Echostatic
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Well, I just recently started CRHing and found the newbie guide here to be pretty helpful. So far I have looked thru 2 boxes of cents, a box of nickels, a box of dimes, and just finished a box of halves. I found a handful of unremarkable wheats, a handful of older nickels in decent shape (no silver) no dimes to speak of, and some interesting half dollars, if not any silver. I read that halves from 2002-present were only issued to collectors and not meant for circulation, but people must be spending a lot of them. My $500 box contained three 2003's, three 2006's, a 2009 and a 2012. Are these 2002 and newer halves always this common?
There were a good number of them in very good shape as well, worth keeping some for that reason alone. I'm going to take some that are only lightly blemished and draw the copper out with heat and a methanol bath, electroplate with zinc and alloy it into brass. I think I can make some cool brass coin jewelry to give as gifts out of some of these common but pretty coins.
Aside from boxed coins, a teller passed on a 1977 Ike dollar coin, and my dad just gave me his coin collection, which is pretty cool. I'll go ahead and list what it consists of.
1922 peace dollar (given to him by his uncle)
1971 gold plated Ike dollar (he got as a teenager)
two 1964 half dollars
1968 half dollar
1979 and 1999 SBA dollar
1964 quarter
1943 steel cent
1936 and 1944 walking liberty half dollars
1944 mercury dime
1936 buffalo nickel, and two with the dates worn off
1947 nickel
1913, two 1917s, and 1927 wheat cents
So all that is really cool to get from him. I still have an unsearched box of cents to go through. Unfortunately I can't go through boxes too quickly as the banks around here require the coins to be wrapped or you get charged a fee, so that takes some time. Out of curiosity, how many boxes of halves do you guys tend to order from a bank at a time? I'd like more than one, but I don't want to ask for too many and risk their ire.
Well, I just recently started CRHing and found the newbie guide here to be pretty helpful. So far I have looked thru 2 boxes of cents, a box of nickels, a box of dimes, and just finished a box of halves. I found a handful of unremarkable wheats, a handful of older nickels in decent shape (no silver) no dimes to speak of, and some interesting half dollars, if not any silver. I read that halves from 2002-present were only issued to collectors and not meant for circulation, but people must be spending a lot of them. My $500 box contained three 2003's, three 2006's, a 2009 and a 2012. Are these 2002 and newer halves always this common?
There were a good number of them in very good shape as well, worth keeping some for that reason alone. I'm going to take some that are only lightly blemished and draw the copper out with heat and a methanol bath, electroplate with zinc and alloy it into brass. I think I can make some cool brass coin jewelry to give as gifts out of some of these common but pretty coins.
Aside from boxed coins, a teller passed on a 1977 Ike dollar coin, and my dad just gave me his coin collection, which is pretty cool. I'll go ahead and list what it consists of.
1922 peace dollar (given to him by his uncle)
1971 gold plated Ike dollar (he got as a teenager)
two 1964 half dollars
1968 half dollar
1979 and 1999 SBA dollar
1964 quarter
1943 steel cent
1936 and 1944 walking liberty half dollars
1944 mercury dime
1936 buffalo nickel, and two with the dates worn off
1947 nickel
1913, two 1917s, and 1927 wheat cents
So all that is really cool to get from him. I still have an unsearched box of cents to go through. Unfortunately I can't go through boxes too quickly as the banks around here require the coins to be wrapped or you get charged a fee, so that takes some time. Out of curiosity, how many boxes of halves do you guys tend to order from a bank at a time? I'd like more than one, but I don't want to ask for too many and risk their ire.
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