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I just bought some group of coins for $230 and I think it turned out to be a pretty good deal. I got 101 silver dimes and a 3 cent nickel piece. The 3 cent nickel is labeled ms 63 but I don't know if it's right or not. It definitely looks like it hasn't been circulated, and it has full vertical lines on the reverse. Love it. Here's what I got: 1865 3 cent nickel Mercury dimes: 1919 cleaned 1935 polished 1936 1938 1939 1939 d 1940 1941 (x2) 1941 d 1941 s (x2) one is MS 1942 (x2) 1942 d (x3) 1942 s (x4) 1943 (x3) 1943 d 1944 (x2) 1944 s 1945 (x2) Roosevelt dimes: 1946 (x2) 1946 d 1947 (x2) 1947 s MS 1948 1948 d 1949 1951 1952 1953 1953 d (x2) 1954 (x2) 1956 1957 1958 proof 1958 MS 1958 d (x3) 1959 1959 d 1960 proof 1960 1960 d (x5) 1961 1961 d (x2) 1962 d (x6) 1963 (x2) 1963 d (x7) 1964 (x14) 1964 d (x7) Quite a few 1960's roosevelts were MS as well, but it's not a big deal. |
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Let's see some pictures, especially the 3CN!  Edited by oih82w8
09/14/2012 3:56 pm
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Errrr, I'll try but all I have is my phone. Give me a sec.
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yay, can't beat new coins!
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Nice deal. Under melt. The nice ones are a bonus.
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Very good deal for that :P id have bought it too
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I'm reselling the dimes to get my money back, I'm just going to keep all the ones I need and all of the mercs. I'm going to switch them out for a bunch of 1964's I have from roll searching :)
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very smart idea murrell I have to do something like that as well I'm sitting on dozens of 1964s as well haha
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VERY good deal. Great snag. The 3 cent was struck slightly off center as well.
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Well struck 3CN. I don't know much about the strike characteristics of that certain date, but I do know the majority of 3CN business strikes are weak at the III. Nice!  Edited by LogPotato
09/14/2012 7:44 pm
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yeah I really wish I had good photo taking abilities. I sold a 3 cent nickel on ebay for more than I bought it. The person who bought it said the coin looked way better in person. I could make more money on ebay with better photos :/ All well. But yeah, so in the end I get to keep 6 silver dimes and the 3 cent nickel and sell the rest to get my money back. Plus I'm swapping out all of my roll search duplicates to keep everything good. pretty happy with this seller. I have bought from him previously and was really happy the first time. |
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If you are looking to sell them, consider getting a used album and putting them in there. People eat that stuff up for some reason.
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Sound like a great deal. $250 in melt value for the dimes alone and a very nice Three Cent Nickel! A few of those Mercs look to be uncirculated or at least high AU. Edited by Joe2007
09/15/2012 01:51 am
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Nice score! That three-center makes me want to own one . . . just lovely. (And dimes are such useful little coins, I love them so much even when they're not-really-collectable circulated moderns.) Murellington, may I make a suggestion? Pick yourself up an Olympus camera--you can get a decent one brand-new for under two hundred bucks and it'll do everything but your dishes. I made a "studio" for my coins by lining an old, clean candleholder with white paper and resting my camera on top set on super-macro mode, then using a square of white paper in the holder to colour-correct on the computer--if you've ever seen any of my photos, that's how just about all of them were taken. If you're selling stuff that's worth a nice chunk of change, the camera will pay for itself--the pictures you get will be HUGE, which aids in singling out nice details (e.g., full steps on a Jefferson nickel, mintmarks, die doubling, etc.--I've even taken pictures of some of my 19-teens Lincolns with blurry mintmarks to identify them), and once you have the details you want the picture can be scaled down in a program like GIMP. |
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ninamason- How much would a camera like that approx cost? Do you have any examples of pictures you took, and how much was your camera?
And yeah I really want a camera. to help sell coins easier, but also because I like to have an album on my computer with pictures of all of my coins. They just look bad right now.
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