Bambooski

Ok that's great advice everyone, thanks!

Her Majesty, aka my 8 year old daughter found her first 100 year old coin today, a dateless buffalo with a mound on the reverse - a 1913. She is stoked.

Wow!

Ok, I feel really dumb, but where and what is a CoinStar Reject Bin?

Hi!

Thanks for the advice everyone. By carefully, I mean properly stored, not thrown in there carelessly.

Thanks again!!

Erm, can anyone help?

Right now, my entire collection is carefully placed in a drawer. Will this damage the coins somehow?

Interesting!

I feel really dumb, but what is a CoinStar Reject Bin?

Wow, that's really good advice, thanks!

I don't buy coins, I have a strict rule about finding everything in circulation. It may seem like a dumb question, but does anyone have any tips for finding things in circulation? I search rolls, by the way.

Don't clean at all, especially if it is a valuable coin. When I was little I would clean cents with soap and water, and even ketchup, but it didn't do anything.

Yeah, I've cleaned with ketchup, hot sauce, lemon juice, toothpaste... *sigh*

Happy birthday!

This morning buying a drink at 7-11 on the way to work got a British penny as a cent in change. Later in the day got a British 5 pence in change as a dime. "The British are coming, the British are coming!"

Cool!

Does anyone know about that for sure? I mean, would it be like finding a wheat penny to find something from 1881?

Wow, that looks really interesting, I would love to read that.

Lemon juice, hot sauce and ketchup. Seriously?!

No! One of my earliest memories is cleaning my favorite shiny penny with that and taking it out. It was blackened.

Hehe!

A 1940 nickel in my change, totally mint condition.

Welcome! I'm new too. I hope we can be friends Tell me a bit about your collection? It sounds really interesting.

Cool! I also like those sorts of things

Exactly.