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I got my normal 4 boxes today and noticed something I have never seen before. After opening the box, I noticed that all the coins looked BU. After opening the first three rolls, every coin was a BU 1993D. I have noticed several BU 1993D's while searching lately. At least 20 per box, but I've never run into anything like this before.  [/URL]  [/URL] Edited by danmc00
05/23/2013 10:30 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Maybe it was just a person dumping their NIFC half dollar collection since they weren't happy with how the value changed. I find this sort of the thing with newly minted pennies and dimes, even in "random" bank rolls, mixed in with older circulated coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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All the time. Once I got 16 boxes of 1996P, another kind of skunks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pepe LePew strikes again!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To bad you opened the box, if it was solid 1993 p you could have likely sold it online for a significant premium. I bet you could still make some money selling the unopened BU 1993 rolls you have left though
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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1989D BU seem to be the ones around here that turn up in bulk every couple of months.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Every once in awhile I get a LOT of 96Ps and or 98Ps in boxes. one time I believe it was close to half a box of the 96s. @jackjeckel - check those 89Ds for a repunched MM. I find very few 89Ds per the 4 boxes I do each week. Photo from Ken Potter:  How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Pillar of the Community
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once found a box filled with those annoying plated gold halves - now that was a bad day
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once found a box filled with those annoying plated gold halves - now that was a bad day Can't you sell them over face value? |
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Doubtful. They are only worth face value.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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The gold plated ones sell for several times face.
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Pillar of the Community
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I hit a streak where every box from 3 banks was about 20-30% BU 1995-D's. Best explanation I can come up with is casinos. Apparently, after the half dollar fell out of favor with the general public in the 70s, the majority of the demand came from casinos, who used them for slot machines. The casinos stopped using them gradually during the mid to late 90s, and the mint consequently stopped producing halves for circulation in 2001. These BU halves probably sat in casino vaults until the managers retired the old machines. There is also the possibility that the coins simply sat in the Fed vaults until the big grab for silver halves in the late 2000s.
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The gold plated ones sell for several times face. I would not pay more than face value for them. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 However, if I had enough of them, it might be worth melting off all the gold and collecting it. I could take them to work, drop them into a crucible and cook the crap out of them until the gold falls off.  |
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I wouldn't pay more than face for them either. I completely agree. But if someone else will....
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