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Pillar of the Community
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. . . to list a lot of copper pennies as "variety unsorted"? I'll explain briefly here, which I would also do in the listing: I collect wheaties and whatever glaring oddities might catch my eye (e.g., a few weeks ago I found a bright purple penny that seems to have toned because of a piece of Scotch tape left on it, and in a recent roll I also found what I think might be a 1968 proof). With the exception of the 1970 small date and a mini-project where I'm trying to get a roll of 1959 (it's my mother's birth year), I don't hunt for anything between 1958 and 1982. I've started pulling copper from the rolls I search, and while I may end up selling it to a copper-hoarder, I want to leave the option open for variety-hunters working in the LMC years. Would it be ethical, or even sensical, to note this in an ebay listing? I don't know how many variety hunters are out there, how many would be interested, or even how many would believe me, given the history of "unsearched wheat cents". |
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Pillar of the Community
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Saying a group of cents has "variety searching" potential is kind of reverse psychology to buyers. They'll immediately think it has been picked through under a glass. Same with the term "unsearched", to the buyer it means searched. You could try it out, but I'm just throwing out the potential buyer's mentality.
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I roll hunt cents and I do look for errors and varities. However, I personally wouldn't pay over face for them. I can go to the bank and get better than what you are offering. Perhaps someone else would.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I wouldnt have a problem with that, but like was said above I wouldnt believe it either if I came across it. Yet those lots do consistently sell so I guess enough people do
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If I do list it as "unsearched for varieties," I would explain in the listing exactly what I DO search for (wheaties, 1970, 1959), and state that everything else is just pulled because it's copper. I don't know how much I'd be believed, but maybe if I sold a couple of lots and got good feedback (e.g. to the extent that the buyer looked at the lot and it appears truthful), it'd be a nice way to get rid of at least part of my dumps.
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Bedrock of the Community
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doesn't hurt to try. Worse case you just waste one of the free monthly listings
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I agree. Worse case, they dont sell, and you're only out the time that it took you to post them. Best case you get more than you would have for just plain old copper.
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Just list them as unsearched rolls and move along ..full disclosure and long wordy explanations turn off ebay buyers. Technically, they are unsearched and you shouldn't have any trouble sleeping with your moral and ethical compass intact. Edited by Andrew289
07/24/2012 08:16 am
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