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Last month I mentioned that I was filling tubes with Lincolns Cents from my Mom's and my lifelong collection(s). I wanted to share my progress so far as I'm planning on removing them from the 100 tube box and making 2 boxes of them. While I don't quite have every tube filled, some of the years are 1/4 to 3/4 full (exception 1922). These are all Circulated! It's been fun to see what it looks like. The box is now about 30+ lbs! I hope that you enjoy seeing this. The 60's are a little lean. Seems that Mom was too busy running after her youngest (tee hee) daughter at the time and didn't have time for her collection. I WILL finish it for her now! Little girl all grew up! ;-) (Coin tubes facing the camera are full)  |
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Very nice collection Deb. What are your plans for these once they are all full?
Tim
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WOW! Thats amazing Deb! Although I do not usually collect from circulation that makes me want to start!  |
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Thanks Tim! I really don't know what I'm going to do with them. I'll just wait until after 2009 and go from there I guess. I still have more than a plenty to fill about half the tubes again! My Mom knew about the small dates/large dates, double dies and Key dates and most of them she kept, except for a couple of key dates/mints she sold. Most of all though, I've had a blast doing this. Now I'm going through change and picking out the Coppers and newer dates that I still have to fill. It's amazing how many Coppers are still floating around. I'll certainly update when I'm finished!
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I think it's a super cool idea and a great way to honor your mom. Thanks for the picture and update! I never got to hear the beginning of the story...when she started, how long she gathered and what inspired her to collect cents.
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ichirensha: I think that in a lot of ways my Mom started collecting like so many of us have - she liked pennies! She was born in 1919, poor, in the hills of West Virginia. She started collecting when she was just a young girl as pennies were probably all that she got for herself. Skipping ahead...both of my parents were in the Restaurant business for most of their lives. Mom continued to pull all the wheaties and silver coins from the register daily. She had quite the collection. I've found notes in my Mom's boxes as far back as 1958 saying that her coins go to me after she's gone. Somehow, she knew when I was just a little girl, that I would take after her and enjoy collecting coins as much as she did. That's the story! My Mom died on June 1, 2005 in Mesa, Arizona. My husband and I dropped our entire lives in Colorado and came to Arizona in March of 2004 to help my frail Father and to be with my Mom until the end. We're all planning on returning to Colorado, with Dad in tow and Mom's coins and memories within a few months.
To say the least, my Mom's pennies are precious to me and I wanted to do something nice with them for her! She wouldn't have a problem with me selling some of them if I needed or wanted to but, that will be hard if I ever do!
Thanks for asking!
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Wow very cool. And its great that you are kind of keeping your moms spirits alive.
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Your story is precious as is the bond with your mother. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Geez Deb..You weren't kidding.Maybe you should make a few sets up for keeps before you sell them off one day.Great job filling those tubes :) sn31.
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Geez Deb..You weren't kidding.Maybe you should make a few sets up for keeps before you sell them off one day.Great job filling those tubes :) sn31.
I'm working on it sn31! The more I look at them the more I think I'll just keep them and have them sprinkled with my ashes!!! I'm glad that my posting this has inspired others to think about circulated coins. There are some amazing finds and possibilities out there! It's like a treasure hunt! |
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Deb, that was a wonderful story about your parents. Thank you.
About what you might do with all those cents. My brother, a high level Raytheon engineer saved all his pocket change from the time he started working there in 1969. The only concession he made to his accumulation of coins was to sort them by denomination. He is still accumulating his pocket change. However, he had a dilemma about three years ago. He kept his cents in 5-gallon paint buckets and the weight of several of these buckets was causing the floor of the room in which they were stored to sag. So, his wife said something's gotta go (she gave him two choices, but I'll let the reader decide what they were). It happened my niece (my sister's daughter) just graduated from college about then, so as a graduation gift, my brother gave her a choice: an envelope with an unspecified amount of money in it OR her weight in pennies (cents, actually). My niece is a tiny little thing, can't weigh more than a hundred pounds, but since gambling seems to run a bit in our family, chose her weight in pennies. My brother promptly set up a plank on a pivot, put her on one end and started dishing out pennies on the other end. Now, I have no idea how much a 5-gal bucket of pennies weighs nor how many pennies are in a bucket, but she out-weighed the bucket by a fair amount, so my brother dug out a second bucket. Somewhere in the middle of the second bucket, my niece balanced out with the pennies. As far as I know, she has still not finished counting out and rolling the cents, so have no idea how much she actually got, but it had to be a couple hundred dollars anyway. And if she had chosen the envelope? Not a clue. My brother wouldn't say.
You might consider saving those cent rolls for the next generation...
Fred
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Copper ashes?Creative Deb haha :)
I love my circulated coins,they kinda tell a story all of their own about where they've been.They just appeal to me,but as you know I've been adding some proofs little by little to my collections.But I will always love the little "treasure hunt" :) sn31.
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WOW Deb.[:0] No wonder your back hurts.  Good Job. |
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Originally posted by Morgan Fred
Deb, that was a wonderful story about your parents. Thank you.
About what you might do with all those cents. My brother, a high level Raytheon engineer saved all his pocket change from the time he started working there in 1969. The only concession he made to his accumulation of coins was to sort them by denomination. He is still accumulating his pocket change. However, he had a dilemma about three years ago. He kept his cents in 5-gallon paint buckets and the weight of several of these buckets was causing the floor of the room in which they were stored to sag. So, his wife said something's gotta go (she gave him two choices, but I'll let the reader decide what they were). It happened my niece (my sister's daughter) just graduated from college about then, so as a graduation gift, my brother gave her a choice: an envelope with an unspecified amount of money in it OR her weight in pennies (cents, actually). My niece is a tiny little thing, can't weigh more than a hundred pounds, but since gambling seems to run a bit in our family, chose her weight in pennies. My brother promptly set up a plank on a pivot, put her on one end and started dishing out pennies on the other end. Now, I have no idea how much a 5-gal bucket of pennies weighs nor how many pennies are in a bucket, but she out-weighed the bucket by a fair amount, so my brother dug out a second bucket. Somewhere in the middle of the second bucket, my niece balanced out with the pennies. As far as I know, she has still not finished counting out and rolling the cents, so have no idea how much she actually got, but it had to be a couple hundred dollars anyway. And if she had chosen the envelope? Not a clue. My brother wouldn't say.
You might consider saving those cent rolls for the next generation...
Fred
Thats a great story Fred. |
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Fred: Thank YOU for sharing the story of your Brother - how creative!!!!!! I wonder what kind of "treasures" she found when she was going through them...or did she even look? hmmmmmmm
Yes, that is one of the reasons that my back bothers me, TLS5933. I get funny looks from the "guys" every time I pick the box up. That's the reason I'm going to split them into 50/50. I'm not suppose to lift anything according to my physical therapist but, that's another story! tee hee
Oh, and I have one of those 10 gallon jugs about half full of circulated pennies in Colorado to add to this "hoard" also! Oh dear!
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I don't know if my niece went through them or not. There HAD to have been a fair number of keepers in there! I had long advised my brother to screen them for collectibles, but he always demurred - he never had much interest in coin collecting. My niece showed more interest, but she's busy with a new career and social life, so I don't know how far my advice went.
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