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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 08/05/2010 : 19:05:09
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I went to a coin store and saw a 1995 double die "liberty" penny. I asked the coin store owner where he got it and he said someone had found it locally and sold it to him. He had a $40 price tag on it.
I told him I should start looking for them and he agreed.
For those of you who look for errors. What dates/mint marks do you look for errors. Do you put them all in a bucket during the week and sit down once a week and search them for errors?
Thanks
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1664 Posts |
Posted - 08/05/2010 : 20:32:26
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i look for them but it is a lot of extra work. 40 for the 1995 doubled die sounds kinda high unless its high mint state. so many were found in 95 in mint bags that it made it worth less.
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If you look at everything your more opt to find something new or undiscovered. |
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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
425 Posts |
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fb101
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USA
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2010 : 06:59:49
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I don't look through the zincs anymore. that's an amazing tally BMAN. While searching wide AM's i never found one 99, but I still looked at that year in hopes of finding one.
I think when it comes to searching zincs for error/varieties it all boils down to why you're searching for them. If it's to find them and collect them then by all means have fun doing this.
If it's to make a profit; at least for me, sorting massive amounts of copper keeping wheats and other oddities outweighed zinc hunting.
I think finding 84's and 95's were very fun things, but like pennysaved said above; Buying a mint 1995 ddo basically amounts to sorting/selling 3 $100 lots of copper.
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AGCoinHunter
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
685 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2010 : 09:28:23
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I always look for the 1999 wide AM, I've found 5 so far.
5? Holy Crap, thats a lot of those. I continue to look for a 99WAM and still have yet to get one. Plenty of 98 & 00 though. Have you sold them or hanging onto them? |
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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
425 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2010 : 15:48:48
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I've sold 4 of them between $100-$165 each and I still have one. Anybody interested?
Another guy in my coin club has found 6 1999WAMs and he still has all of them. |
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copperhead57
Penny Collector Member
USA
255 Posts |
Posted - 08/07/2010 : 10:55:50
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| I have found four 1995 double dies in circulation. I usually get around $25.00 for them. |
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TheJonasCollegeFund
Penny Collector Member
USA
381 Posts |
Posted - 08/07/2010 : 11:57:19
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| Found me another wide am. This one was a 1998. Now I need the 2000 to make a set. Found the 1999 earlier this year. The 1998 isn't worth much but it's worth more than a cent! |
MD Totals: Started Aug16th.(Updated Sept10th) 819 clad/cu coins/$41.13
Quarters-78
Dimes-122+1 silver roosie (1957)
Nickels-81 (56d,53d)
Copper Pennies-147
Zinc Pennies-386
Wheats-5 (36,36,46,46d,50d) |
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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
425 Posts |
Posted - 08/07/2010 : 21:35:52
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| JonasCollegeFund I could send you a 2000WAM for free unless you just want to find your own... |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2010 : 10:17:39
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Originally posted by PennySaved
I went to a coin store and saw a 1995 double die "liberty" penny. I asked the coin store owner where he got it and he said someone had found it locally and sold it to him. He had a $40 price tag on it.
I told him I should start looking for them and he agreed.
For those of you who look for errors. What dates/mint marks do you look for errors. Do you put them all in a bucket during the week and sit down once a week and search them for errors?
Thanks
Since I hand sort, I look at each penny as I come to it. You never know what you might find. Get your hands on a good book, like Strike It Rich With Pocket Change that has good pictures in it for reference and then memorize the main things to look for as far as years/errors, etc. Or, if you have high speed and the patience go to the web sites that have good pictures of the errors and memorize the main ones. But, I still check over every coin. You never know what you might find. It could be the first one found for a new error. Don't think, it won't be me that finds it, think someone has to be the first one to find it, why not me?!!!
Check out the Trail Dies web site too. Those are beginning to become more popular errors as are any coin with some sort of die clash.
My system is to work on rolls amounting to 200 coins to search at one time. So, four rolls of pennies or dimes and five rolls of nickels. That takes me just about one hour to unroll, count, carefully look over each coin, reroll (counting as I do this again to ensure no mistakes were made if I took out a coin and might have forgotten to replace it, etc). I keep stats on the rolls searched too, so I do a roll, record info, then move on to next roll. When the four or five rolls are finished I then record the amount of time spent in the notebooks I keep for that so that when I give my son his 25th birthday coin project gift I will know how much time I spent on it for him and will include a little note about it. A gift of love.
Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.  |
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rodebaugh
Penny Collector Member
USA
377 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2010 : 10:43:43
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Wow PTP now that’s putting a hard eye to things.
I do a box in about 90-100min. My searches for keeps include copper pre 82’s, 82’s weighed on a scale at the end, copper Canadians, wheats, oddities, and Wide AM’s.
Probably miss a fair amount of minor errors, but I can hand sort a lot more coin this way.
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2010 : 14:37:10
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Rodebaugh.......actually it is probably putting a "disfunctional" eye to it.
I use a lighted stand magnifier and then use one of three different loupes if I think something warrants a bit of a closer inspection. I also picked up a small hand held microscope type device at the FUN Show in January for really close-up inspection.
I just can't seem to go through the coins any faster than 200 in an hour. Between the vision problems that slow me down, the other neurological type symptoms are beginning to worsen so the fingers aren't working quicker as they should by now with this muscle memory of searching coins but are actually becoming slower so I struggle with just turning the coins over at times.
Still and all, it is something to do that I enjoy, can do with my health limitations, and occasionally I am rewarded with some cool "gee whiz, that's neat" type coin to keep or just to tell others about in the future.
I've been known to keep a few Canadian too as I just love maple leaves. And, the son's and his wife's birth years are zinc years so I keep those as well as any sort of cool error I might find.
As I said, it is a fun hobby that I can do without costing me too much money as it appears that more and more will be going out to the medical profession for both my husband and myself. More tests ordered for me for this week and next week. Next week's tests fall into the category of cruel and inhumane treatment.......can I file a complaint with the Geneva Convention???????
Years ago when we owned our tackle store we used to chuckle silently to ourselves when our "older" customers would come in and tell of how they had to plan their lives around their doctor's appointments. Sadly, we have reached that stage in our lives and it appears that we are in the running for keeping our doctors in business...no help needed from any of their other patients.
Enjoy your coin searches, everyone, no matter how detailed they might be.
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bsno2865
Penny Sorter Member
USA
62 Posts |
 Posted - 08/16/2010 : 15:24:09
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Thanks,I enjoyed reading that. Nice to see that you still enjoy the hobby. |
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Now motivated to look for error zincs
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