This week’s letters (02/07/12)
Mint items reflect hobby’s decline into ‘money game’
I agree with the Jan. 24 “Viewpoint” article written by Mike Davis that a once-fun hobby is now a money game. I will buy nothing from the U.S. Mint. In 2009, I purchased two clad proof sets for $32 each.
Now a few years later, I can’t even sell one unless I take about $15 for it. I wished I would have spent my money on an uncirculated Morgan silver dollar. At least that would not have lost 50 percent of its value in just two years.
Bob Hefner
Moorefield, W.V.
Jan. 10 ‘Viewpoint’ does not define ‘critter coins’
I read the “Viewpoint” article, “Six factors may explain price jumps,” in the Jan 10 issue and the writer, David Chiszar, referred to “critter coins” several times, but never defined them… could you tell me what they are?
Rick Parfitt
Florida
Editor’s note: Critter coins are coins with animals on them.
Recent find reports spur reader on to his own finds
As someone who gets a few rolls of cents and nickels to search, the recent circulation finds inspired me to ask for a few rolls today. I got two rolls each.
The first roll of nickels had four dark coins. While three of them were from the 1990s, the other was a 1942-P. The next roll had a 1954-S, 1955-D and an almost uncirculated 1940-D. Not too bad for 80 coins. The cent rolls didn’t have a wheatie but did have 14 from the early ’60s.
I think I’ll grab a few more rolls next week.
Roger Scires
Camden, S.C.
Debate on cleaning coins is full, much-covered topic
I thought that cleaning coins went out with the ’50s and ’60s. How many of us have cleaned a coin in our youth and later realized that we most likely goofed it up to the point where it is worth much less, like common silver coins that tarnish because you’ve taken off the original layer: the dirt?
I myself have cleaned some average Franklins, Washingtons, etc., only to find
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