1960 Lincoln coffee can pick

I’ve got quite a few new pennies from this period. I can just imagine my grandparents tossing them in a jar only to be transferred to a barrel in their basement.
Later three kids, including my mom, dividing them up.
And 62 years later I’m looking at them.
This one just popped out of the crowd.

 

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Yes for sure. All the ones I post from 2000 and older from my dad as well. It is interesting looking and find many that barely was touched. My mom had saved the new quarters and ATB etc. Have fun going through them. I posted on, well I call it “my” thread tonight. “ Pam’s finds for your enjoyment”. I should have called it a little if this or that lol. Nice Lincoln’s you have.

 

You too. I’m following your work.

 

Thanks! I just like when I find something and yes it makes you wonder what they were thinking daily putting their change in cans or jars.

 

Yeah. A penny was something back in the day. Especially for people that didn’t have much.

 

Yes… dad would always say a loaf of bread was 5 cents, a lot then.

 

Here’s my 2 cents, knowing full well most folks will insist on giving me change…

…in 1960 I got a toy metal rocket for Christmas, from my grandmother. It was a coin/piggy bank that had a spring-loaded trigger on the side. You placed a coin on the spring and pushed a button that triggered the coin upward at a very high speed into a slot in the nose cone. I mostly saved pennies, and it took me 2 years to fill that rocket, that’s all I could afford being nine years old.

But I wasn’t focused on saving memorial pennies, because I was getting Indian Head, buffalo nickels and mercury dimes from daily change. I did manage to put many memorials in there along the way, but wheat ears were plentiful, back then.

So you ask: what was I thinking then? Saving those coins? I was putting them in that rocket and a cigar box…Hav-a-Tampa cigars. But once they were in there I didn’t think about them, discovering them again 20 years later.

This is when I became focused on preserving the coins I had, because I kept thinking what a shame it was that the IHC, buffalos and mercs were so severely worn, and what a marvel they would have been had they been saved and protected sooner.

So, my friends, that is what pushed me over the edge and caused me to save and preserve many coins, because I had found them in great conditions.

I joined Coin Talk in Oct. 2017, and after my bubble was burst gently, and I learned a whole bunch, I began purging thousands of coins that I should not have saved. I discovered Whitman albums, coffee cans, jars and paper sleeves did not protect and preserve coins adequately. So now I use flips and capsules to preserve everything, and I don’t miss a wink of sleep.

The OP cents are good looking and need to be preserved accordingly when you find them. If you are like me, it becomes more of a mission than an obsession.

Happy New Year to all!…Spark

 

Thanks for the great story. Cigar box? I remember those. Hard card board? My dad was born in Tampa. There were factories there and many worked there he said. So neat about the rocket. Do you still have it? But then I think about all the things we had as toys etc. my brother’s baseball cards and comic books. Again great story. Awesome to be honest. Happy New Years as well! And thanks for putting up with my, well not so great of posts lol. Pam

 

Thanks for sharing.
In my few short weeks at this I've popped a lot of coins out of old Whitman albums and found them to affected by the decades of storage. I'm putting things in tubes temporarily so as to not make matter worse.

 

Use Modern Chemistry to help. I use Amazon as a source, but some local hardware or craft stores might also have copper foil strips ( some have adhesive backing to stick on whatever you store coins in ( especially good for copper containing coins).

Use very fine emery paper to scratch up a length of the foil lightly. The copper foil will be more attractive to corrosive chemical molecules than the copper alloy coins. Works great within a safe. Similar function as in "Intercept" coin products, but not as expensive. Change or resand the copper surface when it turns brownish.
IMO, Jim

 

Located.
So you just place them in the safe? In any particular proximity to copper coins?

 

It is to some degree determined by how many times the safe or other container or box is opened and the size of the cavity ( allows new air which you don't want replacing so when copper turns dull appearing , time to resand or replace ). Using the adhesive type you can stick to the inner surface of the safe if you wish or on the inside of the boxes. If you live in a desert like me, I only replace once a year if it reacted, so very seldom.
If you keep the house at low humidity, very seldom I would guess, but go by the color on the copper strip. If you want to put them into the box , container, etc. directly, get the non adhesive copper strips and sand both sides. The "Intercept " products at the coin stores are much more convenient and excellent, but cost per coin is much higher. IMO, Jim

 

Thanks for the info.
I can certainly store copper in a separate safe that is opened less often.