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hey afcop, can you put me on the list for silver dimes or no?
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Wow, sounds like a HuckleBerry Finn adventure, I used to fantasize about finding an old trunk FULL of old coins and stuff, and hey Brent, Salmon and King Crab sound GREAT, Love both of them..lol
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Adam - I can't promise anything. Mom might not want to sell - and its hers, not mine. I did recommend to her to cash in all of the stuff that is simply just face value - lots of 80's halves, about $300 in bicentennial quarters, bunches of 46-64 jeffersons, etc. I'll tell her what to look for in each denomination for errors, or at least what years to set aside.
If she cashes in the face value stuff along with the Susan B's (after looking for wide rims) she can pay for her long desired Alaskan Cruise.
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lots of 80's halves Just make sure not to throw away any 1987s. |
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Hmm, I really didn't think the bicentennials would pay off. Many of his haven't seen circulation in 25-30 years or more. He always pulled them from pocket change, etc. I do remember him doing that.
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afcop; that's an amazing post....makes me  I want to address your LWCs. Two steel boxes with 150 rolls of LWCs in each is 300 rolls (or 15,000 coins). If - every one of those coins is only in Fine condition - every one of those coins is 1933 or earlier and you placed a low average, even as low as $1/coin on them; do that math. If - everyone of those coins is in Fine or above condition - they are coins from 1909 - 2006 and you place a low average, even as low as fifty cents/coin; do that math. These are hugely oversimplified hypotheses. However, if/when you plan to divest yourself of any of the denominations, I hope these hypotheses compel you to take a very methodical approach to sorting, cataloging, and appraising them in such a way that you dont end up hugely shortchanged. if you get into a selling frenzy too quickly, that'll happen. I dare say that a roll of Fine 1909 - 1933 LWCs with no key or semi key dates (and not all 1910, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 P) could be is worth at least $50 - $100... ...and that is just a 4:26 am math-guess-class-conjecture. Then there supply and buyer demand to take into consideration. Congratulations on your coins. Please find someone who will compel and encourage you to make any divestment a process, not an event. Jim |
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you could sell them as unsearched, it also might help me to fill some holes.
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Awesome find! Thanks Dad!  Great job educating your Mom to the value of your Dad's collection, too!!. |
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Thanks everyone for the comments.
J_H_S - I told my mom to figure .25 cents per penny for the wheats and do the math......that is simply assuming a sale price of $12.50 p/roll. She is a pretty good math whiz and was stunned. She knew they were probably worth something, but didn't realize it could be that much.
Honestly, other than the knee replacement, she is still young (63) and healthy. I told her to be in no hurry to sell anything other than the face value stuff, and that later this year or early next year after we've sorted everything, to decide what she wants to do with it.
She is involved in knee rehab for the next several weeks, and will be coming to stay with me in a few days, so there probably won't be any revisiting these coins before June.
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This thread is about as interesting as any I have had the pleasure to read!
There is some very good advice given, and it appears that it was taken. Brent, Fill her to the gunnels, and enjoy doing what you do, because I also enjoy watching the adventures you guys do, on "The Deadliest Catch"! BE SAFE!
Dick
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That's awesome! I would give the ones that are covered in motor oil an acetone soak for a bit, then a rinse with distilled water. That sounds like a pretty massive hoard! My dad is a major stamp collector/dealer, but he also has a few coins that I'd been going through off and on, and helped him put together partial sets of Buffalo nickels and Indian cents. He lets me pick out a few every now and then for my collection. I may be interested in upgrading some of my early lincoln philly cents, so if she wants to get rid of some of them, put them up on the BST for us to drool over! :-) |
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I will say one thing - if she does decide to sell some off this fall - this site will be where its listed.
Keith
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Is that what common date Wheat's in reasonably good shape will go for? .25 A piece? About the BiCentennial quarters, that's interesting too, I have a bank-roll of uncirculated I wanna dispose of
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