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Cascade, do you have any other threads that follow this adventure?
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Hey now, I remember this thread  Not really. I've kept some stuff, sold some stuff etc. Don't know what I'll do with all those pennies, might just coin star em. This windfall of sorts took me away from morgans & vams but gave me a great base of general knowledge from dealing with it. I was so green back then (1yr ago lol, I'm a quick study) I'm now fully, well mostly, back to vams & toners. |
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No, there were only a few tins of wheats. I think I still have one tin and the rest I sold to a buddy for around 3c each by weight if I remember right. The big stash is mostly memorial, both pre & post 82, I pulled a few 2003 shrink wrapped bank rolls out of that Keg though. Without using an angle grinder the only option to get the coins out of the Keg is to roll shake them out of the bung hole (how many times do you get to use the phrase bung hole! I miss Bevis & Butthead lol) Anyway, I don't have the time or enough inclination to search the memorials. It kills me thinking of how many varieties could be in there though. The WAM's & cam's, double ear 84, 95dd, 72dd, 69s, 70 sd's, etc. Hey let's go with a possible 83 bronze too, why not... I was thinking about enlisting some of the trusted big penny variety hunters here like John1 etc by way of Flat Rate Boxes and split any valuable varieties if they were interested but I never got around to asking then covered the stash with a blanket in my garage and there it's sat. Edited by Cascade
07/05/2016 08:31 am
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Thanks for sharing all of this, Cascade! May I ask how old your stepdad's dad was when he passed away? I ask because I'm wondering whether his collecting habits may have been a generational thing since his collection is very, very close in spirit to that of the collection of my father, who passed away last August at the age of 76. Like your step grandad's collection, my father had tons of partially filled albums, tons of "junk" silver (primarily worn Walking Liberty and Franklin half dollars, worn Mercury and Roosevelt dimes and worn Washington quarters), buckets full of modern State Quarters, bicentennial quarters, Lincoln Memorial Cents, etc. He also had a whole bunch of those plastic-encased "Vanishing Coins", "Coins of the Past", etc. Absolutely no focus to his collection whatsoever, just decades and decades of whatever seemed interesting or potentiall valuable sycu into boxes, cans, suitcases, buckets., etc. |
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He was in his 70s I think. Had dementia since early 2000s. Before that he was the barter swap from b&m messagebords and club gatherings type. After and up until he passed he bought Littleton primarily and his wife would but him bank rolls of pennies and nickles which he would go through and she would scoop them all back in and he would get go through them again next week and repeat. Kinda mean but hey he always thought it was new stuff
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07/05/2016 2:04 pm
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I truly do hope you end up discovering some varietal diamond in the rough.
It's just that it takes so much time to do that kind of thing when sorting out a big stash.
Plus finding someone you can really trust to help out with the grunt work can be one of the biggest challenges sometimes.
But then again, in retrospect, how much of varietal attribution is a menial task anyway? It's certainly a toughy to delegate to anyone when so many factors have to first be weighed out...
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I just stumbled upon this post, searching for something else. Nice inheritance! So did you ever start filling the book sets, or did you just leave them as is?
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Cascade, this was a great thread and very happy for all the stuff you got!
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I'd like to have a problem like that...having to sort through someone's numismatic agglomeration.
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Interesting read, indeed! Lincoln cents variety hunting is tough, in my opinion... The size makes it prohibitive for me, but it raises a few questions:
I am currently only (somewhat) into identifying morgan VAMS and the (sometimes) premiums that these types can bring... SO;
How many varieties of peace, ike, susan B etc have valuable (or really interesting looking) varieties?
Same question but repeated for all other denominations.... (Info I'm looking for will sound something like 'roosevelts have 3 interesting varieties such as xxxx, xxxx, xxxx and their respective premiums are ____ value of a regularly graded one of the same date'
Any datum of this sort will be greatly appreciated
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InThanks for bringing this awesome thread back up guys. I have filled the Morgan dansco with only 2 to go and some others to varying degrees. Hole filling really doesn't excite me though. The buckets of pennies are still in my garage. O don't know what to do with them. Maybe I'll fill small priority flat rate boxes and sell them to variety hundreds here? I wonder if anyone would be interests in that. I'd hate to just dump them in coinstars. I bet there's some gems to be found. He had dementia so he would look through them then at the end of the day my step-grandmother would just sweep them back into the bucket so he could go through them again lol. Seems mean but he thought they new every time apparently.
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