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When I am going through coins I have some jars on the stand behing my scope labeled for lamination, diecrack, BIE etc. Has anyone ever tried to put a date set together for these. I have most of the 41-58 wheats with the BIE. I just upgraded my son from a whitman to a DANSCO so I'm thinking of using the whitman to but the BIE's together. Maybe I'm just wacko!!
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Pillar of the Community
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Do you have jars for RPMs and doubled dies too? Frankly laminations, die cracks, and bies are hardly worth the effort in value. If it's just your gig that's fine, but if you care about the market value of your collection, you would be wasting your time on laminations and die cracks. They are far too common to carry any potential of marketable value.
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Yep coppercoins is right, however there are people who will buy anything and a collection like that might be interesting to them. If does involve a lot of time go for it.
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No jars for the RPM's and DD's I put them in 2x2's. Its just something I started doing a few years ago when I got big into roll searching. Initially it was one jar and I'd put anything out of the ordinary or interesting in there. After a while the jar got pretty full so I split them up. None of them are valuable but IMHO are interesting. I have the cheap extra folder so I figure why not! I was just checking to see if anyone else is as crazy as me. I guess not, Lol!
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Hey we're all a little crazy. Looking at coins for hours at a time, I've got to be nuts.
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I've been searching through Lincoln cents sine I was a kid. During that time I figured out through searching and through reading books and magazines what was - and what was not - of value. The way I collect (obsessive) only leaves room for me to keep what has some form of value, because if I kept everything 'interesting' I would end up with a million coins nobody would want to deal with upon my departure. I had to find a way to keep it small, simple, and of greatest interest. Even as it is, the collection is nearly 10,000 coins...but only includes coins of marketable interest. I found Machine Doubling, die cracks, small clips, and laminations to be too common to include in what would have to be a limited collection. I only keep doubled dies, mintmark varieties, and errors of premium value. All the years I have been digging through cents and I only have around three dozen true errors. All the rest went back into pocket change or back into the rolls from which they came. |
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although coppercoins,a million coins,even cents should be worth something  |
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one million cents,just being funny sorry
Edited by vud091
01/30/2009 1:56 pm
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Hi,
Going back to the initial question, I know someone who in the past was working on putting together a larger set of cents struck on incomplete planchets.
I am not sure if he is still doing this and I am not sure how far he got. I know that it has been ten years or more since he was trying to do that.
That would be a hoot to try. Of course, he was not trying to do that by searching through rolls but my roll searching activities did provide him with some of the coins he needed as he was doing that.
Bill
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Posted 01/30/2009 10:47 am
