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<p>[QUOTE="Metalman, post: 31337, member: 1454"]Hello Joesmom</p><p><br /></p><p>to go thru a pile of coins is a daunting thing, the redbook will give you some of the known varieties of all the denoms ,,, but !!!! each coin must be examined, My method involves three catagories, </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins I may wish to add to my circulated collection ,in my case that would be any wheat cents,,some of the Memorials and some of the dimes,,I especially keep any Philly coins of the current coinage that are in good shape they are hard to come by here for some reason. I also keep anything decent from 1970 back especially all the S mint coins</p><p><br /></p><p>Second: any errors that I may find, I have started keeping all anomolies,, Doubled, machine or hub, filled die with completely missing design or lettering,,</p><p>you see what I mean here.</p><p><br /></p><p>It kind of developes itself as to what you may want to keep.</p><p><br /></p><p>and third a pile to be rolled and returned !!</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps a little, I go thru about 5,000 cents a week, but that is just me !![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Metalman, post: 31337, member: 1454"]Hello Joesmom to go thru a pile of coins is a daunting thing, the redbook will give you some of the known varieties of all the denoms ,,, but !!!! each coin must be examined, My method involves three catagories, Coins I may wish to add to my circulated collection ,in my case that would be any wheat cents,,some of the Memorials and some of the dimes,,I especially keep any Philly coins of the current coinage that are in good shape they are hard to come by here for some reason. I also keep anything decent from 1970 back especially all the S mint coins Second: any errors that I may find, I have started keeping all anomolies,, Doubled, machine or hub, filled die with completely missing design or lettering,, you see what I mean here. It kind of developes itself as to what you may want to keep. and third a pile to be rolled and returned !! Hope this helps a little, I go thru about 5,000 cents a week, but that is just me !![/QUOTE]
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