccf.com/t/296596...and downloading Coin IDing For Dummies Volume 2 by Crazyb0. Near the end, he has a very nice list of what to look for while searching Lincoln cents. If you are unfamiliar with the terms, just ask or use the CCF Glossary. While you're there, download Vol. 1 as well. You will learn quite a bit, I'm sure.   In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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11/23/2017 11:34 pm
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New Member
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Thanks for sharing! Looks VERY helpful to me.
I'll let you know if I find a valuable sleeper in the coin lot.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Unless your planning starting a set of those, I suggest you simply start by removing everything from 83 and up. That should make almost all that's left worth at least looking at. Then put aside all Wheat Back Cents to be looked at more closely later.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Have fun and keep us up to date! to the CCF! |
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to the Community! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I suggest you simply start by removing everything from 83 and up. Except that would remove the possibility of finding the '83 DDR, '84 DDO, '92-P&D Close AMs, 1998-2000 Wide AMs and the 2015 DDO. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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New Member
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Thanks for welcoming me. It was fun but I make slow progress. Probably, I'll share some impressions the next day. At least I got a War Nickel out of another lot browsing approx. 250 coins to get one :-) |
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Rest in Peace
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Quote:At least I got a War Nickel out of another lot browsing approx. 250 coins to get one :-) That's really not too bad of odds!. Sure, it could be a whole lot better, and could be worse. There are folks here that have gotten skunk on 1-3 (sometimes more) $500 boxes of halves. That's a 1000 coins per box. And in no way am I trying to compare boxes of halves to what you are searching! Just trying to let ya know that IMO, 1 out of 250 ain't to shabby compared to 0 out of a couple of thousand or more. Almost forgot, Edited by Tootallious
11/29/2017 12:51 pm
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Quote:At least I got a War Nickel out of another lot browsing approx. 250 coins to get one :-) Nice find! |
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