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Valued Member
Canada
269 Posts |
I just thought this might be of interest to some people here. An RFD member has just posted the very last certified roll of pennies from the RCM..... #20,000/20,000. Here is the link: 130857565469 |
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Valued Member
Canada
396 Posts |
Crazy how much people are willing to pay for a sticker. I bet it was just a random(last) roll in a pile that got picked up and applied the sticker.
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Valued Member
Canada
286 Posts |
Yes it might be a sticker but those are the last 50 pennies the mint will ever circulate. Even if the pennies were rolled in no specific order they were still last to roll of the line. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that auction hits well north of a thousand.
The true farewell to the penny roll.
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Valued Member
 Canada
269 Posts |
The seller was offered almost $600 outside of ebay (by a couple of different people/companies) before he decided to post it on ebay.... I originally thought it might sell in the $100-200, but John517 might be right... it could topple the $1K mark. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Even if the pennies were rolled in no specific order they were still last to roll of the line Extremely debatable and almost certainly not factual but it will be fun to see how high this roll goes.  |
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Valued Member
Canada
269 Posts |
I've pushed it to my limit so far
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
685 Posts |
20000/20000 is uniqe, I think it will go up to 500
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2984 Posts |
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Crazy how much people are willing to pay for a sticker. I bet it was just a random(last) roll in a pile that got picked up and applied the sticker. That is what probably happened. They just stuck a label on a random roll. It is not really the last roll of pennies. It just happened to have the number 20,000/20,000. Would you pay $1000 for a label? Not me. |
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Valued Member
Canada
192 Posts |
This is crazy bearly posted 5h and alrdy a bidding battle... World war ebay style lol this should be entertaining to watch lol |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
I heard that shipping to/from Canada has gone up, but; "Winner will pay $29.99 for shipping within USA, and $19.99 for CANADA. For other countries please contact me for shipping."  (edit: corrected my typo in "shiiping/shipping") Edited by oih82w8
02/25/2013 08:36 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
590 Posts |
Apparently the guy is a scalper. Probably paid people to go into the mint store and buy them for him. Not illegal, a little unethical. This is the kind of guy that everybody refers too as a hoarder and has no intention of buying coins for any other reason than profit. Either way he maybe got 50 to 100 rolls max. Not a huge profit for the work involved. He should be charging more for the rolls that way I can make more money when I sell me roll.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1354 Posts |
My guess is that he had a connection to get that...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
590 Posts |
 That's always the case. I know a guy who collects bills with sequential serial numbers. He pays off bank employees. He has every teller in town working for him. I would not be surprised if this person paid someone to look for that and hold it for him. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
590 Posts |
Its at $560.00 already. Could go over $1000
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Valued Member
Canada
335 Posts |
But imagine the Mint rolls the coins in reverse order so 20000 wouldbe first and 00001/20000 would be last.
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Posted 02/25/2013 12:16 am
