Coin collection

That’s insane... have you searched all of them? There’s gotta be a several hundreds worth of coins in there... maybe find a few thousand worth of error coins

 

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I have not searched any of them. I'm not that "type" of coin collector. I "hoard coins". I do collect older coins. The more modern stuff post 1900s I just hoard.


though I now look for my MAJOR Doubled Dies when I sort my pennies and stuff.

 

Nice!

 

nowadays all the cents are stored in separate containers per each decade (cents are pre/post 82).
One corner of stuff. ...
but since covid I've gone to nearly 100% electronic payments. i used to use cash all the time and keep all the $1s and change.

 

I'm enjoying this thread. I hope people will keep adding on. I didn't start my collection until 1996, when my Dad died. His collection was a mish-mash of coins. Few are rare, but he did have a lot of Morgan, Peace, and Eisenhower dollars. When I got my share of the collection, I got a terrible itch to start my own collection. I save all the coins I get, no matter what they are. I use to be a comic book collector, but when my son wanted to go to college, we didn't have the money and were too "rich" to get assistance, so I sold all of my comics and they paid for his college education. Anyway, I had about 9 boxes for comics and now each as their purpose. I have 2 boxes for U.S. Mint coins, a box for all my foreign coins and currency. Then, the other boxes are filled with raw coins. I also keep my slabs together with my raw coins. I love to go into them and look at them. Everyday is a new day and I will look through a box and document all I know about them. I keep all of that in binders that are in the bookcase above my desk and computer.
I thought comics were the best hobby, but I found they had their purpose. Now, I LOVE THIS HOBBY. Thank all of you for teaching me about coins.

 

I went from here there and everywhere to vaults and safes. I also log all my coins and currency. Great start but make sure to log them and keep them in a safe and secure place. Thanks for the post good luck.

 

Ha, same with me!

 

Here’s my 1960-82 copper penny collection


These took 3 hours to sort

 

Covid-19 has some impact but is not the cause of a coin shortage IMO. I don't recall the specific details of the story but in the mid-late 80's, there was a guy in California that passed. His family, upon searching his estate, found that he had been saving Lincoln cents for quite some time, going back for many years. Presumably for the copper value. Anyway, they found in his garage some 50 Rubbermaid trash cans full. I can't recall the estimated face value but the total weight was something around 5 tons. The cans were the 40 gallon size.

 

Holly crap!... we’re the reason (us coin collectors) are the reason we have a coin shortage

 

I don't think so. I carried almost $600.00 of rolled change to my bank a month ago. Probably have another $500.00 or so in quarters that I haven't rolled. Us coin guys do tend to hoard a bit, but I don't think that is the sole reason for this.

 

Not us, coin collectors. That guy, maybe.

 

A few comments/questions:
1. No 1959s?
2. Now you just need to separate the 1982s into the 7 different types.
3. It took me a while to read what the plaque on your wall says. When I finally figured it out, I realized I wasted my time!!! LOL.

 

I started collecting in the late 50s...pocket change and sorting through bank rolls to fill Whitman folders. Saved all the buffalo nickels and mercury dimes, but that really cut into my ballcard money. Occasionally I had enough money to get a silver dollar or two from the bank, as well.

By the time I was 14, I had accumulated a dresser drawer full of coins. I grew up on a farm. One night after coming home from a FB game, we saw a vehicle going over the horizon of the field behind our house. I ran in the open back door and found the house ransacked. The thieves had taken the dresser drawer with all my coins and wrapped it up with the bedsheet.

So, even though I was dejected, I started over and accumulated a few coins over the next 20 or so years. When I started to get more serious in the mid-80s, I found that old stash which I had stored in a fishing tackle box. That group isn't worth much, but it remains in that container to this day...in a safe.

 

Yeah I remember the skids of burlap bags

 

It's on the Registry of Hysterical Places . . . . .

Z

 

I had been collecting sequentially number currency and peanut butter jars full of coins. I had to deposit the coins in the credit union's coin machine (no charge) where I got a receipt for the coins. (I had counted the coins and it came to the same amount in the coin machine except for some error coins that I took home. When I deposited all of that, it came to over $5,000 which I deposited in one of our money markets. My wife taught the teller and she was very nice and helpful. I had fun doing it. I felt sorry for a man that was waiting for the coin machine.

 

Oh my god... XD... I didn’t even realize you could read that... That’s freaking funny!!! Yeah... I got that as a gift from my grandfather... I love that! I also have 1, 1959... I just had it put away