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Valued Member
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Additional information (questions from the above posts)
The dealer I showed them to said I should definitly keep them in the roll.
"1950-D" is not only written on the roll, but it is also printed (or stamped on the roll.
Because they are in a "shotgun" roll once they come out they can not go back in. Therefore, I can't look at them without "spoiling" the roll, but this also means that somebody could not have removed the coins and replaced them with less valuable ones.
According to the FEDEX website the close up lens set I ordered will be here tomorrow so I will upload the pictures as soon as I take them.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The dealer I showed them to said I should definitly keep them in the roll.
That dealer is doing you a great disservice by saying that to you. quote:
Because they are in a "shotgun" roll once they come out they can not go back in... this also means that somebody could not have removed the coins and replaced them with less valuable ones.
You are mistaken about this. Shotgun rolls can be recrimped and the tool to do it can easily be purchased from ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/Shotgun-Coin-Wr...US_W0QQitemZ a href= https://www.coincommunity.com/go/link.asp?target=https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/130154046591 target= _blank rel= nofollow 130154046591 /a QQihZ003QQcategoryZ531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem. It does not matter that the wrapper looks old. Reread Conder's post- these things were going crazy ~10 years after they were minted. |
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Do you think I should have the entire roll graded? Do any of the grading services offer an option where they look over the whole roll and only card those MS63 (or whatever grade you choose) or higher? If so, anybody have a direct link?
I'm going to the Long Beach Coin Show next week. Do the major grading services set up and grade coins there?
What are the reasons for taking them out of the roll (besides confirming that they are indeed all 1950-Ds? Is it because it is significantly more profitable to sell them individually?
Thanks again for any advice.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the pictures. If I were you, I'd hold on to the roll for a while. If not, I would open them up and sell them individually, since you could always have a MS67 FS. Of an error or something. Either way, I don't think your going to lose any money. Obviously, selling the whole roll would be the quickest, because you only have one transaction. But once you open it you can pick out the best and sell the rest as an almost complete roll, or you can buy some additional 1950-d's to make up for the missing ones and sell it as a roll. Yes, it will be opened, but you'll get buyers.
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Pillar of the Community
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Your photos are fantastic! Nice job and grats again.
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Bedrock of the Community
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With patience shotgun rolls CAN be opened, examined, and repacked. And having something written or stamped on the outside of the roll does not impress me at all. I can write anything I want on a roll, and I can have a rubber stamp made that says anything I want. I could get any old looking nickel roll I could find, say one with two tails and a D mint coin at each end, write 1950-D on it, then put it up on ebay with a throwaway account and I bet I could sell it for three to four hundred dollars easy. Take the money and run. If I want a bigger payout I could carefully open one end and replace the end coin with a 1950 "P", reclose it and get maybe $600. |
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Valued Member
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 nice! If you ever open the roll up, I would like to buy one from you also....thanks! Vince |
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Pillar of the Community
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WOW nice find! Amazing the seller didn't know what they had with a marked roll of 50-D nickels and let it go for $100...I think the roll marked 50-D would have been the first thing I would have looked at and torn into when I opened my package rather than sitting it aside!
Congrats on your great deal!
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm taking the roll to the Long Beach Coin Show on Thursday to see if I get a significantly better offer on the $400 which has already been waved in front of my face. If I don't do much better I am seriously contemplating busting it open this weekend, kinda like playing the lottery, and see just how good the coins inside are. Opened rolls on ebay go for at least $400 so I couldn't do any worse by seeing what's inside! If I do that I will post pictures of the lot this weekend. To address your comment, I didn't know they were 1950-Ds as I had not even bothered to look at it or any of the other rolls. |
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Valued Member
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I hate to revive a dead thread, but... So I finally opened the roll - the doubting Thomases on the board got me thinking it might be a fake roll - and I am happy to report that it is, indeed, a solid mint roll of beautiful BU 1950-D nickels! I have not uploaded the pictures to see if there are any "6 full steps" but they are a gorgeous bunch of coins. I still can't believe they came with a bunch of junk nickels! I am going to put them on ebay as a roll (now tube) of BU coins, but I am going to include the original paper roll just in case somebody wants it. Wish me luck! |
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Pillar of the Community
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I've been following this thread and waiting for updates. WOW! AWESOME! CONGRATULATIONS!!   Please post your ebay auction on the CCF auction forum for members here! Congrats again!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Congrats!! I wish you the best of luck.
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Pillar of the Community
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Congrads! Keep us updated with the sale.
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