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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ordinary Fool, post: 2791655, member: 85318&quot;]CE Harris boxes of tubes although I prefer the more expensive Guardhouse since I can soak my coins using acetone xyelene while stacked in them which greatly reduces the cost of sanitizing them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish the Guardhouse tubes were optically clear and still impervious to wicked chemicals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins from rolls are FILTHY and will try your immune system.</p><p><br /></p><p>First step is to learn how to sanitize them and then sorting in a way that doesn&#039;t take over your work area and life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Get organized, get tubes when you can afford them and many more than you think you&#039;ll need, buy flips for good finds and good optics to examine them.</p><p><br /></p><p>A flat clinch stapler is also nice to have.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re serious, get a good used stereo microscope which reveals far more detail and works you much less than straining with a loupe. Neither sounds like work even after stacking and sorting and cleaning etc? </p><p><br /></p><p>Try looking at coins all day long with a loupe.</p><p><br /></p><p>A used Bausch and Lomb StereoZoom (SZ4) is cheap and quite good for coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the event you decide coins aren&#039;t for you, the stereo can be used for tons of other things and is simply nice to have. You can always sell one and where you make your money on anything, is when you buy it so, don&#039;t pay too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>For variety and error hunting, which is where the paycheck is in CRH&#039;ing, a loupe will limit you to generally finding virtually non-existent and naked eye obvious DD&#039;s such as the 1955, 1969 and 1972 with huge spreads, and result in your giving up while a guy like me will gladly buy your tubed or rolled coins, typically paying twice to three times what your local coin dealer won&#039;t even offer, to pick off what you missed after you did the lazy easy stuff like pluck key dates and snagged errors/varieties that can be seen from across the room.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves........... start out with cents then work your way up. If you have the money to buy boxes of nickels, dimes, quarters, and halves do it and even keep the copper cents as well as nickels.&nbsp; Check all your pocket change.</p><p><br /></p><p>From pocket change, I do most of my business in cash and often request rolled coins for change instead of notes, I hit 4 or 5 each and every week. It isn&#039;t so much about luck as it is having the tools to do it, the eye for detail, the willingness to seek the knowledge and file it on your pc where it is accessible, etc etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never dump coins back at the bank. I keep them. From time to time local hang-arounds attack sorting coins with me (it is easy labor intensive) and none ever complain about being paid with bank boxes of partially sorted but un-inspected coins, most often zinc or clad. I keep copper and nickel coins, period.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I will say, I disagree on the quarters as I&#039;m not a silver harvester like that since hunting varieties is much more certain and pays better. I take what silver I find but generally acquire silver coins from ads resulting in people bringing it to me since I pay much more than the pawn shops and coin dealers. I will also pay fairly for coins that aren&#039;t &quot;melt coins&quot; and pawn shops, and even dealers, will generally try to buy any coin for spot minus whatever, even if the coin has &#039;book value&#039;. The quarters are great for finding varieties and mostly errors for putting back long term. Some of them are good paychecks right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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