60 seconds to look at a roll of pennies

[Guest]

Let's say you have less than one minute to look at a roll of pennies. Besides wheat pennies, what would you look for?

[Steven]

I would look for more time. LOL

Wouldn't be able to get any idea of what you had in that amount of time.

Just noticed one more post and I hit 2000.. woopie

[DoubleYou]

I might be able to look at them all in that amount of time

[Scott99]

Id pickout wheats and ms coins. Lol

[coinman2009]

Try to look for any 88's!

[koinmon]

I would look for more time. LOL

Wouldn't be able to get any idea of what you had in that amount of time.

Just noticed one more post and I hit 2000.. woopie

Wouldn't even start with so little time either.
George

[atarian]

Wheats ( wouldnt bother with).

What i would focus on would be :
1998 1999 and 2000 ( WAM search)
1966 for the large chip that has eluded me thus far
2009 for any extra fingers.
And if any time do a 88 89 and 92 92D search for CLAM and RDV5-6

[pennies4pennies]

60 seconds is fast but if you are looking at obw rolls then you can go fast but with bank rolls it takes time. I can go through a bank roll in under a minute but I know what years are what and what to look for. My wheats I spend 30 seconds to 2 minutes on each one. In time you get faster but theres still alot I don't know about for years. I don't look for the little errors or small rpms or ddo/ ddr . If I did it would take alot more time. A good scope will help you go fast if that is what you are looking for.
Frank

[coppercoins]

If I had only 30 seconds per roll, I wouldn't bother looking at all. Segregating wheat cents instead of looking for more than just wheat cents is a waste of time - most of them are worth very little. If I don't have time to pull the die varieties I let the roll sit until I do have time. End of story.

[lara4228]

60 seconds? Line em up in 3 rows with one extra on the bottom. quickly pull anything that tickles your fancy from the naked eye (quickly of course). Then you take your loupe and quick scan. remove anything possible and quick! Flip and repeat!

Now here is a question for you. What in Heavens name made you think of such an odd question? New game show maybe?

[cmajlz]

Being new to this I thought most people had a quick process to narrow down the ones worth looking at and i was trying to get an idea what that might be. The real reason is I work across the street from a bank and, the last couple of weeks, I've been picking up a couple rolls to look at. Usually, the anxiety gets to me and I don't wait until I get home to make the first pass through the coins. I figure I have about a minute to do that at work before I get asked what I am doing. LOL.

It sounds like most of you have something to look at the coin under to magnify it. I may have to invest in one especially since I have cataracts and haven't much of a clue as to what to look for. I thought evryone had some sort of weeding out process before they went to the trouble of looking closer at a coin. I thought maybe the 80/20 rule might apply here and that the 80% could easily be detected and tossed.

[lara4228]

I would be fired if I ever worked across from a bank! I would spend too much time over there instead of at work!

Good reasoning on your question though.

[atarian]

cmajlz,

Heres my lame setup ( pardon my messy desk )

My computer with easy access here for help if needed, also a microscope that zooms 3.0x 10.( so 30x zoom ) with desk lamp to clearly see what im doing before the scope is in play.



The second picture is of the digital camera microscope I got here for 35.00. Its cheap but its a great camera with the software.

The book I wrote ( not out yet ) all the photos in it were done with that little scope.



The overall view of the instruments of destruction.




You will find your own scopes loupes and other items to help you in your searches at home . One day when you find your nitche or nitches you might go for something like this to store them all in while you go through bricks of cents (25.00 to a brick)



Just something to chew on as your collecting grows and more things you find.