Trying to come up with some coin fun during extended downtime so back to the basics

I had shoulder surgery last Thursday and find myself recouping at home while my wife is at work. I can do a little work at home but typing with one hand is very tedious. Just typing this is taking forever. So I find myself in a rare opportunity, home alone to spread out my raw coins. I have to keep myself off of EBay as much as possible lest I spend money I can't afford to spend. At this point I can only estimate what my 20% of all the surgery costs will be. If you hear sobbing in the background, it is me thinking about all the great coins I could have bought with that 20%.

But back to the topic of having some coin fun, my wife calls it playing coins- she says, you playing coins again- you have been playing coins all day, etc. I did think ahead and checked out some coin books at the library to fill some time. I also bought a couple each of 1909-40 penny and 1938-62 nickel Whitman folders. I have dozens of tubes of pennies and about 15 rolls of nickels. This is a good time to fill up lower grade books and look for varieties and errors. There is not much of a market for these partially filled books, so the reward will be more just for the fun of filling some folders with free time I would not normally have available.

The more rewarding task will be filling an 1800 to current type set album. It took some searching to find a new Dansco 7070 type set album. It looks like they don't make these anymore so most coin supply dealers do not have any in stock. I have been gradually picking up raw type coins so I may be able to have it almost completely filled. Now that will be very satisfying when it is full.

Anybody else have any low cost ways to feed their coin addiction?

I hope that all of our fellow members on the East coast came through the storm ok! Dave

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