Getting Serious

[lucky2]

In the past years I have searched hundreds of rolls of coins. I have stopped to admire and consider each one, mounting them in 2x2s, searched for verification, and sometimes poping them out of the 2x2 for photos. This has proven to be a time consumeing waste of time and 2x2s. With almost 20 rolls of 1959D cents to search I have over 100 in 2x2s already and still half the rolls to go. I have stopped that procedure and put all finds into a tube. 5 Tubes at this point. I plan to try and sort these down a little more then do a photo of each one putting them in 2x2s after they are photographed. I will even number the 2x2s to correspond with the photos so I can find a peticular coin later. Somehow I doubt that most of these coins will match the ones listed on coppercoins so all my numbers will default to coppercoins when I can get them listed. In the mean time I am having one heck of a good time searching these coins. For the most part Split Serif Ds many different but ocassionally I find something that is unusual. Is there a template or ready made program that I can get for posting these finds in the future? lucky2

[Robert]

[Bob P]

Hi Lucky,
As far as a template goes, coppercoins.com is working on a syatem that will allow you to have your entire collection listed on-line. Now that Chuck's first book is out there, I assume he will be starting to update the coppercoins site once he returns from Greece near the end of June. There are many things we would like to do on the site to help collectors such as yourself make attributing their finds a little easier. Most of these are time consuming endeavors that just need a little more time. Chuck has been learning a lot of things at college, and will put that knowledge to use.
As for right now, about the only thing I can suggest is that if you have EXCEL, then you can make that program work for you. As far as listing them on the site, I'm afraid that currently, only Chuck and myself can do that. We have many, many coins still needing to have pictures taken and listed on the site. A lot of those are coins just like you mentioned...minor split serif types that no one else wants to list. We are working on it, and as time goes on, you will see more of them listed. Our plan (and plans don't always go according to plans), is to try and complete one year (including all mintmarks) at a time. Once that is done, we will post messages to folks asking them to check out that year on the site. If after they do that, they find that a variety they have is not listed, then they can send that coin in to get photographed and listed. Something to keep in mind also is that if you send in a coin and we add it to the site, there is NO attribution fee. The new book lists all the attribution guidelines. Hang in there lucky..and continue enjoying the search. I have done so for 36 years now, and I never tire of it.

[coppercoins]

There's all of what Bob said in addition to the fact that using 2x2s is very cumbersome at best if you are numbering and renumbering coins, and pulling them out for photos. By far the best thing to use is safe-flips, which I highly recommend. You can cut card stock available in reams at office supply stores for the inserts at an extremely low cost...around one cent per five inserts. I have been doing it this way for almost ten years now and love it. No staples, no wasted holders, and they are easy to sort, resort, etc.