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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 270905, member: 8247&quot;]As anyone here who searches rolls, you know people like to mark the ones we search.</p><p><br /></p><p>My thought for this thread is to post pics of the marks we find.&nbsp; I would be curious to know</p><p>if anyone here recognizes their mark that someone else has found.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll admit, I&#039;ve marked some of the ones I&#039;ve searched.&nbsp; It&#039;s about the only way to know if you</p><p>are getting your coins back.&nbsp; My method is simple.&nbsp; When I open a box, using black marker, I write</p><p>the current date (mm/dd format) on the heads side of any non keeper coins facing me on the </p><p>top of the rolls.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My logic is simple.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to waste time marking too many coins.&nbsp; When searching coins, I focus on the face of the coin.&nbsp; If I mark the back of a coin, there&#039;s a 50/50 chance I won&#039;t see my mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mark bicentennials.&nbsp; I don&#039;t flip those over unless something catches my eye, so again a 50/50 chance I won&#039;t see my mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mark all my coins.&nbsp; If I&#039;m getting my coins back, I will find a few marked coins.&nbsp; I don&#039;t need to get 350 marked coins in a box to know that I&#039;ve searched most of those coins.&nbsp; Inevitably, there are varieties out there that I&#039;m not going to recognize and there&#039;s no need for me to callously mark up coins that others might want to keep.</p><p><br /></p><p>Attached is an example of how I mark my coins (if I mark any).</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post examples of how others are marking theirs (and the logic behind it if any).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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