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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4295785, member: 77814&quot;]This post will probably scare most of those Coin Collectors that think all coins are Doubled Dies and every mark on them MUST be a MInt error.&nbsp; And it may make experts ponder when they see a light zincoln, what actually happened to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So even though the story starts out nice and kind it does turn into a nightmare for some, nah, a devilish nightmare.&nbsp; So turn away now whilst you still can.</p><p><br /></p><p>So for this year I finally broke down and &quot;processed&quot; my circulation change, and more specifically the cents/pennnies as my cent tub was overflowing.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093508[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I normally separate them by decade and then store them away.&nbsp; I may or may not in the future actually search them&nbsp; That&#039;s a plan but you never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>But first, as I thought about this for a few days I noticed whilst exercising that I had a few cups of coins in them on a desk next to my stair stepper?&nbsp; Odd, as I keep the cups for separating coins and they are in a different location.&nbsp; Of course, then I noticed I had a third set of cups elsewhere.&nbsp; Dyslexia and halucination at it&#039;s best.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I accumulate my THREE sets of cups.</p><p>A little less insanity now.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093509[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093510[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But as I go through all the cents I&#039;ve noticed something consistent, with meandering thoughts, such as:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>It seems every shield cent is thinner, lighter, and smaller than all the others.</li> <li>Some of these corroded zincoln cents actually give off a puff of white powder in the air when you touch them or flip them to check the date.&nbsp; Are these safe to breath around ??&nbsp; Should the government set up a SuperFund to properly remove these from circulation and people&#039;s storage ?</li> <li>as I create my pile of &quot;misfits&quot; that will get the alca-seltzer bath .. more commonly known as muriatic acid because it&#039;s so cool to watch.&nbsp; You&#039;ll be glad to know that the nickels, dimes, and even most of the pennies will get put back in circulation with the unbalance copper &amp; gunk wash they get from the cents.&nbsp; These are the only coins that are granted another day in circulation ... all the misfits with a copper wash.&nbsp; Yes, I can hear all the newbie coin collectors out there thanking me.</li> <li>Everything else not a &quot;misfit&quot; heads to my Davey Jones&#039; Locker .... why put &quot;perfect&quot; coins back into circulation, right ?</li> <li>Every 1982 D and 1982 cent I separate provides a slight giggle whether audible or not as I realized it has now been taken out of circulation to prevent abhorrent CT posts of &quot;the one&quot;</li> <li>As I ponder basic existence I come to the realization that I really do not understand the reasoning for coin hunting and the large amount of time it takes.&nbsp; I guess I&#039;m in the same camp as late CT poster (still alive just not on CT) V. Kurt Bellman in this regards about coins.&nbsp; I&#039;m lucky though, I have more restraint than he did about calling people idiots.&nbsp; Matter of fact, we need an &quot;Anonymous Idiot&quot; button for posts.&nbsp; This thought I consider the most beneficial aspect of this entire process as I write.</li> <li>As I further ponder my, catch-kill-and release process I wonder how many weigh their cents and wonder if they have truly found a rare &quot;thin&quot; planchet zincoln.</li> <li>Coin collecting probably was a lot cooler in the 1970s and before.&nbsp; Back when it was more regional and localized as the internet didn&#039;t dispel of everything.&nbsp; I still recall in the 1980s and 1990s of mailing out checks to certain coin stores such as one I vaguely recall located in Missisippi which I believe was run out of their house.&nbsp; When you relied upon the expertise of the store owner to properly describe by phone and in the inventory mailings they would mail out for the selections - of course, looking back I was utterly clueless.&nbsp; You then called them on the phone (yes, the one attached to the wall), mailed a check (those paper things you write the date, amount and your signature - yes, the ones that contain your Full Bank Routing and Account Number on) and waited for your package to arrive.</li> <li>China wasn&#039;t making fakes for everything like they do today.</li> <li>Why the midwest never gets any S cents.</li> <li>Whether I should post my 1969, 1970 &amp; 1972 cents on ebay, etsy or even CT.&nbsp; Or for that matter, just sell all of them on etsy.</li> <li>Will I ever set aside time to go through this stuff that I&#039;ve put aside since the 1970s, or are they destined for the Coin Counter machine?</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So the coin cup method is fairly quick and easy, so</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the cents, by weight using a good scale:</p><p>2000+ = 1560 g</p><p>1990-1999 = 1047 g</p><p>1980-1989 = 982 g</p><p>1970-1979 = 477g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093511[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1960-1969 = 162 g</p><p>1960s and before = 18g (which was about 6 cents)</p><p>Canadian = 39 g</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually really enjoy the design of Canadian currency, and not just their cents.&nbsp; I love the beaver nickels especially the ones with flat sides.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093512[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh darn, I forgot to separate the 1982 pre and post zincs.&nbsp; I knew I forgot something.</p><p><br /></p><p>And thus the end of the first (and nice) stage of my coin processing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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