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Re: Uncirculated wheat and memorial cents

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Posted by Coulport on July 18, 2010 at 17:05:11:

In Reply to: Uncirculated wheat and memorial cents posted by Swanie1 on July 18, 2010 at 12:25:14:

: When my Dad died in 1996, I acquired five rolls of sealed(plastic coin tubes) of brilliant uncirculated wheat and memorial cents. They are stuck in the tubes and won't come out. They were sealed with the plastic lids on the tubes. They are in the years and mints as follows: 1957D, 1958D, 1959D, 1959P, and 1960D. Can anyone tell me what their value would be? Also, how can I remove them from the stuck plastic tubes? Suggestions, please.

Wholesale on the 57D and 58D is about $7 a roll. The others are about $3 a roll.
The tubes are probably the old cellulose acetate kind which tend to shrink with age and tighten up on the coins inside. (The new clear tubes are now polystyrene and the opaque white ones are polyethylene and do not shrink.)
One trick I have used to liberate coins from the old plastic tubes is to put the rolls in the freezer for an hour then take them out and lay them on the side on something hard and hit them with a hammer till the plastic cracks then split the tubes open. You might as well try it since the coins are of no use the way they are.

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: : When my Dad died in 1996, I acquired five rolls of sealed(plastic coin tubes) of brilliant uncirculated  wheat and memorial cents.  They are stuck in the tubes and won't come out.  They were sealed with the plastic lids on the tubes.  They are in the years and mints as follows:  1957D, 1958D, 1959D, 1959P, and 1960D.  Can  anyone tell me what their value would be?  Also, how can I remove them from the stuck plastic tubes?  Suggestions, please. 

: Wholesale on the 57D and 58D is about $7 a roll. The others are about $3 a roll.
: The tubes are probably the old cellulose acetate kind which tend to shrink with age and tighten up on the coins inside. (The new clear tubes are now polystyrene and the opaque white ones are polyethylene and do not shrink.)
: One trick I have used to liberate coins from the old plastic tubes is to put the rolls in the freezer for an hour then take them out and lay them on the side on something hard and hit them with a hammer till the plastic cracks then split the tubes open. You might as well try it since the coins are of no use the way they are.



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