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Pillar of the Community
United States
4337 Posts |
explain the significance of the $2 if you could
awesome finds for the group as a whole
nice columbian for the money
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New Member
United States
33 Posts |
The $2 note is a 1976 (nothing real special) but the ser# 00000047. Ended up selling it on ebay for $115. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17964 Posts |
I've found quite a few nice coins in dealer's junk trays in the UK. Many dealers over here have a junk tray that is usually filled with common-date GB pre-decimal base metal coins, obsolete Eurozone coins and general junk. But sometimes you get lucky! These US coins cost me between 5p and 50p each... 1820 Large Cent   1858 Flying Eagle cent  1857 Seated Liberty quarter  1900s Barber dime  |
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Valued Member
United States
459 Posts |
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How did the guy not know what he had?! It was like an antique type store that only dealt with junk silver, and probably didn't even go through the stuff they got in. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1053 Posts |
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It was like an antique type store that only dealt with junk silver, and probably didn't even go through the stuff they got in. WOW  |
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Valued Member
United States
371 Posts |
I found an 1876 CC Half Dollar in a jacket dated 1870 on my last visit to the coin shop. Hmm..
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Valued Member
United States
293 Posts |
I once picked out some Mercury dimes out of a 90% box. The big one I scored was a 21-D in AG-3. It had an obverse scratch but hey it was still then like a coin in the $20.00 range. I built up a set of Mercuries that then had all the dates except 16-D and 21-P and sold it at a coin show for a great score. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1590 Posts |
That was a good thing to do Throme, but maybe you could have taken them and then mowed the lawn for a year in return? Heck I mow my neighbors yard for free.
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Valued Member
United Arab Emirates
283 Posts |
I found a US silver Mercury dime... from the bank... in my country (UAE)... inside a roll of 1 Dirham mixed dates. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1208 Posts |
I was working construction on a new Whataburger going into a shopping center parking lot... The shopping center was probably built in the 1950s. We pulled up a large section of the asphalt, and where I was standing the asphalt was laid over a concrete base. I looked down, and sandwiched between the asphalt and concrete was a bright white 1955 Franklin half. It looked like it was just laid there moments ago, not as though it was buried 50+ years. Edited by ratio411
07/23/2013 8:43 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
573 Posts |
When I was a kid, I used to find Mercury dimes in our flower gardens. The odd thing is that I found 5-6 dimes total at 3 different houses. So it wasn't like there was a pocket spill at one place that kept coming to the surface when my mom worked in her flower garden every spring. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There are some dealers that are so busy that they don't have time to check individual coins and just toss 'em all in. And some are just dumb. At a coin show a dealer just put out a box of Indian Head Nickels on his table. He added a sing saying 3 for $1. First one I picked up was a 37D 3 legger in possibly Unc. I tried to say something to him but he was busy shooting the breeze with someone and didn't want to both with me. I picked up several more and those too were all like UNC. Again, I tried to tell him what he had and again, he just said 3/$1. So I took 15 of them and handed him a $5. Not to long ago at another coin show a dealer had a lot of Mercury dimes. Several of them were marked 1945 with FSB. All in 2x2's. I picked up a few of them and only one had full FSB's and for $12.50. Sure wish they all were like that one and for that price. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1554 Posts |
"and some are just dumb".....hmmm? nice to know some collectors have such nice things to say about people who try to do their best selling coins to J Q Public.
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United States
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"and some are just dumb".....hmmm? nice to know some collectors have such nice things to say about people who try to do their best selling coins to J Q Public. I suspect your assuming coin dealers are only there to make collectors happy. In most instances they are there to make money, not friends. Dealers well know that as a general rule they'll never see that same person again. Yes they do their best to sell coins, but for profit. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
I make a lot of finds from junk bins (probably my favorite part of any store), but none that have a very high value - however, they do have a very high value compared to the price I got it for. So I've found a 1908A German mark for $1/12 (circulated VF maybe, lovely subtle red/green toning in places) and plenty more silver (I even made a thread about it in the PM forum). I also make face-value finds: like a Konvertible Markka for $1/5 (pegged to the Deutschmark, now pegged to the Euro but still worth one Deutschmark by using the fixed exchange rate fraction... or, 80 cents), three 500-won coins (1 from 1982, the rest recent) for $1/5 each, 100 yen for $1/5, and other things like that (one $1/5 junk bin was full to bursting of New Sheqalim, worth 30 cents each, so I bought about a dozen). My most recent and favorite finds, though, have been a 1999 proof Franc for $1/5 (okay, I went on a trip, and apparently $1/5 is the national standard of junk bins), a G-4 looking SPEED THE PLOUGH token (my first Canadian colonial issue, made sometime in the 1820s), and a stamp with a 1877 IHC on it for just 13 cents. Now I just need the 1909-S VDB stamp  |
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