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<p>[QUOTE="Mountain Man, post: 7532411, member: 94733"]A few weeks ago, I purchased ten pounds of world coins to go through, just to have something to do. First of all, the small box they came in nearly broke my wrist when the employee from my local UPS Store handed it to me. I never realized how heavy ten pounds, in a small package about the size of a brick, was. </p><p>Next, how does one attack having several hundred different types and sizes of coins. I'm usually pretty logical, but I had to stop and ponder how to deal with all of those coins. Do I group them by the metal they are minted in? By their denomination? By country? By shape? By size?</p><p>I decided on the latter and picked out all of the smallest coins. I divided those by the metal they were minted with. Copper, brass, white metal (no silver, darn it). Being the smallest coins they are going to test my eyes better than any optometrist could. I will now separate those by country and denomination, before attacking the other coins.</p><p>I'm just curious to know what others would do under these same circumstances, and having access to a sorting machine isn't fair. LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300562[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mountain Man, post: 7532411, member: 94733"]A few weeks ago, I purchased ten pounds of world coins to go through, just to have something to do. First of all, the small box they came in nearly broke my wrist when the employee from my local UPS Store handed it to me. I never realized how heavy ten pounds, in a small package about the size of a brick, was. Next, how does one attack having several hundred different types and sizes of coins. I'm usually pretty logical, but I had to stop and ponder how to deal with all of those coins. Do I group them by the metal they are minted in? By their denomination? By country? By shape? By size? I decided on the latter and picked out all of the smallest coins. I divided those by the metal they were minted with. Copper, brass, white metal (no silver, darn it). Being the smallest coins they are going to test my eyes better than any optometrist could. I will now separate those by country and denomination, before attacking the other coins. I'm just curious to know what others would do under these same circumstances, and having access to a sorting machine isn't fair. LOL [ATTACH=full]1300562[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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