Coin Collecting

[Crystallas]

Any numismatists, or just casual coin collectors on the chishitty?

I just have whatever from making change and working cashier as a teenager. Plus military challenge coins, IDK. That's a different topic IMO. Thinking about fixing my small collection and organizing it, instead of just keeping everything essentially in a comicbook bag with clips to divide them(I know, it's ghetto). Went to look at different solutions for protection, and it's kind of confusing for a newb.

Kind of interested in a number of aspects. Seeing an old date on something can bring you back to that year, or make you think about the history, where it's been, etc. Kind of cool thing. Only the coolest posers collect coins.

If Rush were more active, I'd just ask him ("Master of coin"). :fist:

 

[Burque]

Any numismatists, or just casual coin collectors on the chishitty?

I just have whatever from making change and working cashier as a teenager. Plus military challenge coins, IDK. That's a different topic IMO. Thinking about fixing my small collection and organizing it, instead of just keeping everything essentially in a comicbook bag with clips to divide them(I know, it's ghetto). Went to look at different solutions for protection, and it's kind of confusing for a newb.

Kind of interested in a number of aspects. Seeing an old date on something can bring you back to that year, or make you think about the history, where it's been, etc. Kind of cool thing. Only the coolest posers collect coins.

If Rush were more active, I'd just ask him ("Master of coin"). :fist:

I only collect trash silver coins, because of prep value.

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[Crystallas]

I only collect trash silver coins, because of prep value.

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I do that too. It's a bit silly to get a silver dime back in change, and to just spend ten cents worth, instead of the dollar+ pending market. But by the same token(no pun), silly to get a double die penny worth a hundred+ and spend it as one cent.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Idk if I have anything that is collectible but if my eye spots a silver piece or anything older then 1950 I save those.

My cousin collects coins some real cool stuff when he tells the significance of them. Even collects rare paper money. $500 bills and the gold vouchers are my favorite. He has old bills from way back in the day that you would have to fold in four to fit your pocket

 

[Aesopian]

I look out for certain coins that still circulate some older coins could be worth millions of dollars and people have no idea.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I look out for certain coins that still circulate some older coins could be worth millions of dollars and people have no idea.

BS. No coins in circulation are worth anywhere near a million dollars. You remind me of DezBears saying such ridiculous things.

 

[Omeletpants]

No comment

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

No comment

Not buying it.

 

[xer0h0ur]

BS. No coins in circulation are worth anywhere near a million dollars. You remind me of DezBears saying such ridiculous things.

That is because it is DezBears.

 

[Aesopian]

BS. No coins in circulation are worth anywhere near a million dollars. You remind me of DezBears saying such ridiculous things.

[video=youtube_share;qKacmDabAkQ]https://youtu.be/qKacmDabAkQ[/video]

 

[brett05]

I don't think that coin above was ever circulated which is why the high grade on it and thus value, at least part of it.

 

[Crystallas]

What constitutes as circulation can get vague. If the original recipient of the coin, after minting, kept it and/or passed it down without redeeming face value, then yeah. It was never circulated. But limited circulation is still circulation.

So just to be fair and grant the benefit of the doubt. I would say it's an edge case and not really worth much focus. Instead there are actual circulation coins, worth WELL above both melt value and denomination. Not everything needs to be a Honus Wagner.

 

[Burque]

What constitutes as circulation can get vague. If the original recipient of the coin, after minting, kept it and/or passed it down without redeeming face value, then yeah. It was never circulated. But limited circulation is still circulation.

So just to be fair and grant the benefit of the doubt. I would say it's an edge case and not really worth much focus. Instead there are actual circulation coins, worth WELL above both melt value and denomination. Not everything needs to be a Honus Wagner.

I had a buddy that worked at a gas station that would get silver quarters by the boatload when broke people came in to buy cigarettes, he always kept cash with him to buy those quarters up. This was in the 90's so I am sure the amount in circulation is ever decreasing.

 

[brett05]

I had a buddy that worked at a gas station that would get silver quarters by the boatload when broke people came in to buy cigarettes, he always kept cash with him to buy those quarters up. This was in the 90's so I am sure the amount in circulation is ever decreasing.

