Sorting my 70 year accumulation

So far I haven't come up with any extra scarce or rare. I have found a lot of collectable stuff over a good range of dates. I appreciate all the encouragement.

 

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That is awsome.. a find is a find,i have a feeling you have some really nice treasures that lie beneath that hoard.i been going through rolls like crazy trying to find that beauty,she is just playing hard to get lol.

 

My latest find a 1964 Jefferson with a lamination. Found in my accumulation of Jefferson's.

 

I've been through some of my accumulation of early Jefferson's.
So far I found (attached photo and list below):
1 - 1938
10 - 1941 (2 large S and 3 small S)
4 - 1942 (2 Silver and 2 Reg)
9 - 1943
6 - 1945
4 - 1947
1 - 1948
1 - 1949
12 - Early 50's

 

I think I just finished my Jefferson's. There might be more, but it was fun looking all the way back to the start of my collection.

 

I started my IHC book in the late 40's. I put them in a Whitman folder. Attached are some pictures. The folder has a couple of layers of tape holding it together. I am torn between keeping it as is as a link to the past, and putting them in a more modern folder. My wife says to leave it as is.

 

In the 40's and 50's it was quite common to get Canadian coins in change. I kept every one I saw. Today I dumped out a bag of Canadian coins from my younger days a

nd found nickels going back to 1922. I am attaching a photo of them.​

 

It looks like I might have found a 1918 Wood Grain in my accumulation. Opinions and feedback welcome.

 

Digging into some old

boxes of Wheat Pennies I found some real nice ones. Attached is a 1909 P that I found.​

 

It’s kind of a toss up for me. The color is off, though it does look like delamination. My gut says cleaning that may have caused the lines, or made them more prominent.

 

Thanks. It is hard to tell from pictures and I know nothing about wood grain. Luckily for me I don't intend to sell an. I just like to sort and see what I have. I have had that for probably 60 years and all I did was gently rinse it with dish soap and water. Is that bad? Appreciate your input.

 

Any sort of rubbing is always bad, and if you didn’t get all the soap off, that would be bad too. However, there are much worse things you could’ve done to it. Was the cleaning just now or back then?

Also, Wood grain is an improper alloy mix:
http://www.error-ref.com/improper-alloy-mix/

 

Just a few days ago. The old coins have a lot of residue from sitting around all those years. Without getting some of it off they are difficult to assess. Back then they had just come from circulation and there was no need for cleaning. There was no residue. The vast majority of my coins were pulled straight from circulation.

 

Dont stress, they ain't going anywhere....that's what I tell myself and I have way too many things going on that need to be done sooner.

 

Dumped out a tub of old silver dimes to start looking through. So many things put aside in the last 70 years.

 

I’m drooling. Let us know if you find a 42/1!!

 

Thanks. I found nothing special. But, there were a lot of nice dimes. About 40 barbers.

 

I think you will find we will tolerate a lot!

Oh, the nickels...oh the humanity!!!

Oh, wait...the dimes, the dimes!!!

 

Your 1953 cent reminds me of the BU Lincolns that I dipped. They always came out in some really fake color that looked like your coin. Have yours been dipped?

 

Please post your older Canadian silver dollars and Half dollars from 1936 to now. I'm getting older also and would enjoy seeing the Canadian.