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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 20:01:16
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
 Posted - 01/11/2010 : 20:14:05
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Originally posted by knibloe
my second box for the year was completely rank
I'll put you down for a $500 SKUNK  half box. I've gotton a lot of those lately too. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 20:28:05
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$200 nickels gave up 3 WN and 1 buffalo.
One of my pickups has switched from dunbar to brinks so box #2 was my first brinks box.
I'm not unhappy with the switch.
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Jefferson
Penny Pincher Member
165 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 22:44:46
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Starting to work out this semester's ordering scheme, stopped at a bank to pick up some literature and two rolls of dimes.
First roll of the semester: $5 NF String dimes: 1x 1959D Roo
Second roll: skunk
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"Specie is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war." -Thomas Jefferson
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AmalekiDad
Penny Pincher Member
142 Posts |
 Posted - 01/12/2010 : 09:17:19
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I have been blessed by the Ag averages.
Dropped in at my source bank yesterday to order more halves and pickup some pennies. The best teller says, "We have $50 in halves if you want them." I said I wanted all they had. She goes to another teller and brings back some old CWRs that have AbbottCoin, New York, NY, USA on the front. A couple look to be taped together with old tape. It was all I could do to keep from ripping them open on the counter.
ALL silver! All 100 coins are silver!
Here is the final score:
9 Walkers
10 Franklins
64 90% Kennedys
17 40% Kennedys
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AGCoinHunter
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
685 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 10:50:29
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| Great find there AmalekiDad! |
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." - Ayn Rand
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Hitler: Race-based National Socialism
Obama: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 11:00:17
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WOW!!  |
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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ZigMeister
Penny Pincher Member
USA
229 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 11:10:13
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Unbeliev Ag ble! Holy S#@$!
Super congrats! |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 15:43:43
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One box of dimes--one 1962-D silver
$74.00 in halves--one 1967 40% silver
One box of nickels--no silver |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 15:48:12
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Head teller out sick on Monday. Nobody ordered my halves this week. 
Maybe somebody else will get some of the SKUNKs that I've been getting.  |
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– Theodore Roosevelt
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 16:03:24
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AmalekiDad
All I can say is....NICE !!!!!
How many backflips did you do after you opened up these late Christmas gifts? |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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JustSayNoToFiat
Penny Pincher Member
110 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 16:11:46
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quote:
Originally posted by AmalekiDad
I have been blessed by the Ag averages.
Dropped in at my source bank yesterday to order more halves and pickup some pennies. The best teller says, "We have $50 in halves if you want them." I said I wanted all they had. She goes to another teller and brings back some old CWRs that have AbbottCoin, New York, NY, USA on the front. A couple look to be taped together with old tape. It was all I could do to keep from ripping them open on the counter.
ALL silver! All 100 coins are silver!
Here is the final score:
9 Walkers
10 Franklins
64 90% Kennedys
17 40% Kennedys
You, good sir, are my hero. |
It's Half Time...all the time. |
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gothboi30
Penny Collector Member
USA
286 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 16:21:53
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$250 dimes- skunk
$100 nickels- 1 war ('45d) |
Edited by - gothboi30 on 01/13/2010 14:33:42 |
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The Finest
Penny Sorter Member
USA
56 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 18:39:24
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$255 halves
1-40% 1969D (slowly working my way on to the leader board)
AmalekiDad, great score on the rolls of silver! I'm thinking about puttin one of those pics as my new desktop background :) |
A fool and his money are soon parted. I would pay someone a lot of money to explain that to me.-Homer Simpson |
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zerocd
Penny Hoarding Member
555 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 20:07:49
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1-Box Nickels
2-bufs one no date one a 1936D
4-Boxes Halves
Box 1
1-1961P Ben
2-1964
Box 2
1-1964
Box 3
1-1966
Box 4
No silver
1-2009P
1-2002P
One of the new source banks cannot get halves this week so I get 4 more boxes tomorrow and one is a new source.
I'll get 10 next week if all goes well. I stocked up on pennies and nickels.
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AmalekiDad
Penny Pincher Member
142 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 20:45:13
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I did not do any back flips but I did call the bank to see if they received any other coins when they acquired the halves. No luck.
Thanks to everyone for the nice words. I stopped at 2 other banks today and asked for halves one said ‘no’ the other said “We will sell you all $11.50 that we have but you will have to talk to our account manager about opening an account here.” I got the loose coins – no keepers, I did not open an account.
I want to point out that I’m still only #3 on the top ten list and my percentage is only 1.31%. I’ve looked at 8100 coins this year. I’ve also averaged 7 skunks out of 8 boxes.
I asked the best teller what kind of chocolate they like. She said "We take any kind of chocolate here.” Do any of you have some advice for me?
