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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 406130, member: 5629&quot;]Agreed, with minor adjustments. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>$50 face in cents can be gone through, sorted, and cherry-picked in a good 72 hour session, less proper sleep, food, and commode time.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Like sf340flier said, you will want to sort by decade first, keeping all 1909 varieties separate.&nbsp; As well, keep the memorials, Indians, and &quot;others&quot; in their own separate piles.&nbsp; If you have a moderately sized mirror, clean it with distilled water and dry it with a microfiber and buff it out.&nbsp; Use this as your slider and work area.&nbsp; Do not even bother with gloves, just keep your hands off of anything moist or dirty, including drinks.&nbsp; Take regular breaks throughout.&nbsp; A little bit of finger oil and mirror sliding on the sides and edges of the rims is not going to turn your cents into problem coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would take a good sizable amount out of the bag and start off (just pour some onto the mirror.&nbsp; Then, just quickly separate the obverse facing from the reverse facing.&nbsp; Slide the obverse facing coins around the mirror to separate the 5 different decades.&nbsp; Once you have those separated, just slide them off the edge of the mirror/desk into the appropriately marked container.&nbsp;&nbsp; Slide the reverse facing coins back into the bag, and start the process over.</p><p><br /></p><p>You should be able to have $50 face sorted by decade within about 5 hours of this.&nbsp; Now that you have the cents sorted, you can start cherry-picking from decade 1 on up to the 1950&#039;s.&nbsp; I would personally take the extra time to sort them by date (mixed mint marks).&nbsp; After that, I would scrutinize each date carefully looking for any errors and/or varieties (using whatever source you want to determine what would qualify for such).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are putting albums together, I would put the coins into albums at this point in the sorting/searching stage.&nbsp; You may also want to consider putting the coins back together as year/MM rolls as well at this point.&nbsp; It will make things easier to go back over again later if you decide to keep certain ones or need to find specific date/MM&#039;s later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most importantly, enjoy your time with your coins while you have it! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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