Because I was being sarcastic in my original post about how the coin dealer would act and I compared him to a realtor
The first image is of the buffalo nickels from the "undated" box. We found a couple we can read the dates on and 4-5 of them are rotated die. The bottom nickel is stained brown... should we leave it like that? The second image is several Indiana quarters that I found in a box of some things that I inherited after my aunt passed away. A few of them have some weird brown stuff of them and all of them have a weird coloring to them.
You should NOT clean the buffalo, NEVER CLEAN COINS unless you are properly trained. They can loose a lot of value. May I ask how much you paid and you may waNt to buy some 2x2 cardboard or plastic flips if you dolnt already and you may also want to buy some plastic sleeves and put them in a binder. If you need used sleeves or new cardboard and plastic 2x2s for all us coin sizes available
You should NOT clean the buffalo, NEVER CLEAN COINS unless you are properly trained. They can loose a lot of value. May I ask how much you paid and you may waNt to buy some 2x2 cardboard or plastic flips if you dolnt already and you may also want to buy some plastic sleeves and put them in a binder.
Preston does have some of the 2 x 2 cardboard display thingies (technical term and I bought him the binder sleeves to put in a binder. I paid 4/$1, so $3 for 12 buffalo nickels. Good price? or no? I did buy the buffalo nickel Whitman folder as well. Should these be put in the 2x2's? are they that valuable? Should we try the nic-a-date to bring out the year? I honestly just let him look through because I saw another member on here say he looked thru the undated ones and found some good ones. Preston was also over the moon because they are his first buffalo nickels. Cheap old nickels + happy kid = score one for momma (in my opinion)
Yes that is a good price, the rotated dies may be valuable (can you post pics). you might see about guiding him into coin roll hunting, I am a kid and I love coin roll hunting the name says it, you buy rolls of coins (I would start him off with penny's) from the bank or stores like Walmart or Walgreens or albertsons, and search them for coins you like or errors or want to keep or old coins, I have been searching for about three months at the most, and have searched about 60,000 pennys and about 10,000 nickels and have found silver nickels and a 1887 liberty head nickel worth like 20 bucks, if you are interested in Crhing (coin roll hunting) feel free to ask me more questions. Eps
Thank you! It's funny you mention CRH because I took him around to 4 banks and a credit union yesterday and today. None of them had new rolls of pennies (which he's dying to have) but we bought two rolls at each place. He came home and ripped them open. He found a few wheats, nothing really special IMO but we filled in a few slots in his whitman folder so that was cool. There were a few s mints he didn't I've so that's kind of exhilarating for him still the credit union said they could order 2012 pennies for us but the lady called today and said they cant request new coin but to try two other large banks in the same city. So we will do that next week. I swear if I could find 2012 rolls I'd buy a whole box lol I don't know what I'd do with them storage-wise... What would one do to preserve the uncirculated condition of new rolls? I will try to put those buffs in 2x2s tomorrow so you can see the rotation. It's not much but of course preston ate that up When the Indians head is level and it's turned over the buffalo looks to be leaning forward on his front legs. The "f" of five cents is kind of tilted as well.
I once came across a whole box of new penny rolls, if I find another I will contact you before anyone else, how much would you pay for a whole box? I dolnt know how to keep their condition intact but on Monday I will try to go to the bank to find some new rolls of coin.
It is sort of ironic, back when I started collecting when I was like 8-9 or so I can remember doing lots of CRH, back then we could still find lots of 40% in halves. Of course my mother really thought my collecting coins was more of a burden. Then I moved on into the addiction and stopped CRH and buying from dealers, then auction houses, coin shows etc. Somewhere along the line about 6-7 years ago I started doing CRH again to hoard up all the bronze cents. Then I added in nickels and halves. And CRH is the main focus of my adventure into the hobby. I think I find a lot more wheats, IHC(6 of them) even Liberty nickels and Buffalos that I ever did some 30+ years ago. I think it is due to the coin machines, ie CoinStar etc. Back on topic here. For CRH, start small accounts for your son in these local institutions. Some tellers get bonus points for opening new accounts. Having an account is like having one foot in the door. Be nice, persistent, don't mind being more friendly than usual. I KNOW FOR A FACT that some tellers will hold stuff back that they will NOT let anyone walking in have. From my experience with little things like this: Are held for their favourite customers - the ones that don't mind going and getting a box of candy for the tellers to share. The customer who is never demanding etc gets the silver, and the goodies like the box of cents back a couple of months ago that had over 100 1943 steel cents that the teller refused to sell to anybody but me.
If you take Preston to a coin show they usually have activities were the kids can win free coins. A coin show I go to has a auction were they give kids play money to bid on coins they can keep. Even walking through the coin show dealers might even give him some coins. Good luck glad to see I'm not the only kid into coin collecting.:welcome:
Sounds like both you and Preston had a wonderful time at the coin shop. Thats what it's all about. Trust me when I say that the excited feeling when buying a coin or a note that one really likes never fades no matter how old we get or how many pieces we buy. Guy
Sounds like Preston has got a pretty solid start to his collection! Several members have already said it but I'll just say I started taking my daughter to coin shows when she was about that age and she always came home with nice freebies. I don't know if it's a national program but here in Texas we have a program called Coins for A's where the school aged kids can send in a copy of report cards and get coins for A's.
