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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
 This weekend I am buying about $72 face value in wheat pennies!  I'm thinking of starting my first folder. Advice? -PP
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Moderator
 United States
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Just go on ahead and send those over to me and I'll be More then happy to fill the albums For you Believe it or not...I'm just that awesome of a guy  |
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 United States
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I'm thinking of starting my first folder. Advice? Best advice I can offer is to have fun!  Quote:
Just go on ahead and send those over to me and I'll be More then happy to fill the albums For you Return shipping is extra! |
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Valued Member
 United States
486 Posts |
How should I store the ones that dont make it into the folder? -PP
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
Ziplock baggies won't hurt them........airtight and no PVC.....
Or.....I have extra baggies.....just send them to me and I'll store them for ya !
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Valued Member
United States
58 Posts |
Good Luck with getting those done over the weekend! I've been going through about 8600 for close to a week now and not half way there yet!
KS
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2602 Posts |
I just started going through a very large lot of wheats (15K) and I've done maybe 1000 and am already exhausted. Could take me awhile to do them all. Any tips on how to sort? We're doing it by decade so that I have the teens and 20s already set aside upfront. The 40s and 50s are a real pain- too many!! I'm planning to make a book or two of collections, and then not sure what to do with the rest.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I went through all this earlier this year, I split the 40's and 50's into two lots each, 40 thru 44 and 45 thru 49, and there is still to many. I have them in baggies and then in some metal cookie tins my girlfriends mother gets every christmas. I stuck several dissicant capsules in each tin as well,then I made a spreadsheet to keep track of what I had. I did plan on selling the extras but I can's seem to do it, plus I have added several thousand more that I need to sort. one thing about the baggies, get good ones, the first time I opened one of my tins the two bags had come open, resorting them was a real pain.
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Member
United States
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A cheap way is to get 10 or so Whitman cent books without dates $2.75ea and set it up the way you want. thats what I have done I am up to 28 folders  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
I've been through just a paltry 2,500 to 3,000 or so and they're all segregated by the "decade" and by the "mintmark". And of course any that go into the album. With some being in tubes and a bunch in ziplocks. But that IS a lot of work !!......I enjoy it, but I gotta say, I'm in NO HURRY to buy any more Wheats any time soon !!......It took me a LONG LONG time to accomplish this task !
I prefer to get the "unsearched Wheats" from estate auctions......better chance of earlier dates and DD's I feel and better odds that they actually ARE unsearched, except by the now deceased owner (or whatever reason for the estate sale happens to be)
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Valued Member
United States
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Look forward to a pain of a hobby going to work. It seems that every time I start separating my pennies I decide to add another step or two or revamp what I am doing. So my biggest advice is to find ONE way and go with that.
The cheaper albums will be good for multiple sets, my main suggestion is do about 6-10 at a time so you do not have to go back over it again too soon. I know that one of the things I started to do (and then gave up after awhile) was to have a folder for all my conditions AU50 and below, this way it was a complete set of that grade. It then became too big of a pain because I started second guessing myself on the conditions because I could not see the reverse side. So now I have a Dansco album for my nicest set and a few smaller folders for different conditions, 2x2's for odd coins (variety, offset...) and Ziploc bags for the majority of the rest.
Quick side question: where did you get the Wheaties and for how much? Where I am at we have only one store that does not sell them cheaper in bulk and estate auctions are unheard of.
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
Penny Pincher, well I could tell you where I got them from, but then I'd have to kill you.  I am buying them for 2.5 cents unsearched. -PP |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1231 Posts |
Any extras that you have just ship them to me, I will glad to add them to the 1000's I still need to sort through.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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.....I did plan on selling the extras but I can's seem to do it..... You're addicted.  |
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Valued Member
United States
100 Posts |
I like to buy the albums and go through the pennies one by one until the album is complete. Then if you want to make money, loads of people would buy it on ebay! |
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Valued Member
United States
487 Posts |
I bought over 20,000 in April, more than half of them where rolled by date and mint so didn't need to do that much sorting. When I finished up I wanted a better 29 P for my album and was looking through rolls of 29's for a nice one and found 1 roll with 15 1909's so now I'm wandering about some of the other rolls and what I might find.
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Posted 06/26/2008 3:54 pm
