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<p>[QUOTE="10gary22, post: 971879, member: 23626"]Ok, here's what I do. I have a cupcake pan with 12 places on the corner of my office desk and about 30 paper cups. All cents get sorted by year from 80 to date. 70;s get a cup, 60's, etc.</p><p>Next, early coins go in the muffin tin. One cup for really early, one for 30-40 and one for 50's.</p><p>If I see something funny, it goes in the tin. Canadians go in the tin, Odd foreign cents go in the tin, etc.</p><p> </p><p>I have a big box to stack stuff in when I want to set up for nickles or dimes. Those I dump pretty quick. I copied the Fivas-Stanton classification chart and look at it before a final search and I check Wexler, the Lincoln Resource and Copper Coin sites before I take on a cup, I even make notes on a clipboard so I won't miss something.</p><p> </p><p>That's how I found the 1988 D DRV=006 in a cup of 1988 coins. I stumbled on it. But I did a lot of searching too. My friend from here said persistence may pay off. I agree, because I was getting discouraged after getting skunked for so much hard work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="10gary22, post: 971879, member: 23626"]Ok, here's what I do. I have a cupcake pan with 12 places on the corner of my office desk and about 30 paper cups. All cents get sorted by year from 80 to date. 70;s get a cup, 60's, etc. Next, early coins go in the muffin tin. One cup for really early, one for 30-40 and one for 50's. If I see something funny, it goes in the tin. Canadians go in the tin, Odd foreign cents go in the tin, etc. I have a big box to stack stuff in when I want to set up for nickles or dimes. Those I dump pretty quick. I copied the Fivas-Stanton classification chart and look at it before a final search and I check Wexler, the Lincoln Resource and Copper Coin sites before I take on a cup, I even make notes on a clipboard so I won't miss something. That's how I found the 1988 D DRV=006 in a cup of 1988 coins. I stumbled on it. But I did a lot of searching too. My friend from here said persistence may pay off. I agree, because I was getting discouraged after getting skunked for so much hard work.[/QUOTE]
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