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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'd say yes, since that's how Off Center Strikes are found in the first place.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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BK , I just wanted to add that your guess that some errors come from the people that would run the machines that sort and roll the bags is correct.
Years ago a coin shop that I frequented had bought a collection from the family of a man that had run one of these machines. There was a bag full of off center , nicely cupped die caps , and clips.
All of it was moving along to another dealer so I couldn't purchase anything. My favorite thing there was a cent that had the remnants of a die cap struck around and fused to the new cent.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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But not always a guarantee.
The good thing about mint bags is that if you find a major variety in them, they are a great deal.
The bad thing about mint bags is that if you don't find a find a major variety in them that sucks. Sure you can search the whole bag, but they are usually the examples of the machines running at that time. So basically they will be the same examples of the dies you've probably discovered so far in the bag. But as for errors, they could contain some one of a kind errors. If the bag is not sealed, they are probably been picked through already.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have seen some mint sewn bags at coin shows, but never thought about picking one up to look for errors. I would think that the possibilities of finding a major error like that would be very difficult though. I will have to consider.
-CH27
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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For me it would depend in the year. Some years are real duds. You may pay several times the value you could get back if the coins were not nice. I bought a could of bags years ago and would never buy them again. Thus my comments above.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's impossible to find an original mint-sewn, around here anyway. Brinks or another vendor
would be the only folks who'd get them, and your not going to get anything from them. That's how they
make their $$, supplying biz with rolled coin. No banks around here have a rolling machine, only
counters.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would buy a bag again, though just for the fun of it.
My avatar came out of a mint sewn bag and from a few 1959 Philly bags I found hundreds of Fs-104's.
Doubtful I would get that lucky again but it was fun.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I bought a OBW roll of 1945-D cents and found several examples of a new RPM:  What what unique about the roll was that there were only 4 die pairs in the roll. So only 4 machines were running that day when that bag was wrapped that made up my roll. http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/...ie_state=mdsEdited by coop
07/18/2019 3:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just for your info some smaller banks still use canvas bags for most of their coins, the bags should have a tag or label with the date it was counted at the very least. If you can't see the tag I wouldn't by the bag.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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If your time is worth $10 an hour you can buy better error coins with that than you would searching 99.9 percent of most bags.
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Moderator
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That is a really good point @mk. I used to be able to make close to minimum wage with my CRHing finds, but those days are behind me.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Moxking, that's why I said I would do it for the fun of it. What was the tag line of that commercial years ago ... priceless
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Fun is absolutely what we should all be here for. But I'm sure if you nabbed a couple hours a week at the quadrillion businesses dying for help you could easily buy nice errors with that small income.
I've done my fair share of bag and roll hunts but today's mint technology has greatly reduced nice errors.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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mox - Well said on all points.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's a lot easier to hunt for errors on ebay!  |
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