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I just speed sort them. I put any date I want to look at closer in a tube and throw the non needed in the bag to be cashed. When I do the tubes, I take my time and scope each coin. I do this technique with all denominations, except small dollars. I search them one by one, since most dates and mint marks are on the side of the coin. If I sort them by date, I have 24 tray fishing tackle boxes to sort out by date and mint mark. I have 15 boxes, dated 1909 to 2018 with P, D, S. They can be used for any denomination being searched.

 

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Thanks for the advice,I'll pick up a few fishing boxes tomorrow,happy hunting.

 

My town is small (<1Mil) so I believe all halves deposited at different banks are mixed and then sent out to a variety of banks regardless of where the halves were deposited.

 

That makes a lot more sense too. Otherwise we’d see the same things so many times

 

nothing like finding a semi key day Jefferson nickel in your pocket change

 

Well, by the time they get to a roll and in your hands the coins have been circulated and probably machine rolled. The machine rolled coins are pressed up against each other pretty tight. Which has its pros and cons.( ex: less rubbing from lack of give space/ possible scratching from metal machine parts). Once I’ve opened a roll I generally spread them out and seperate modern Jefferson’s from pre 2003. One thing I do that not a lot of people probably do is seperate all the 70s and 60s nickels. I do this to try to make full sets for those decades, as sooner or later they will be hard to find. I’ll also start the 80s once I’ve completed the 2 60s I’m working on. ( Dang 60philadelphia is allusive!) but yeah, unless the roll is uncirculated , like a new 2018, I wouldn’t think anything your doing by sorting them is going to cause much damage. The only ones I don’t stack are any gem specimens I find or ones that will fill a hole in my books, but this is primarily to keep the date visible so I don’t accidentally toss it into the trash piles. I used a foam board (bought at the 99cent store) and drew in seperate sections for each type of coin. It really helps keeps things organized, especially for saving full decades. I’ll post it a little later tonight.

 

Great shape for a circulated 38. I’ve been looking for 38S for weeks lol.

 

Very helpful,now I can really start to put a dent in these things.

 

Haha. Yeah sometimes I try to get through the rolls as quick as I can. I generally I get under 30$ of rolls at a time so if I can go through them quick enough I can keep exchanging them until the bank closes. The tellers there open new boxes for me and just in case I mark any rolls I’ve searched and returned .

 

I started this a week ago and my wiff is about to kill me lol. I'm going to make a tote with slots for years and put toy racetracks to buckets inside.1 year old in the house!

 

A friend showed me these coins today! I’ve included some photos.

 

found this a minute ago,I've heard about these somewhere.

 

Nice. For some reason I love barber coins. I have 3 barber dimes myself(1 “o” from New Orleans) a barber half, and I have four barber quarters comming in the mail! I got the four quarters for 18$ from Apmex. Silver wise not the best deal but still nice to finally add that third type of barber coin to my collection!

 

Hmm. Maybe it’s possible you heard of a doubles die variety or something. All in all a reg 61D is not that special, although yours is in great shape. Def book worthy. Since your new to coin hunting I’d def buy some books. There about 3-4$ each off Amazon. You’ll notice mordern (‘64 & on) books are pretty easy to complete and look great!
When it comes to Lincoln cents I looks for these :
‘59
‘60
‘61
‘62
‘63 (^ all plain ( Philadelphia))
Then ‘68-‘73 ( all San Francisco)
These are the rarest Lincoln MEMORIAL cents, each with less than 1 billion minted, unlike all their counter parts(excluding 2009s) When the US gets rid of the penny as a currency and everyone melts their copper Lincoln’s I think these will be the new Keydates for a new generation of collectors.

 

I bought 3 books today,1909 through.I have alot of all those early coins and I separated them into 50s,60s,and so on. And I found some real nice 2009s.I start tomorrow filling the in. Any advice which coins to put in them.like I have some woodys of some old years.should I put them in the books.

 

Well, the first objective is to fill the book. Now, if you have spare books for things such as nicer coins or toned coins only that is also Good. For example, I have three Lincoln head penny books. One book is for the wheat cents 1909 through 1958. The next book is 1959 to 1994. My third book is from 1959 till 1982, meaning the copper memorial reverses . In this third book I only keep very good to mint state coin’s or ones that have great Luster or toning.My advice would be to fill as many holes as possible however if you have a particular coin that you are unhappy with make note of it and be on the look out to replace it when you can. I’m at work now but will try to send photos of my books later tonight when I get home.

 

Thank you so much for explaining this to me.I have the Bicentennial folder coming in the mail.I was going to save it for all my really nice coins so I'll keep all those to the side untill it gets here. And id really like to see your books,to give me an idea of how they should look.

 

Not a great pic, but here's how I sort cents - small containers for the wheat dates I find most often 1930s-1950s, similar containers for other '59s, 2009s, and foreign coins, one of the blue lidded tubs takes the 60-82 coppers for later rolling and the other is for "rejects" to get dumped back at the bank. If there are any coins that look particularly nice, I'll put them aside for separate handling. For run of the mill circulated coins, I figure they've been handled more roughly than the treatment I'm giving them.

 

$25 BWR Cents: 36, 44 (x3), 45, 46, 50-D, 51-D, 53, 53-D, 55-D (x2), 56, 56-D, 57, 57-D, 58 (x2), 58-D

$150 CWR Nickels: 38, 40 (x2), 41 (x3), 41-D (x2), 41-S, 42, 46 (x2), 46-S, 47 (x2), 48, 49 (x2), 52 (x3), 53 (x3), 53-D, 55-D, 54, 54-D, 55-D, 57, 58-D (x3), 59-D, and 43-D and 44-S war nickels. Also a "sandblasted" nickel that has reacted with something to take on a hammered copper appearance that just looks neat.

$445 CWR Dimes: 47, 64, 64-D

 

HAHA, that's not small. I live in a town with less than 10,000 people and we're the largest town for about a 45 minute drive. We have 7 banks and not a single one of them has a coin counting machine. The tellers have to manually count all coins that are cashed in. I'm worried about doing too much CRHing because it's a real burden on the banks in this area. Right now I'm actually cashing in the little bit I do at coinstar for a no fee amazon gift card