Almost forgot this one.
Posted 01/29/2009 7:28 pm
It all depends on your goals/desires. I recycle about 80% or so of my bank coins. All I can tell you is what I look for and keep. I'm not completely infatuated with all the die varieties....it's too time consuming for me. Here's what I'm looking for:
1) 98/99/2000 Wide AM's
2) 1992D Close AM
3) Gem quality BU's in all years, must be MS65+, well struck and no distracting marks. At some point, I'm going to put together BU roll sets with these.
4) Coppers, I'm keeping the coppers for the future. I think the price of copper will rise again and these will be worth at least 2x face in melt value.
5) Special coins for my collection, i.e. full red coppers, Grease Filled Dies, neat toning, anything else I find interesting. On a side note, I only have about 30 of these after searching about 15 boxes. I'm real picky!
6) 1972 DDO, 1984 doubled-ear, 1995 DDO
IMO, you have to pretty selective searching these or you'll find yourself absolutely buried in coins. There's billions and billions of Lincolns!
1) 98/99/2000 Wide AM's
2) 1992D Close AM
3) Gem quality BU's in all years, must be MS65+, well struck and no distracting marks. At some point, I'm going to put together BU roll sets with these.
4) Coppers, I'm keeping the coppers for the future. I think the price of copper will rise again and these will be worth at least 2x face in melt value.
5) Special coins for my collection, i.e. full red coppers, Grease Filled Dies, neat toning, anything else I find interesting. On a side note, I only have about 30 of these after searching about 15 boxes. I'm real picky!
6) 1972 DDO, 1984 doubled-ear, 1995 DDO
IMO, you have to pretty selective searching these or you'll find yourself absolutely buried in coins. There's billions and billions of Lincolns!
