Hi. I have a large penny collection containing 240 cents. Some are repeats. It has 183 out of 249 pennies ever made. 8 are Proof. Many are mint. If you have any idea of what the collection, part of it, or even a certain penny is worth, please tell me. Any information that you assume I don't know, you can tell me that too. Also, I can't upload the whole collection, so if you want to know if I have a certain penny, just ask.
Well, most of the money cents are in the first part of the series the 1909 s, 1909 s vdb, 1914 d and 1931 s are the major keys to the series. then there are semi keys which are worth more money but not nearly as much as the previous 1910 s, 1911 s, 1912 d, 1912 s , 1913 s, 1914 s, 1915 s, 1922 d, 1924 d, 1926 s. Most of the rest of the series through 58 are common enough ranging anywhere in value to 10 cents for a common coin in Good to a few dollars in higher grades. If we had a better idea of what you did and didn't have and what kind of condition it was in we would be able to provide you with a better estimate on wholesale and/or retail value.
Welcome!!! Hi, welcome to the forum! You might want to pick up a coin guide for a value/mintage reference. A guide book of United States Coins(The Official Red Book) can be purchased for around $15.00 a copy.
WELCOME TO THE FORUM. First of all I recognize those blue folders. Those are those Whitman folders for coins. Please get those coins out of there. Those are for kids and for not really any valuable coins. The process to make those is to place paper on a table, coat the entire sheet with glue, place the slotted cardboard on that, allow to dry and then cut as required. The problem here is the rear of all slots is glue. Many kids like that since a worn coin could fall out so they wet the slot with spit and the glud now holds the coins. Also, those slots are tapered to hold coins better. However, this means you must push the coin into the slots with usually your thumb. Although I've known people that use a rubber hammer for that. Next as already noted you may want to purchase something called the Red Book by Whitman Publishing. On Amazon or the Walmart Books web site. Walmart is usually the cheapest for that book. You should really know what you may have. If you don't want to invest in a book on coins just now, you may want to look up miscellaneous dates on places like the PCGS web site. Remember though the prices you see there are about 20 to 25% over stated. If in doubt as to an odd looking coin, you may want to either ask here or go to www.coppercoins.com web site. Attempt to put all your coins in either an Album with those sliding plastic pieces, plastic rolls or more of those 2x2's. Then sell those folders on ebay.
The blue ones are Whitman as described above. The newer ones, such as you show are better than the older ones as to the type of glue and paper. The older ones are nice for storing coins you hope will tone around the edges. I have never heard about the "spit" to glue that Carl mentions, but he is more experienced than me. The other albums seem to have plastic sliders to hold the coins in place. I have quite a few of all of these types still with coins just for organized storage of surplus but interesting coins. Take a moment to observe each coin, especially any hidden view, every so often , so you can spot any difficulty such as the beginning of corrosion. Any coin you view as more valuable should go into better storage and there are several threads here you can find using the "search" button above. Let me tell you that this group of Lincolns is an excellent way to learn the skills of grading, preservation, evaluation, and identification. This middle years of lincolns are sometimes underestimated as to difficulty of finding nice high grade coins, although they may show up in change or searched in rolls from the bank. Since this range covers late wheats and memorials, you can learn to grade both types.:smile Welcome and good looking! Jim
Hi Joby and weclome to the Forum! You have a very nice start on that cent collection and I hope you will complete it. As far as the value, it has a lot to do with the condition of the coins. You said that you have 8 proofs and many are mint but there is a wide gap in value between a MS 60 and a MS 70 so we have to determine where each cent falls in that scale. To do this with that many coins will take a lot of time becuase we will have to have clear close up pictures of each coin so that we can give you an accurate grade of that coin. The best way to help you determine the value of your collection is to help you learn how to grade you coins yourself. There are some very good books and website out there that will give you the information needed to grade your coins and the people on this site will be more then to happy also. As Just Carl has mention the redbooks and www.coppercoins.com are some very good guides. A few more are: The Complete Lincoln Cent Encyclopedia by Shane M. Anderson for about $2.95 at Amazon, A Guide Book of Lincoln Cents by Q. David Bowers about $15.95 also at Amazon. You can also try www.lincolncentresource.com. Using these sites and books will help you a lot and before you know it you will be on here helping us out on our cents.
Just in case anyone wants to know. The reason I know about spitting on the glue to make a coin stick in those folders is way, way back when I was a kid and collected coins, we all did that. Myself and other kids I knew that collected coins got them primarily from change and in many instances they were really worn. So they would sometimes fall out of those slots. So for some reason all us kids knew that the shinny stuff in the back of the slots was glue. We thought it was put there so us kids could spit on it to make our coins stay in place. Newer coins were so hard to put in thoes slots we too used a small, soft hammer. Oh and one more thing. As a rule, coins from change had to be cleaned because you never knew who handled them last. Nor what they did with thier hands.
You're off to a great start! Don't worry about the dollar value, just enjoy the fun of collecting them all! Good Luck
A fantastic collection. When I was filling out a LMC folder I had a hard time determining the 7 billion different 1982 types. I ended up finding a great website that had high quality pictures of each date variety. The composition varieties were slightly harder to distinguish, but a postal scale at a friends work allowed me to measure 1/100th of a gram, easily separating the pennies into zinc and copper varieties. If you have any issue with this, send me a message and I'll try to find that site again. Cheers!
