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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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 Posted - 04/26/2008 : 08:38:59
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This auction is on Ebay. It is for 50 rolls of what are going to be common date wheats. They are up to $10.00 per roll. The seller tells a good story, he found them behind the furnace in the basement of a house he bought. And they are wrapped in some mysterious paper. I don't think the paper is all that mysterious. I know the better story you come up with on Ebay the higher your pennies sell for but this is ridiculous. Can any of you explain it?
I wish I could get $10.00 a roll for my common date wheats!!!
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starwarsgeek171
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
651 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 08:53:00
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I know that I'm too old to say this, but OMG!!!
A fool and his money are soon parted. |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 09:04:50
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I would like to know how she knows they are all wheats when she said she didn't look through them...
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lilyrdape
Penny Pincher Member
USA
152 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 09:06:19
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| 20cents a wheat anyone want to buy some from me lol :p |
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nckt
Penny Collector Member
USA
304 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 10:05:40
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| The person is a liar, they sell tons of coins and stuff and on all the different coins it says i just found this in a box behind the furnace in the basement. How much room is there behind the furnace in his basement?!?!?!? |
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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1197 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 10:48:12
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I agree Bluegill I always get a kick out people selling "UNSEARCHED" bags but then you look at their feedback and they have sold dozens of better date wheats one at a time. Don't these people look at feedback before they bid. I guess I don't feel sorry for them.
If you think about it there really is no such thing as an "UNSEARCHED" wheat penny. If it has been pulled from circulation it has been searched. If you find an 09 S VDB or a 14D I don't think you are going to throw it in the bag with the rest of the common dates you found.
I think the only "UNSEARCHED" pennies there are, are the ones you pull out of circulation. |
COPPER - the "poormans" precious metal!!!
SELLING - $100.00 face copper shipped to you for $189.00 machine rolled or bagged - PM me if your interested. |
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 04/26/2008 : 11:43:38
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I sent the seller a message saying nice scam on the wheats.
Just like anything in the world if you are dishonest you can make a fortune but it will come back. |
Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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starwarsgeek171
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
651 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 11:46:09
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"How much room is there behind the furnace in his basement?!?!?!?"
It's like the Tardis on Dr. Who. |
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Centsearcher
Penny Pincher Member
USA
107 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 11:46:41
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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1197 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 10:23:54
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| The sale is over $500.00 for 50 rolls of common date wheats!! Can you believe that. I have several 5 gallon pails full I would sell at that price. |
COPPER - the "poormans" precious metal!!!
SELLING - $100.00 face copper shipped to you for $189.00 machine rolled or bagged - PM me if your interested. |
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moboman
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2555 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 10:50:58
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Originally posted by Bluegill
I would like to know how she knows they are all wheats when she said she didn't look through them...
Wow that is exactly what I was wondering!!!
Here's what I think every time I see "unsearched". IF there is 1 $1000 coin in the lot, wouldnt you search the rolls instead of selling them?
Why would the person buy a lot of coins from an estate auction if they didnt know anything about coins?
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If they inherited them,
why wouldnt they pickup a red book or search the internet to find out what's valuable If they didnt know anything about coins. |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 11:48:13
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I agree with everyone else who has posted that there's no such thing as "unsearched" wheats. Granted, one person might sort for one thing (steels and key dates, for instance) and the next guy might sort for another (error coins), but *everything* gets sorted to some extent.
Simply the fact that the wheats are separated from the post-58s means that the coins have been searched. Unless the coins are from the pocket change bucket of a 150-year old man who stopped adding to it in 1958. 
Auctions like this remind me of those postings on Craigslist that offer a $10 roll of "valuable" bicentennial quarters for $25. |
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Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1197 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 11:53:47
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My thoughts exactly Moboman, with the slight possibility that there might be a valuable coin in a bag I know that no one out there is going to pass that bag along without looking through it. That's just human nature, curiosity is going to get to everyone.
I also get a kick out of everyone saying the bag is unsearched by "me". That doesn't mean it wasn't searched by one of their kids or wife. But I suppose technically they are not lying if they did not search the bag. But if you are going to sell a bag on Ebay it is pretty much standard practice to put "UNSEARCHED" in you title and description. And the more outrageous story your come up with the higher your bag will sell for. I guess as long as people keep falling for it there will always be unsearched bags on Ebay. |
COPPER - the "poormans" precious metal!!!
SELLING - $100.00 face copper shipped to you for $189.00 machine rolled or bagged - PM me if your interested. |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 17:21:00
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| the rolls look as if they were cut open to look through them. He might have found them in his recently purchesed estate behind the furnase in a pot, but i'm pretty sure he searched them. |
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 18:00:43
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"I dont know anything about coins so it wouldnt do me any good to look through them."
They never said they didn't look through them. They just said it wouldn't do them any good. Well I guess that is playing with words, but I don't think they claimed they were unsearched.
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 04/27/2008 : 18:21:07
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| When we moved into our house I found a whole bundle of thin solid zinc rods by the furnance. Maybe I'll sell them on ebay. |
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 18:33:22
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Originally posted by Ardent Listener
When we moved into our house I found a whole bundle of thin solid zinc rods by the furnance. Maybe I'll sell them on ebay.
I thought about finding some wheats behind my furnace. I figure I could say it wouldn't do me any good to search them. (which is true bc I would know there wasn't a key coin in there :) |
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"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, 1966. |
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Posted - 04/28/2008 : 08:58:31
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im going to sell the entire space behind my furnace on ebay....
someone will buy it.....afterall...its unsearched and could be full of wheat pennies! |
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2008 : 13:02:21
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| These must be a hoard from a person collecting coppers before the Mint stated making Aluminum Cents in 1973. He then died and we have the fruits of his labor. Or some other laod of . . . |
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Would someone PLEASE explain this to me??????
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