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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
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 Posted - 06/16/2008 : 16:19:15
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Originally posted by TenBears
Also look for 1987s and commemoratives. 87s were not circulated. I have never found one, but I do believe they exist.
Don't believe anyone if they tell you to look for Indian Head half dollars. Those don't exist in the wild either.
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2008 : 16:53:07
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Originally posted by aboxaweek
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Originally posted by TenBears
Also look for 1987s and commemoratives. 87s were not circulated. I have never found one, but I do believe they exist.
Don't believe anyone if they tell you to look for Indian Head half dollars. Those don't exist in the wild either.
any others other than 87'?
2002 and after were not circulated either. I think the 2001s were circulated, but I do not have conviction on that. Someone else may chime in and provide that answer. I haven't a clue as to why 87s did not get circulated. |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2008 : 22:14:58
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Originally posted by TenBears
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Originally posted by knibloe
This week I got $1000
1 -1944 walker
5-1964
8- 40% silver
4 proofs including a 1970 S
That is a good day of sorting. How did the 1,000 come? Were they boxes or bags, and, if boxes, who boxed them (Brinks, Loomis, Fed)?
I get two boxes per week. The are flat boxes with yellow wrapped rolls. I know that others are sorting them, as many of the halves are marked. Still, I seem to do well every week. In the last month I have found a franklin or a walker every week. I am not sure if they come from the fed, loomis or Brinks. I am fairly certain it is not Brinks. The bank gets their pennies from Loomis, so I assume that they come from Loomis. the marked halves come from the same two sorters week after week. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 06/28/2008 : 12:48:47
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Went to pick up a couple of bags of pennies from the CU this morning, three to be exact, two of which were over $50. ($65 and $62.50. The other was $50. Three out of the last four bags of pennies from here were over full). Also, I picked up the partial bag of half dollars. $653 to be exact. 16 40%ers, and one '46 Walker. Someone scratched several X's on both the front and back of the coin. Oh well, silver is silver....
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 06/28/2008 : 13:10:53
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Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2008 : 13:43:58
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My dad came over and he wanted to help. He found the first one. Boy was he excited. It was fun looking through them with him. It sure didn't take very long with two of us.
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2008 : 15:28:01
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you're right it doe not take long to sort halves. I sorted $500 the other day. Took me 1 1/2 hours to open 50 fed rolls sort (loking at each date) and re-roll in the original wrappers
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 07/02/2008 : 04:20:36
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Decided to sort 1/2s in the Seattle area since the banks in Canada were closed for Canada Day. (ok I needed to be in Seattle anyway. Popped into Key Bank and bought $8 between the two tellers. Scored a 40%. Went to a Bank of America and was told they had a lot. Bought $400 with cash on hand, went to a side table and sorted in bank. Found a 40% in the first 5 rolls. After that things went downhill, and fast. Turned in the first batch for more, sorting $1600 in total. Later batches were all edge marked with green marker, and they said that they thought the coins had been sorted by others. Decided eating was more important then continuing this futile exercise.
Did inject some previous rejects into circulation. Tips in hotel, resturant and somewhere else too. |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 07/02/2008 : 07:47:16
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Nickelless
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JerrySpringer
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 07/02/2008 : 13:03:34
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| Seeing that there is already an 11.29% premium built in to the collection plus a $10 shipping fee, that is a 12.29% premium overall. I ran some numbers quickly on a collection like this, an if you were simply looking for 40% silver, my math says that you need to find at least ~ 64 of them to break even. |
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jadedragon
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Posted - 07/02/2008 : 14:02:44
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Seeing the seller is selling individual 1/2 coins as well, and states right in the auction that he has sorted out any damaged coins - the chances of this bag containing silver is NIL. So easy to edge check for silver I did 1200 face in less then an hour - buy unwrap, check, rewrap, sell, buy etc in $400 batches.
The photo is stock too. He states you will not get these exact coins. He might not even own the coins. If someone bites he'll just sell you his rejects and if no rejects on hand go on a buying run, sort for silver, and ship you the rejects. Nice way to dump halfs if you can find a buyer. Kind of like selling off "unsearched memorials from 1983-2008" at a premium... "you never know what you will find some AU coins!!!" |
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Edited by - jadedragon on 07/02/2008 17:50:21 |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 17:15:32
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Originally posted by legacypac
Seeing the seller is selling individual 1/2 coins as well, and states right in the auction that he has sorted out any damaged coins - the chances of this bag containing silver is NIL. So easy to edge check for silver I did 1200 face in less then an hour - buy unwrap, check, rewrap, sell, buy etc in $400 batches.
The photo is stock too. He states you will not get these exact coins. He might not even own the coins. If someone bites he'll just sell you his rejects and if no rejects on hand go on a buying run, sort for silver, and ship you the rejects. Ni nice way to dump halfs if you can find a buyer. Kind of like selling off "unsearched memorials from 1983-2008" at a premium... "you never know what you will find like some AU coins!!!"
What he said.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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Have $1000 in Halves waiting for m.What to lookfor
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