We found new pennies! The kids had dentist appts today so we went CRH after. We went in to buy our two rolls and she takes te dollar and gives us two rolls. The ends of both rolls were shiny so I turned them around to see the other side and sure enough shiny on that side too! I asked to buy the rest of the rolls. I joked with her asking how they got new rolls because nobody ever gets new rolls. She said it was a fluke. Whatever it is I really don't care! So now I would like to know how to store rolls of coins to protect them
I have a couple of rolls I keep in Tupperware containers. Food containers (good quality ones) are inert and safe for coins. Guy
There are coin tubes out there, but I'm not sure which ones are innert. I'm sure others will chime in to help.
I have some gladware lol I am enjoying this! It's the thrill of the hunt lol I told Preston the 42nd bank must be the charm! 4 banks last week. 20 banks on Monday. 8 on Tuesday. 7 on Wednesday. And more today. Most of the tellers have been nice. One was rude because she was a collector too. I had to really pry to even get her to allow Preston to look at the kennedy halves. She's like "those are nothing" then she proceeds to tells us that she collects anything good that she sees. Awesome now we know to skip this bank. Thanks for the heads up.
One thing I like about roll searching, you can find cool coins, wheats, silvers, pre-64 nickels, with little or no cost. If a roll has nothing cool in it, it's still worth what you paid for it.
Green18's suggestion about using a quality zip-lock baggie is good advice. The paper roll may contain chemicals including sulfur which over many years may tarnish the cents. Yes, there are inert coin tubes available but perhaps you might consider having more fun with the cents. If they are all the same date & you just want to put them away, then that's fine of course. You might consider separating them by grade & only keep the highest grade coins. It might be fun, profitable, and a good exercise in learning to grade mint state coins. If they consist of mixed dates, then consider sorting through them keeping the highest grade of each date & mint mark. Whitman makes inexpensive coin folders that are designed for this kind of collecting fun. Those same folders got me started in collecting a long time ago. Today I treasure my Whitman folders. They taught me the relative rarity of certain dates and taught me how to grade different coin series. Whatever you do, have fun. This photo depicts a Whitman coin folder.
Don't buy boxes from the Mint!!! http://www.jpscorner.com/Storage_Boxes_Bank_Rolls_and_Tubes.htm Chris
If you are handling red cents, teach Preston to handle them only by the edge never touching the obverse or reverse surfaces. The oils from your fingers will tarnish the coins and this will be apparent when Preston views the same coin in his collection 10 years from now. Also avoid talking over the red cents. People sometimes say "talk about your coins not over your coins". Little droplets of saliva may cause black spots to appear on Preston's nice red cents.
Personally, I would validate that the rolls are all the same date/mm combination before investing in storage media.
Thank you! I appreciate that advice! These coins *should* all be 2012. I have not ripped one open yet to check. Preston does have a Whitman folder that we are trying to fill in little by little. It's so hard though when we find a wheat penny because I'd rather him put it in a 2x2 than in the folder; I feel those are getting very rare (or at least harder to find in circulation) and should be treated as such. We have some plastic craft boxes that we have been sorting the pennies into by year. (I'll post a pic) From there I'd like Preston to research the year and see what errors exsist and see if any are double die, double strike, etc. Then choose 3-5 of the best and card them for his collection. I told him to never touch the face or tail of the coin and to handle it like a CD or DVD... only by the edge. He does very well. I gave him some gloves, but they are of course too big On the subject of cases: Will keeping the pennies in the wrapper cause toning and is this a desired effect? Assuming the rolls of pennies are new uncirculated 2012's will taking them out of the wrapper to check the mints devalue them in any way as long as they are handled with appropriate care? You guys must be getting tired of all my questions by now lol I have one VERY inquisitive little boy.
How many rolls do you have, if you have five or more, than open one and check them for a date/mm aNd return them to bank. No one wants individual uncirc 2012 penny's! Until at least 2112. I get both plastic and paper rolled cents so if yours are paper, if there is a back or front of a 2012 penny on both ends of the roll than they are uncirc. 2012 penny's. No one prefers toning on rolls of new penny's, the reason most buy them is to check for errors in uncirc condition. Only the end penny's will get toned unless airtight sealed. Also, wheats( unless VERY good condition) dolnt need two by twos, I have found like 400 wheats searching for like two months, and keep all average ones in a plastic box, not anything special. If you find a 1887 nickel like I did though than that's worthy of a 2x2. May I ask how much you pay for them, and do you have any plastic flips?
I have quite a few rolls. Let's just say I bought the rest of the box when I saw they were 2012 I paid FV at the bank.
