Oh no!!!

My Error/Variety 2x2 storage box is full! I literally cannot stuff another coin into it...so...

What should I do next?

Let's have a poll!

 

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Oh darn I can only vote for 1? I would say do a happy dance, post your highlights here, and then set it aside and crank out another box...

 

I was definitely thinking of Baseketball when I wrote that. It's been quite a while since I've just looked through it, so it might be fun to see what's inside.

 

sir....you don't take them out semi-regularly, rub them in counterclockwise circles if they are silver, clockwise if they are gold, polish all of the air-tites, straighten the coins' placement in all OGP, read the COAs, re-stack and tetris your SDB/safe, etc?

yeah. i do that. so what.

 

Ha!

 

#1

 

Happy dance!

 

Happy dance! (then post it for sale or get another box)
Disco!

 

disco inferno

 

I do this with my coins. I fill up a box, and when say Roman Imperial, Sogdian, or a Hunnic box is full start another one. I will be honest I pay more attention to the current purchases, the ones in the "current" box more than the "complete" boxes. Filling up a box is almost like completing a set. It kind of feels like an accomplishment and a letdown at the same time, and once you are done you do not have as much wish to open the complete boxes anymore.

Maybe its just me, but that is how I view it.

 

Do a happy dance then start on the next box. Same here as Medoraman, I fill up a box or complete a set it goes on the shelf and the next one is started. More focus on the new, but every once in a while an old box or album gets pulled out to be looked over and remember the fun of filling it.

 

Start a new box...

 

It depends on what you consider errors and varieties.

Chris

 

Pictures or it didn't happen.

 

Come on now. At least a partial list if your goodies...

 

Chris,

It's mainly filled with varieties (I think most of the errors I have there are mint clips and off-center strikes, nothing too exciting, just what I've found in circulation or picked up at auctions within other lots.) I think I'd consider the normal definition of varieties: DD, OMM/RPM, RPD, and Die Varieties like the Type B Reverse quarters. Is that what you would consider as errors and varieties?

 

Empty the box to make room for new ones and send them to me for "safekeeping".

Bruce

 

Ha ha ha you will notice I intentionally did NOT put "Take pictures of everything and post them here" as a poll choice...

Some of the best ones I've found have been posted on my website, though, on the "Cherrypicking" page. I don't still have all of them (I traded the 1970 "No S" Proof Roosevelt dime, for example) but I think everything on that page is in this box...unless it was worth slabbing, in which case it's in my "keeper" box.

 

Doug,

I spent a little time last night making a list. I think it's interesting that I was very thorough with my descriptions on some, and not so much on others. This probably just means that I found the vaguely described coins earlier on, and the thoroughly described ones more recently...

But I'll wait to see how the poll shakes out.

 

My only reason for making that comment is due to the plethora of threads received here about "errors" & "varieties". I think you get my drift. It appears that you are more than capable of differentiating between these and "circulation junk".

SUGGESTION: Why not start one box for errors and one box for varieties?

Chris