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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 24640373, member: 102022&quot;]Hey [USER=114026]@Bryan Dillard[/USER] I&#039;m sorry for your loss. May your grief be brief and your memories long lasting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this doesn&#039;t come off as harsh. It is certainly not meant to be. Your fathers stash of cents looks very similar to one that I&#039;ve accumulated over the course of numerous decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two water jugs. One contains cents, like your dads&#039;. And the other contains all other denominations of coins. My collectible circulation finds are always separated and never make it into those water jugs. All those jugs contain are my accumulated pocket change that is worth nothing more than face value. Basically it&#039;s my daily contribution to a rainy day, have fun, spend as you will, party fund.</p><p><br /></p><p>I separated the coins as I did because cents just take up too much room. Are too heavy when it&#039;s time to move them. And definitely too voluminous to have mixed in with my other slush fund jar. I wouldn&#039;t want to have to sort/separate them after years of accumulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see any wheat back (pre 1959) cents in your pix. Those are typically the cents collectors would focus on. There are absolutely some collectible memorial back cents 1959 and newer, but even with those taken into consideration, yours are severely damaged with corrosion. This would most likely render them virtually worthless as collectible coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can understand wanting to keep them as a reminder of your dear dad. As a matter of fact, the recommendation by Larry, [USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER] jumps out at me as a spectacular memorial in your dads honor. Another aspect of the art project with the cents could be that if you left the coins untreated, as is, and don&#039;t do anything to preserve or prevent further corrosion, the &#039;finished&#039; art project would never actually be finished. It would continue to change due to the progression of verdigris on the project as a whole. Ever changing. IMO a very interesting component of the memory itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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