Lunch lady in the late 70's early 80's did that as well with the kids buying lunch.

 

[Crystallas]

I have my stash. What I'm trying to figure out now, is what would be the best protection. Bang for the buck. Just staple plastic and cardboard? Cheap coin holders?

That's my bigger dilemma now. Having a coin worth $1-2, I'm good with $0.05 protection. But it's silly to buy those $0.50 coin holders. Heck, I don't even know what from what. That's how little I know about this side of coin collecting. Everything I have now is in makeshift comic book bags with clips to separate things, or stacked in old 35mm film tubes(most of which are just silver coins for melt value that are in the tubes).

Are books the way to go? Binders? Capsules? Which brands, etc.

http://www.jpscorner.com/coin-holders.html This site has them simplified, and it's still a little confusing. I guess I just need to hit up some coin collector forum and browse through other solutions.

 

[Ares]

Of all the stuff Crys is an expert on... coin collecting he is a novice.

"Someone help me figure out how to protect my coins, I need to finish building this time machine."

Sorry Crys I find it lolzy.

 

[Crystallas]

When I collected sports cards and comic books, I took issue with people who would sell things in some odd-standard case of some sort. And for good reason, it creates issues in a lot cases(ugh, no pun).

They used the wrong protection for the wrong purposes in some instances. Some SHOPs were absolute "novices" as well, because they were just mucking around with the selection of .. for a lack of a better term, gear that they sold in shop. Who am I to say a shop didn't know what they were doing? Well, when you see UV fade on certain paper, when you saw spines that curled under the wrong boards, when you saw cards sticking to those hard plastic sleeves. Screw-closed slabs on holographic cards(and it was tight, so over a few decades the foil part separated from the cardstock if it swole in case. You just roll your eyes and move on. But at the same time, that means the stock they are fucking up, means yours will preserve much longer.

So it's just the matter of being on the same page as the rest of the market. Using the same methods. Not seeing some better mousetrap, and trying to do my own thing. Know what I'm sayin' homes?

 

[oober]

JPs corner is a good site. I have used them before. what are you trying to do? Put coins in folders or albums?

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/ is the best site by far.

 

[Burque]

I have my stash. What I'm trying to figure out now, is what would be the best protection. Bang for the buck. Just staple plastic and cardboard? Cheap coin holders?

That's my bigger dilemma now. Having a coin worth $1-2, I'm good with $0.05 protection. But it's silly to buy those $0.50 coin holders. Heck, I don't even know what from what. That's how little I know about this side of coin collecting. Everything I have now is in makeshift comic book bags with clips to separate things, or stacked in old 35mm film tubes(most of which are just silver coins for melt value that are in the tubes).

Are books the way to go? Binders? Capsules? Which brands, etc.

http://www.jpscorner.com/coin-holders.html This site has them simplified, and it's still a little confusing. I guess I just need to hit up some coin collector forum and browse through other solutions.

To be honest I would roll everything that isn't individually valuable. Ie: trash silver quarters and dimes, wheat pennies etc.

Then categorize by value. If it's less then ten bucks it's probably fine in a bag that isn't going to get Disturbed often, if it's more then ten dollars individual coin sleeves would work fine and if it's over 50 bucks it's worth packing away in graduating better storage based on value.

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[brett05]

I have my stash. What I'm trying to figure out now, is what would be the best protection. Bang for the buck. Just staple plastic and cardboard? Cheap coin holders?

That's my bigger dilemma now. Having a coin worth $1-2, I'm good with $0.05 protection. But it's silly to buy those $0.50 coin holders. Heck, I don't even know what from what. That's how little I know about this side of coin collecting. Everything I have now is in makeshift comic book bags with clips to separate things, or stacked in old 35mm film tubes(most of which are just silver coins for melt value that are in the tubes).

Are books the way to go? Binders? Capsules? Which brands, etc.

http://www.jpscorner.com/coin-holders.html This site has them simplified, and it's still a little confusing. I guess I just need to hit up some coin collector forum and browse through other solutions.

I turned in something like 25 rolls of silver. All wrapped up in make shift paper sleeves where even the ends were covered in paper. Then all those rools kept in an old fashioned metal coffee can with a lid. The coins never oxidized.