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UDEric
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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 Posted - 04/21/2010 : 16:48:32
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So I was sorting through a box of Halves today and I noticed that probably close to 100 of the coins were marked with what appeared to be a date (3-24) in permanent marker.
It seems like someone had maybe sorted through those coins already? None of the rolls that were marked had any silver in them.
The box as a whole had 7 40%
I was just wondering if this is common? Or if anyone has run into anything like this before? Only my 2nd box sorted.
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kentucky7887
Penny Sorter Member
USA
30 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2010 : 17:05:29
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| Yea I have seen marker marks on them before. I tried marking some of mine for a while just to see if they would come back to me in a future search but it was just adding more time to my sorting. |
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hobo finds
Penny Hoarding Member
838 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2010 : 17:17:27
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I mark mine 4/20 |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2010 : 18:25:44
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I've seen all kinds of marking on halves. Some mark the edges in various colors; some put a small black dot in Kennedy's ear (fearful of defacing the coin?); others put a date on the coin; others put their initials on a coin; others put a small star on the coin; others mark them up with some sort of ensignia; others put a hammer and sicle on Kennedy's face (must have been a Russian marking these); some use red, some use blue, and some use green to mark their coins. Sometimes halves are marked with two or more different distinct markers (these are very colorful). The big sorters don't want to waste their time marking coins because it slows down their sort time. I've even seen 40%ers marked. Personally, I think it's a waste of your sort time.  |
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Computer Jones
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2010 : 22:15:08
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Originally posted by UDEric
So I was sorting through a box of Halves today
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The box as a whole had 7 40%
I was just wondering if this is common? Or if anyone has run into anything like this before? Only my 2nd box sorted.
Finding a box with 7 Ag's sure ain't common for me any more :(
Finding Skunk boxes with 900+ coins having over a dozen different types of marks is all to common these days. |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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fasteddy
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 04/23/2010 : 09:38:27
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I have found 22 different makings the best/worst is a red bullseye on jfk's head... I had my youngest child mark my first 5000 $ worth of halves...I dump at a credit union and pickup up at three different banks...I need to replace two of the banks...I am starting to get my marked coins through those two banks. Their silver vein is not very good anyways
My observation....I have found silver in boxes with marked coin and many boxes with no marked coins were skunks. weird
i have not done any halve searching in a couple of weeks...ready to get back to it next week....NASCAR visited TEXAS and it was fun altough a bit wet from the rain |
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cesario
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 04/23/2010 : 17:09:20
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Originally posted by Country
others put a hammer and sicle on Kennedy's face (must have been a Russian marking these);
Oddly enough....
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In 1946 when the Roosevelt dime came out, the U.S. mint was flooded with queries about the initials J.S. at the base of Franklin Roosevelt's neck. Quite a few outraged folks thought the letters stood for Joseph Stalin, and that it was all a Communist plot, until Designer John Sinnock patiently explained that the initials were his. Now there is a flurry over the new Kennedy half-dollar, and it's the Reds again. Complaints are coming into the Denver mint that there is a hammer and sickle on the coin. Wearily, the mint's Chief Sculptor and Engraver Gilroy Roberts, 59, explains: "It's my monogram, a G. and an R. in script, combined. It might look like two sickles maybe. But it looks nothing like a hammer and sickle at all. You've got to have a slanted mind to see that there."
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