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Valued Member
United States
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I have recently purchased someone's personal silver collection and a handful are still wrapped in littletons plastic wrappers. War Nickels, Roosevelts, and merc dimes. I want to take them out of the plastic but my question is, does the wrapper have any value to them? I doubt it but I wanted others opinions before I did so. Thanks! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Littletons plastic wrappers? The wrapper maybe decreasing the value of the coin.  Just kidding. You can go ahead and free your coins. Wrappers from Littleton add no value. |
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Moderator
 United States
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Littletons plastic wrappers? The wrapper maybe decreasing the value of the coin.
I wouldn't call that too awful far from the truth. Steve Contursi, they aren't. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To be honest, with Littleton charging $19 for a 40% silver half, they really rip people off.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Littleton is slowly developing a nastiy reputation. Take the coins out of the plastic from them. Not a good advertisement item.
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New Member
United States
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I figured this would be as good a topic as any for my first post here! ...I guess ultimately it's just a matter of personal preferences. Lots of people do leave their coins in those wrappers. You'll sometimes hear them referred to as lollipop wrappers...They are archivally safe, with no PVC, so they are fine for long term storage, and they typically have the item number/description/grade on them which can be handy for record keeping. But, yeah, they do have that Littleton stigma, so that's certainly something too. Also, it's rather amazing how many people think that the item number on that wrapper is actually the price! I think some unscrupulous people out there may be re-selling them based on that...Like a 1930 Buffalo nickel in VG is item # 708.08...there's been more than one instance with pretty sad people finding out their coin is not worth $700! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have seen these Littleton coins on ebay. They are often advertised as mint sealed...talk about uninformed sellers! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote: I think some unscrupulous people out there may be re-selling them based on that...Like a 1930 Buffalo nickel in VG is item # 708.08...there's been more than one instance with pretty sad people finding out their coin is not worth $700! This is true, and I HAVE seen people selling them based on the Littleton numbers as the price. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I have several ASE's from Littleton in the clamshell packages that will produce a nice rim tone, especially if you crack the seal and let it breath a little. |
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New Member
United States
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To be honest, with Littleton charging $19 for a 40% silver half, they really rip people off. It's actually a lot worse than that. I won't bore everyone with all the thousands of examples, but two that stick out currently are the 1964 Kennedy in MS60 for only $40.95(!) and the 2013 ASE. Depending on which catalog you're ordering from, it's either $44.95 or $51.95. That's for just a basic bullion, raw, ungraded example. ...Sorry if it seems like I'm hijacking the thread, if it's better for me to start a new Littleton thread, someone let me know please. |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thank you everyone for your input! My coins are free from the plastic and I am certainly happy to not have paid Littleton coin prices.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I got a 1958-D Lincoln Cent from my ex-girlfriend and it is in one of those Littleton wrappers. I still have it in the wrapper because I don't feel like using up a flip for it if I remove it, but I certainly don't attribute value to it based on that wrapper. It's just serving a purpose for me...for the moment. :) |
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Posted 10/02/2013 11:57 am
