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Message:: [QUOTE="Bones-65, post: 8228748, member: 136030"]Story time, but on topic!My elderly mother of 92 passed away last May, well she had a bit of a penny hoard of around $30.00 mostly Wheat Cents.Well for something to do she would set and clean and roll pennies. She thought it made them look pretty, and to her clean was better.So, she would collect them, sort them into small containers by the decade, 30's 40's 50's 60's ect....... and once she had enough to clean and roll that's what she'd do, then she would write what decade they were on the side of the roll.When she passed away I was awarded the job of going through her pennies to which I didn't find a single keeper for my collection, and in her will her Estate was to be split 3-Ways with her 3 son's. Bla.bla...........So, as I went through the coins it was obvious which ones mom went after with a pencil eraser LOL! and yes! a pencil eraser will leave abrasive lines on copper cents, I would say they would have been graded as Harshly Cleaned at best (ruined).To finish the story,I went through all her pennies and I was allowed to keep or do whatever I wanted with them (agreement made with both my brothers). I sorted them as Mom had done by the decade, I rolled them very nicely, I carefully folded the ends of the tubes and I glued them and clamped them FLAT! I marked the rolls 1930's 1940's 1950's 60's ect... and I took them to the bank and cashed them in. The proceeds was split between us 3 son's. These rolls are out there in circulation and if you roll hunters find them they'll be easily identified to where they came from with the glued flaps and marked rolls, they came from "Betty's Hoard"There is no KEY dates!They've been searched!Lots of them have been "Harshly Cleaned" LoL!Now I didn't spend any time looking for error cents, like RPM's or die cracks.[/QUOTE]

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