Coin collecting when I was a kid

Oh how I wish I would have had the knowledge I do now about how to handle and store coins. As a kid (60's) I pulled a lot of keepers doings roll searches, but the way I handled them and stored them in Whitman's, well lets say was not good. I am basically replacing all the coins I originally had with coins I am now buying. Needless to say I have a bunch of those coins in plastic tubes and my keepers (that I am now buying) in Intercept Shields.

 

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Don't feel too bad, I still have a bunch of coins in Whitmans. It is retro coin collecting!

 

Can't replace those memories though.

 

That's what got me in this hobby again.

 

I only had wheats in my whitmans.

 

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Still got some o' those Whitman folders from my youth Tex. Maybe sacrilege on this forum, but I ain't swapping 'em out. Time piece. Moment frozen. Times way gone by, only to reflect upon once every so often.......

 

Hmm i have all my collection in dansco/folders why is that bad? (got my Half kennedys,New quarters, wheaties, New nickels/pennys) I will start buying buffalo,barber ect... when i get a job but why are they bad in putting them in folders?

 

As I said I am putting them in Intercept Shields which are first class and have mylar covers over the coin. The Whitman's had no cover and all the coins just did not preserve their original state.

 

My thoughts exactly !

 

My Uncle Ray got me started searching penny rolls when he told me that he would give me $25 for a 1914-D it if I found one in 1959. You could buy a grocery cart full of groceries for $18 to $20 in 1959. I never found the penny but mother searched dime rolls and I also helped her look and found a 1916-D that I would have graded fine by the red book.

 

I dunno.... I mean, if the coins were really Mint State, and if you really wanted to keep the mint bloom and mint luster, then, yes, no amount of conservation is enough.

But when you get right down to it, one circulated coin is pretty much like another, toned or not, and toning is a natural consequence of collecting. The only alternative is to erode and polish the coin via circulation. And we all have nicely circulated flat things that speak of commerce hand to hand.

 

I think most of us could say that. I've transferred them all over to higher quality albums like Dansco, but I did the exact same thing as you once.