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Congratulations!  |
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I have nobody else to tell that will remotely understand my excitement Dude we are here for you!  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Thanks all for sharing in my excitement! My wife tried her best to feign it. ha.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Congratulations! I would be excited too! More so if I had a whopper right now.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you would like a bunch of S-mints from the '30s, '40s and 50s at no charge other than postage, just PM me.
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Nice. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice! I've been collecting for 40 years but still get a thrill when I find an "S" coin in change.
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still get a thrill when I find an "S" coin in change. same here  |
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very nice! I'm curious though - which coast are you closer to? Atlantic or Pacific?
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which coast are you closer to? Atlantic or Pacific? Live in Indiana.  Don't feel close to either, but technically Atlantic. |
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Quote:Live in Indiana. Don't feel close to either, but technically Atlantic. Ah ok an East-ender.. So finding an 'S' coin that far over is even better, I'm a West-ender (Arizona) and I hardly ever see Philly coins over here. |
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Ah ok an East-ender.. So finding an 'S' coin that far over is even better, I'm a West-ender (Arizona) and I hardly ever see Philly coins over here. Back in 1974 the mint somehow got the idea that countless millions of one cent coins were being set aside every year and this especially applied to the S-mints. I'm sure it was not nearly so many as they had come to believe and today BU rolls of all S-mints of the era are higher than the others. They did something very unusual and shipped millions of these to the east where they were mixed in with the output of other mints. they also brought in other mint cents to mix with the S-mints. The thinking was if they made it harder to get clean solid date rolls fewer would be saved. It must have worked at least a little because the '74 is the highest priced roll. All three of the '74 cents come as large dates and small dates with all mint set coins being large dates. Mintages were large even for the sm dt so they've attracted little interest but nice pristine examples of all the sm dts are not very common and the S-mint is somewhat elusive, especially in quantity. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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