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Rest in Peace
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Somewhere in storage..... I have a Wells Fargo cloth bag of coins, tokens, and the like. Coins that I picked up off of the street over the sixties and seventies, tokens that I got cheap at flea markets, and circulating coins from a number of foreign countries I visited. Chips from a few casinos. A winners tab from a game I was playing in Long Beach that was shut down by the local PD.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I keep all bicentennial quarters I find. I just cant spend them! I have 15 dollars worth, they have no intrinsic value, its just a sickness that I'm going to have to come to terms with one day. As far as coins that are meaningful to me? My dads military squadron coins mean a lot to me. A lot of the foreign coins I have because they where from when I lived overseas in Australia and England as a young young kid. My Mercury dime I found in circulation I attribute to me getting into coin collecting in the first place. And I just recently got a lot of coins from my mom and dad, stuff they had when they were my age, that I can't see myself getting rid of. |
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United States
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I keep all the copper cents I find.
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I keep all the copper cents I find. So do I!  I have also found myself unable to spend any nickel or dime I get. Not sure why yet.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I save every denomination of my change......segregate it into different "piggy banks".....look through it very carefully......then when there's a substantial amount, ($200.00 for example), I then take it to my bank and have it deposited.
If I could refrain from taking it to the bank like Jbuck.......after 30 years, I bet I'd have THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF CHANGE THERE !!....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I haven't saved any "pre-1982" LHC's.......dunno why really. I just don't have the " copper fever" that's so popular. Gold or Silver YES !!.....but not copper fer' me .....  |
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United States
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If only I had thousands of dollars worth of change!  I think I have about $100 in Lincoln Cents though, but I am not sure what percentage of that is copper.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I've got about 2000 1 grosz pieces..
Think of it as a modern half-cent coin (or 1/3 cent if the dollar's value rises further).. what could that ever be useful for.. need 150 of them to buy a newspaper and 10 to get a box of matches (the cheapest item I can think of). Why do they even mint them?!
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Why do they even mint them?! I ask the same question when it comes to our one cent piece. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm scratching my head a bit on being exposed to light. If the coin were truly sealed 100% from the elements and only was exposed to light, I would like to know what chemical reaction is happening so that the luster diminishes. I don't believe that luster can diminish unless air is involved as well - so the coins weren't perfectly sealed.
I'd be interested to hear opinions on this
In 1959 I made a desk type pen holder out of liquid plastic. First a layer of the liquid plastic about a half inch and as it hardened I placed 3 1959 Dimes and 6 1959 Lincoln Cents there. I then continued to pour more of the liquid plastic and as hardened, I added the 3 pen holders. This is still on my desk, is in some sunlight most of the afternoon and still looks the same as when I made it in 1959. So if sunlight effects coins where no air can get to them no one told these in the pen holder. They still look brand new. I wonder what made me do that. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Here is one I hang on to, don't really know why, except the novelty, although 1 of 10,000,000 isn't real novel is it?  |
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United States
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Here is one I hang on to, don't really know why, except the novelty, although 1 of 10,000,000 isn't real novel is it? So, do you have a matching Sacagawea for him? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I read some article about that Cheerio thing. Forgot about it. Quote:
keep all bicentennial quarters I find. I just cant spend them! I have 15 dollars worth then sell them to me. heheheeee. Quote:
I keep all copper coins I find Me too.  Edited by 1337
09/01/2008 7:51 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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The Sacky's are the tough one. The novelty is that they bore the wrong date of issue.
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Valued Member
United States
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I also have one of those Cheerios pennies! My local coin dealer has one too. I keep all of the bicentennial quarters I find, and I just started pulling copper cents.
As far as sentimental value, I have my Grandma's small collection, and I have a 500 WON bill from Korea which my uncle gave me.
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