Slabbing coins whose base cost is face plus gas to the bank

It's unrealistic to judge the recession from collector journals, or even coin collecting as a whole ... BUT

I'm not the only one here whose income is worse now than a couple years ago. And that's without even losing a job or having ongoing medical costs. And I'm not the only one who's collecting differently because of that.

So, I continue to have lots of fun with modern business strikes. Sure, ten rolls of nickels from the bank at a time can make my brain bleary. But I try to spend the throwaways at the grocer's auto-checkout outside rush hour, haha. (I'm curious to learn what you other roll-searchers do. Do you have the cajones to take your throwaways back to the same branch you got the rolls?)

The bleariness makes the discoveries more fun. They come in bunches - that's the nature of how banks get their bags and roll them up, I suppose.

I'm finally submitting some more coins for grading - six of twelve came straight from my bank, one came literally from pocket change, and the other five from Ebay-acquired OBW's. I'm still amazed that a gem 1965 nickel could come out of circulation like that - I'm only slightly jealous of you bank tellers who know a coin's history more than I do.

There are plenty more worth grading (esp. for RPM's, cuds and die breaks), but with budget in mind, I went for high resale value only.

The Memorial reverse is of a 1977 - it should easily replace my MS 64 in my registry! We'll see ...