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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 1239915, member: 15062&quot;]If you have 5 gallons of coins there must be thousands.&nbsp; Don&#039;t expect to do everything at one time.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, the basics, separate by type, then for each type, separate by decade.&nbsp; It might be helpful to have small butter tubs or Tupperware containers to hold each group.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can pick out any silver coins and store them separately.&nbsp; You probably won&#039;t have a great number of them so it will be easier to search through them separately.&nbsp; Look for 1949(P) and any 1930s quarters.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For pennies in the 30&#039;s only the 31s is worth picking out.&nbsp; From the 40&#039;s through 1982 they have a metal value of 2.7 cents each.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 1960 small date has a small premiumIn the 90s group you can look for the Close AM 92 and the wide AM 98, 99 and 2000.</p><p><br /></p><p>For nickles, I wouldn&#039;t bother with any except the 1939D and the 42/43/44 war nickles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any post 1964 dimes I would just spend.&nbsp; Same with post 1964 quarters.&nbsp; Same with post 1964 halves, except 1965 through 197o which are 40% silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>This all assumes that the vast majority of what you have is regular circulated coinage.&nbsp; Most has no premium except as noted above - unless you want to spend the hundreds of hours it would take to microscopically examine each and every coin for varieties and errors.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most pre-modern design coins will have some small to great premium value (as long as a date shows) but you can sort them all separately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Find a Red Book or some other price reference and go through each tub you&#039;ve separated one at a time picking out the ones that may have extra value.&nbsp; It might be fun to get a few cheap cardboard albums and see if you can fill any of them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Few coins without dates have any value above face or melt, except maybe missing leg Buffalo Nickles and no-star reverse Standing Liberty Quarters which can be identified through other means as 1916[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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