1956 D & D Lincoln Wheat Cent - RPM-016, FS-502

Congrats, beautiful specimen.

Nice color, great pick-up.

Great coin. MS 66 for a rare die is incredible. When do you open the musuem to visitors?

I like your thinking and wonder if the folks at CONECA might have some insight? (The current president is Jason Cuvelier which just might ring a bell with folks.)

I know the CONECA forum has participation that's a little weak but they usually have a table at a lot of coin shows (FUN comes to mind.) The members that man the tables are strong in the community and active members tend to take on a lot of responsibilities.

I would suggest any variety collectors stop by the table and show them some love. This bolsters spirits, strengthens ties, and may lead to connections that will grow over time to help produce the kind of activity TB mentions and a lot of us would enjoy.

Also, as more members join CONECA, more active participants will mean a more vibrant experience for everyone.

Everyone reading this, please consider joining join CONECA if you aren't already a member, and tell them The Coin Community Forum sent you. (They like to know how new members hear about them.)
CONECA LINK- https://conecaonline.org/join-or-re...fe%20Member)

Yard sale by appointment?

Really can't be a website very easily. How do you buy/sell/trade? If people had time to photograph all those coins they could just sell them on ebay or whatever. Anyone here interested in rooting through my thousands of doubles for things you need? Can't do that on a website.

Here is what I found last night, not including the two struck on thin planchet coins. And this is just one night of roll searching. Folks are just going to have to get together and bring their goodies if it's going to work.

Yeah, that's just last night. I've been putting them all in 2x2's for the last hour and still have a bunch to go. Sidetracked doing a requested photo of a counterfeit coin edge, but I can't just let all these things fester on my desk.

So I find them all with a loupe, and then move one of each different thing to the scope to get the attribution and die stage if reasonable. I just can't move fast enough with a scope to cover the number of coins I have to get through, so if you can't find it with a loupe I'm gonna miss it. But I don't pull very many of the minor split serif RPMs anyway, as it takes too long to attribute them and not a key part of my collection.

Well there are a number of ways to try and sell off the doubles, but all have drawbacks. Right now all I'm doing is just putting up a random lot every week on ebay at auction starting at 99 cents and it goes for what it goes for. Again, not optimal, as no matter what's in there some will be what the buyer wants and others less so. But it's moving 50 or so a week out the door, which is maybe just treading water as I probably add that many every week. Really would rather get exactly the coins folks are looking for to them, but can't be adding hours of time I don't have to getting them ready and photographing them and then picking through groups to get the invoices right and shipping them. I need to retire from my day (night) job.