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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, this is like finding a shipwreck.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I wouldn't keep them in a jar, they will contact each other too much. Put them in rolls or better yet...tubes. Mint coins in tubes resist the spots a lot better than in paper rolls.
Nice find!!
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Nice find. Is this Gidgit from Burlington? Headon road?
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Pillar of the Community
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burlington yes, headon road no
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United States
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I wonder if you have enough examples to put together a progression of the date doubling. I don't know much about minting but it seems likely that yours were minted at about the same time. I once saw a progression of Voyageur reverses showing the pines disappearing behind the canoe (or something like that - it was 40 years ago); perhaps something like this with the 79 doubling would fetch a premium?
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United States
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Nice find! I love REAL copper cents. My collection runs from 1908-1996. No zinc or steel plated in it.
The doubling on the date is icing on the cake, too.
Edited by DoubleEagle20
11/03/2013 9:00 pm
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i haven't counted but I'm sure I have over 100 double date coins so far. I am keeping them in a jar with a lid and I have ordered 1000 2x2 holders and I dont think I have any ms-65's yet but I'm sure I will find a few I think most are ms-63-64, I'm going to keep a couple of each variety (triple cocoon filings on leaf die clash etc..) but thats it as I will try to sell some "partially" searched rolls as well as never opened rolls and I might try to sell some singles as a buy it now If you find MS-63/64/65 with double dates then those should sell quite well. |
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you definitely have some horseshoes going on.
1- the bank actually still had some cents
2- they hadnt returned them to the mint yet
3- they werent allowed to sell them to you
and then you find these...what a find.
my $1500 worth of cents that I bought before the no more pennies date, has yielded a few 1979,76 rolls etc, but they were re rolled by someone (i would say around 1979 or 80) as the appearance degrades substantially as you go backwards. hopefully I find some nice examples like yours.
also I need to ask about these tubes. would the plastichange rolls be good enough?(you know the ones that button up the side). I hear the americans talking about tubes but I assumed it was because they dont have the plastichange ones. at least thats what I gathered when I brought a roll to montana and was asked where in the world I got it.
Edited by wazzappenning
11/05/2013 8:58 pm
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Wazzappening, tubes are better than plastic for many reasons, such as diffusing sunlight and preventing it from hitting the coins directly as well as easily labelled and stacked for storage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Think of all the quality cents you've saved from destruction that will get distributed to collectors who'll take care of them.
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sorry to boost an old thread I just thought I would let you know how this has worked for me, at first I started listing these 1 roll at a time in auction format and the first few rolls averaged US $50 - $80 a roll and as time went on the price started dropping to where I stopped auction format and started selling buy it now for US $30 per roll or best offer ,i have sold around 125 rolls now ranging from US $1.04 - $80 per roll with an average guess of around $25 a roll, I still have some on ebay and periodically still sell a few (sold 25 rolls last week) but I think I might sell just a few more and put the rest away for a couple decades to see how they sell once the market has dried up after being flooded! and maybe I will once again wake up this thread to show results in the future |
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Well that was a prosperous endeavor..thumbs up.
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An excellent read! I haven't seen this topic before so I'm happy to have read it!
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very nice.... I was buying OBW rolls from 77/78/79 for $5 when I was getting rolls from 1953-Date (only date I was missing was 1954). I actually found a few rolls had penny's rotated dies, about 50-60 degrees. Think I had found 8 in total averaged $50-100 a piece. The DD coins I sold for $3-8 a piece
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02/28/2016 12:48 am
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