Crazy Change - 20 To 30 Years Worth!

A dear friend of mine had been telling me about all the coins he has. He retired about 5 years ago, he's 72 now. He is definately just a hoarder and not a collector. I finally went over to his house today to see the hoard and OMG. There was 5 gallon water bottles and other containers that all had coins in them. It was all separated by cent, nickel, dime, quarter, etc.

The story is each day when he came home from work, he'd toss his change into these various containers, keeping each denomination separate. He said he'd been doing it 20 or 30 years without ever cashing in. Now he's at the point where he just wants to get rid of it so....of course....I said NO PROBLEM. For the job of removal and checking, I can keep anything I want (of low numismatic value) and if I find an error of value, that will obviously be his.

I could only carry some of the stuff out from his house today...it's just too heavy. I broke down some of the bigger containers into bags. I started with the Lincolns of course! It's an absolute JACK POT of 80-90's red, BU cents and about 40% copper so far. Man, this is REALLY helping me with my BU roll set. After just about an hour I pulled about 100 blazing red gem Zincolns from this first container.

Now, I don't collect quarters, dimes or nickels. The ONLY thing I'm searching for in that stuff is silver. A quick scan showed, just like the cents, lots of BU 80-90's coins. Any of you collectors interested in that stuff? Obviously, it will be all unsearched except for silver. There's so much I'm a bit overwhelmed!

So far I've just planned on dumping everything I don't want at the bank coin counter.