Commemorative coins-

[n8dagr8345]

I have yet to find one-
But for those that have who ALSO edge check, what is your technique for finding them?
I know some of them are clad and wont be noticed edge checking. Do you then do a quick once over to look for commemorative coins before you toss the clad in the pile?

Advice-
Thanks
N8

 

[midntmn]

If all you are doing is edge checking, you are missing a lot of coins, including silver. I always edge check first to get an idea on what might be in store. Then I do a surface check, letting them drop quickly from one hand to the other. I am always surprised by finding silver coins I wasn't expecting because, for whatever reason, they were not noticeable just looking at the edges.

Commemoratives all have distinct designs and immediately stick out from the normal halfs. Same for foreign coins. If it looks different, pull it and take a longer, closer look.

 

[db23]

I have yet to find one-
But for those that have who ALSO edge check, what is your technique for finding them?
I know some of them are clad and wont be noticed edge checking. Do you then do a quick once over to look for commemorative coins before you toss the clad in the pile?

Clad Comems (the ones I've found anyway) will generally look similar to a clad proof coin from the edge, a little thicker and ususally little to no wear on the reeding. The silver ones will look silver anway, so they are coins you'd have found edge checking anyway...

 

[Bigheed]

if you miss coins edge checking you haven't been doing enough halves

non silver proofs and commems can be spotted edge checking to. I do a modified half surface edge check, thats just how I open my rolls fastest. Might miss 1/1000 edge checking and I am A OK with that as well as errors and non silver commems, they are collectibles, not commodities.

 

[sultan of silver]

^^^+1^^^

 

[joad]

Proofs and commemoratives have a very distinctive edge unless they are totally toasted. I have always edge searched, but I always drop them from one hand to the other to do a sound check and thenshuffle them into a bucket for a second sound check. Works well for me...you can even pick magicians coins using this method as they have a distinctive thud.

Joad

 

[midntmn]

BigH...I'd like to have your discards. I use the same edge plus drop search above. You can't miss the sound of silver. BTW, I am searching while I am writing this and just found a nice shiny, fat edged proof (1989 S). Pops out at you in an edge search.

 

[Piledriver]

For a time I dumped everything through free (at the time) Coinstars.

Those machines reject silver.

Out of about $50,000 of coin edge searched, the machine found one merc and one 40% as I recall.

This was over a period of about three weeks or a month. We sure wouldn't have rolled that amount of coin if we had to take the time to face-search.

So therefore, we would have missed silver THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TIME TO SEARCH if we had been face-searching.

So, to each his own, but I'm sold on big volume and edge searching, if you want more silver in the pile FAST.

Keep on Rollin' !

 

[conleytheking]

This one just JUMPED out at me.
I found it in 90 dollars worth that had "already been searched"
It's a 1925 Stone Mt. coin....made in honor or the southern soldiers.
Just over 1 Million made!

 

[SilverFace]

This one just JUMPED out at me.
I found it in 90 dollars worth that had "already been searched"
It's a 1925 Stone Mt. coin....made in honor or the southern soldiers.
Just over 1 Million made!

That SM commem. is a great find. I'd love to find an old commem. like that someday.

HH & HH

 

[conleytheking]

So these coins aren't unheard of?
This is the first one I have ever ran across.

 

[SilverFace]

some people have mentioned finding old commems from time to time - the most common seems to be that 1892-93 Columbian Expo one. But I think I remember seeing someone posted finding a really low mintage (maybe 20,000 - 30,000) commem. not too long ago.

 

[conleytheking]

I was excited to see it! It's 90% silver...so it's at least worth $10
Some people have them on ebay for like $200...no bids of-course.
I'm thinking of selling it and buying some junk silver...or possibly trading for some.