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Finally decided to go thru them and put em in books. Lame hobby but it calms me.

Finally decided to go thru them and put em in books. Lame hobby but it calms me.

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Watch out for the coin clippers.

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That would be a great covert term for (((them))).

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The hours and hours I spent as a kid sorting wheat cents, copper clads from silver, silver nickels from nickel, steel pennies, old indian heads, buffalo nickels ... I have about 20 Whitman's coin books 3/4s or more filled from 50 yeats ago. My elderly neighbors back then used to save all of their pocket change in coffee cans and about once a year have me count and roll it for them, letting me keep any "valuable" coins I found. Your sorting station picture brings back the memories, minus a magnifying glass and coin tubes.

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Coin collecting is a cool hobby. Our coinage didn't change for so long that it did become kind of boring, that's why the state quarters came out. It was both a patriotic gesture and and effort to spur interest in the coins as collectibles and art, and not just money.

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'member when the Mint would ship you sacagaweas at cost or even slightly discounted?

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If you ever have to sort the zinc pennies from a penny stash here’s an easy, cheap and quick method to do it….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gM9mOk6eb8

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Melting them is a gray area. The mint doesn't like you defacing money wholesale, but if you're not selling it or making money from it they generally don't say anything. Since the only reason to melt coinage is for the metals, you're probably going to get a visit from a secret service agent.

That's why you can deface pennies in embossers. You're paying someone to do it for you, but you're not selling the result.

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Nah. The secret service only goes after counterfeits and the counterfeiters. There's plenty of people making hobo carved coins, jewelry and plenty more melting coins. I've seen some interesting ways to deface coins. Even stacking, welding, folding and making them into handles for decorative items.

If you guys are interested in physical precious metals, there are plenty of reputable dealers online. I know of folks hoarding copper, silver, platinum, gold, etc. As coins and bars or as bullion. Mainly as a hedge against inflation, some for a shit hitting the fan scenario. Even as a hedge against getting blown out in a divorce. If you do something like that, don't tell anyone. Use online communities to talk to others like that.

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I never thought of collecting lots of pennies to complement silver and gold coinage. Smaller amounts than even silver coins.

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You have to be doing it on a grand scale before they care. You do it to 100 coins and they aren't going to give a shit.

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That's awesome.

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oh, copper pennies would be super useful to have around. modern pennies dont seem to be worth the effort to pick them off the ground unless you need some pennies for a project

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Thank you for the info. Solves a vexxing problem.