Well, since I've come back to coins I've been sorting change with my 3 1/2 year old daughter. I went to my parents house Monday and my mother has always kept pocket change(she got me started on coins when I was little). and I noticed she had a bit of a backlog of change laying around. My mom's eyesight hasn't been the best for several years, and my mom goes on to tell me she just can't see to organize her coins anymore and says..."here...take it all and let the baby have fun"
I go back in the back bedroom and would you believe it....an entire dresser full of change. I'm like this is gonna take a while. pennies,nickels, dimes, quarters, dollar coins...everything.
In all told it's around $400 in pocket change probably backlogged atleast 10 years.
My mom had some
State Quarter books, so I told her, I'd fill her out a P and D set and bring it back to her. I'm also filling out a set for the kid.
problem number 1...even after filling out the set for my mother and my daughter, I have about $190 worth of left over
State Quarters, including an Arkansas bank roll. Don't know if they are worth keeping or should I go change em in an get some boxes of pennies for the kid to sort.
Problem #2 there are a couple other bank rolls. $2 handshake nickels, and a roll of Washington dollar coins. Thinking I may keep these since they're machine rolled, not sure.
Have tons of other series reverse nickels(maybe 4-6 bucks worth) was thinking just turn those in for something. Went through the rest of the nickels and pulled pre 1960 stuff, and wrapped the other $20 or so bucks worth with intent to change in for something else.
Sorted the pennies, pulled wheats, and coppers, and BU zincs. The kid is having a ball swimming in the other $25 ish dollars worth of zincs.
Looked through the dimes, no silver, just wrapped the $50 or so worth.
Checked the handful of halves and dollars for anything interesting, there wasn't so will probably turn those in too.
Questions to all here, is....Anything else I should check for before changing in the excess? Should I turn in the $190 bucks worth of duplicate
State Quarters? Good call to keep the bank rolls? I know I have some more stuff to search as I just found some more pennies from my grandmother(she hoarded change too), look mostly BU copper Memorial cents. I'm sure I'll find more stuff as I go through my parents storage room. I also found a bunch of modern commemorative silver, and a 1999 gold Washington commemorative in my grandmothers stuff, that ended up with me. I'm like a kid in a candy store sorting this stuff.
Posted 01/28/2011 11:47 pm
