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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 905154, member: 24633&quot;]Welcome to the neighborhood!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve always been the curious sort, so if it were up to me, I&#039;d be sorting through all of them. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since you have literally thousands of coins in those 5gal buckets, I would use Zip-Loc bags and sort them by denomination, first. It would be too much of an &quot;organized mess&quot; to try to separate them by denomination/series at the outset.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Once you have them sorted by denomination, I would tackle the dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes next and use more Zip-Loc bags to sort them each by series since many of them are made of silver. Even if some of these silver coins have no legible date, the melt value is considerably more than face value. NOTE: You might want to start a &quot;No Date&quot; baggie for each denomination and/or series.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1) Morgan and Peace dollars are 90% silver. </p><p>2) Barber, Walking Liberty and Franklin half dollars are 90% silver.</p><p>3) 1964 Kennedy half dollars are 90% silver.</p><p>4) 1965-1970 Kennedy half dollars are 40% silver.</p><p>5) Barber and Standing Liberty quarters are 90% silver.</p><p>6) Washington quarters, 1932-1964, are 90% silver.</p><p>7) Barber and Winged Liberty (aka Mercury) dimes are all 90% silver.</p><p>8) Roosevelt dimes, 1946-1964, are 90% silver.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Once you&#039;ve completed this, the only denominations left to sort out would be the nickels and cents.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1) Liberty Head nickels, 1883-1912.</p><p>2) Buffalo nickels, 1913-1937.</p><p>3) Jefferson nickels, 1938 and on. Note: Jefferson War nickels, 1942-1945, contain 35% silver.</p><p>4) Indian Head cents, 1859-1909.</p><p>5) Lincoln Wheat (Reverse) cents, 1909-1958.</p><p>6) Lincoln Memorial (Reverse) cents, 1959-1982 are copper-based.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now that you have completed sorting all of the coins by denomination and series, you can then proceed to look for some of the more valuable key date and semi-key date coins within each series. This is where the <b><i>Red Book of United States Coins</i></b> by R.S. Yeoman will be of immense help, and of course, any more questions that you may have can likely be answered here by other members who specialize in any or all of these various series. Please be aware that if you have questions about a specific coin, it is best to include quality photos to enable us to give you our best opinions. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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