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Corsair
Penny Hoarding Member
811 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 21:03:32
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| I ordered 4 boxes of halves for this Thursday; it's the first time I'll be getting so many. Maybe I can have some luck like AmalekiDad? |
So long, Realcent 1. Come visit us at Realcent.org! |
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chris6084
Penny Collector Member
303 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 21:10:53
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| 1 box of nicks, skunk |
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Dumpster Diver
Penny Collector Member
USA
474 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 21:28:30
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$3,002 Halves
-$2 Gas Station register Skunk
6 Boxes...
1st was a DREAM Box: (The rest so not much)
-(18) Walkers-oldest '36S
-(16) Bens
-(No '64s...weird)
-(13) 40%s
-'86 Statue of Liberty Clad Commem
-2000 Ecuador 50 Centavos km#108-Steel
-(2) Clad Proofs-'81, '02
All other 5 boxes:
-(8) 40%s
Also $4 Nickels...1 pre '60. Ag Skunk
Hoping to get the halves companion box soon! |
"You're not really gonna throw that out...are you"? |
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Dumpster Diver
Penny Collector Member
USA
474 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 21:32:27
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Congrats to you AmalekiDad!!!
Those are some sweet old wrappers! |
"You're not really gonna throw that out...are you"? |
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AGCoinHunter
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
685 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 21:54:19
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Picked up (2) 1k bags today. Only had time to do one of them. Here is the results for 1k.
47 - 40's (one S MM bicentennial)
2 - Ken 90's
1 - Ben
3 - 87 NIFC
1 - 1995 Atlanta Olympic Baseball Commerative Clad half.
3 - Impaired proofs
Oh yea, got an extra $2.47 in mis-sorted change in the bag also. |
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." - Ayn Rand
________________________________________________
Lenin: Class-based International Socialism
Hitler: Race-based National Socialism
Obama: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
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cecropia_moth
Penny Pincher Member
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 22:09:03
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$500.00 Halves.
Coin Wrap Inc. box dated 02/23/2009.
Neat box of stuff!!!
(1) 90% - 64
(3) 40% - (3)67
(2) NIFCs - 04P, 05D
1986-S (proof) Statue of Liberty commemorative half dollar (1st MODERN commem. half for us).
Lastly...too weird. Magician's coin (???) - 1980-P Kennedy Half (obverse) w/ 1967 British One Penny on the reverse. It appears that the 80-P Kennedy has been hollowed out and the 67 British Penny is seated inside.
Hopefully pictures to follow tomorrow.
Take care,
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uthminsta
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1872 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 22:19:29
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I've been kinda cheating all along, but I think some might like my story. One of my best friends... his wife works at a bank. One day at their house, we were talking about what it's like to be a bank teller, and all the funny stuff people bring in... and she brought out a cigar box (isn't it always a cigar box?) with a bunch of coins in it. It was everything she had ever gotten as a teller over the years. Lots of silver. So I tell her if she ever wants to sell it, I can make her some money. Long story short, they had some hard times and needed to sell it, so I did. Made them a buncha money.
Chapter two. She calls me one day and says someone brought in a bunch of silver half dollars, do you want any? I said I will take them all, no matter how many there are. So that time we EACH got over $100 face, mostly 90%, at face value. Again, I sold them, and made us both some money. Now she gets it: call Aaron when stuff comes in!
Chapter three. In the summer of 2009, we moved several hundred miles away. But maybe 3-4 other times since, she has had people come in with large amounts of all silver, not always halves, and one time someone even brought in over 800 wheats. And every time, she says I can only offer you face value for this, and every time... they accept. So each time she wraps it up and sends it to me and I make her some quick bucks. And I get a small cut. Plus the knowledge that they're being sold to someone who won't make the same mistake and take them back to the bank!
So here we are in 2010. We went and visited our good friends for a couple days while we were on vacation. She told me she got moved up to the main branch (of three in the town). And she had a PENNY BOX FULL of silver halves. Yep. $326 face, all 40%. Plus three 90% halves - two Ken64s and one Ben. Strange thing is, these coins are all rolled by date! Not BU, but solid date circulated rolls! This was a hoarder's stash! She said she thinks the guy probably died and his wife brought them in.
Anyway, here I am with a box full of 40%ers. By the time I had driven back home, I already had the 90%ers and four rolls of 40%ers sold.
Oh, and one more thing. She's totally hooked now. The main branch gets all the coin from the other branches in town, and this branch has an automated coin counter in the lobby. She told the person who changes the bags that she is going to look through the half bag when it gets full. She even told me that right now it has over $700, so it should be full soon. AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN NEED TO BUY THE BAG! She can just look through the bag whenever she isn't busy, take the ones she wants, replace them with the ones she already has, and give it back when she's done! Sheesh!
So there you have it. My silver connection. Anyone want some 40%ers? :) I gotta BUNCH of 'em! |
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Computer Jones
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - 01/13/2010 : 00:13:52
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Originally posted by uthminsta
I've been kinda cheating all along,
BIG IMPORTANT SNIP
Talk about being in the right place at the right time!!!!
You're One VERY lucky SOB Nice Person.
I hope this stays working forever for you!!!
PS - You do buy a Lotto tick every time she calls, right? |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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uthminsta
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1872 Posts |
Posted - 01/13/2010 : 01:18:48
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| Funny thing. There's a coin show the first Sunday of each month near me. I have a dealer that gives me a decent deal on whatever quantity I come up with. But my friend usually calls just a few days before the show... late enough that she can't priority mail them to me in time to sell. But I have other buyers. And now I might have even more, eh? |
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