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First - I'm glad my previous post was able to get a good dialect going on the forum. Thank you to all that posted a reply. I hope this one can have the same effect.

Do you seperate your CU by condition? Some of the responses that users posted in my previous thread made me rethink how I sort/store my stash. Here's what I started doing:

1) Rolls of AU, all dates
2) Rolls of circulated CU by year
3) Rolls of S mints, all dates
4) Containers of "green cancer-ridden ugglies"
*edit*
5) Rolls of Wheats
6) Rolls of canadians (by percentage)

Thoughts?

On the condition that it's zinc I separate it to the return bucket; and on the condition it's copper, I keep it!

I only separate the nice shiny AU's from the normal copper Lincoln Memorials. Wheats and Canadians are separated out also.

I only keep the really nice ones separate. Well I do keep the really ugly ones separate as well but I find that my qualification for "ugly" can vary greatly depending on mood, percentages I'm getting and possibly other factors Wheats get separated and Canadians as well. In the original post you said you separate Canadians by percentage. Canadians 96 and back are all the same percentage, they just have different weights for different years. Not trying to nit pick if that was just a typo. I'm also not sure about the real early ones like 40s, they might be slightly different. I too used to separate by years but since they are all the same percentage they now go in the same jar. I'm in the northeast and average roughly one Canadian per roll. I should keep s mints separate but I find so few that I don't bother.

Chief wrote:I only separate the nice shiny AU's from the normal copper Lincoln Memorials. Wheats and Canadians are separated out also.

This is what I do save for the "really nasty" go in the trash, and I separate the Kings from the Queens.

And that one wild Indian I found.

All the best...Bob.

I seperate wheats (by decade) Canadians (all in the same pile) and copper (BU,ugly, bent, dented, green) all the same pile

merchoarder wrote:I only keep the really nice ones separate. Well I do keep the really ugly ones separate as well but I find that my qualification for "ugly" can vary greatly depending on mood, percentages I'm getting and possibly other factors Wheats get separated and Canadians as well. In the original post you said you separate Canadians by percentage. Canadians 96 and back are all the same percentage, they just have different weights for different years. Not trying to nit pick if that was just a typo. I'm also not sure about the real early ones like 40s, they might be slightly different. I too used to separate by years but since they are all the same percentage they now go in the same jar. I'm in the northeast and average roughly one Canadian per roll. I should keep s mints separate but I find so few that I don't bother.

I do pretty much exactly the same thing. And I can also relate on how what I consider ugly depends on mood.

Keep:
BU coppers
normal coppers
ugly coppers
wheats
canadian coppers
canadian zinc/steel (goes with all my normal canadian money)
strange and unusual/foriegn

Return:
zincolns

I just sort out the wheats and Canadians from the rest of the coppers, for the time being.

I pull old ones, and a few more recent pennies that are close to uncirculated. That's all.

inflationhawk wrote:On the condition that it's zinc I separate it to the return bucket; and on the condition it's copper, I keep it!

+1

I have a bin for each decade of wheat cents.
I have a bin for Canadian Copper.
I have a bin for ugly copper that will some day be run through a rock tumbler.
I have a bin for AU/BU copper
I also have a few dishes for the following: AU Wheats, Nicely toned cents, Stamped, foreign, kings George, bent copper.
Circulated copper through the ScanCoin and into $50 canvas bags.
Zinc in pails to be dumped!

I don't have a lot but I keep wheats and king georges in a beer bottle. I keep all copper lincolns and canadians in 2 liter bottles. I toss the uglies in the trash, and return the zincs. Should I be separating the canadians?

I separate out the 59, 60, copper 82, zinc 82, 68-74S, all the rest goes into the same bucket. I will keep shiny coppers in AU condition and better, finding nice ones in the lower mintages is rare, I've become pickier about that over time. Wheats, they are what they are, scarce in rolls. I get Canadians as well, about one every three rolls, luckily most of them are copper, and the occasional Bahamas penny.

1 ryedale, what i catch by eye. primo, canada, wheat

right now, I just separate cooper, 1982, wheats, cans, zinc, but i would like to separate the really good and really bad copper but i usually sort with a baby in one hand.

I also look over 83's, 84's, 96, 98,99,2000 found a 2000 wide AM just tonight in a loomis roll, and it was not completely destroyed, surprising. I also save all my 2009's, now, I'm not sure what the errors are, I was researching it at one time though. I don't find to many really.

I have a box full of 2009's that I'll go through some day to look for errors. I had about a dozen or so 1983's that shot out of the copper side of the Ryedale, but upon weighing them on a gram scale, they were all zinc

I keep the uglies separate from the nicer ones. Don't want their ugliness to spread