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Valued Member
United States
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What up guys I had some questions..
Currently I'm crh through half dollars and I've come across quite a bit of uncirculated Kennedy's. Do you guys keep them or roll them back up and turn them in?
I bought 2 ($500) boxes of half dollars and found about 15 rolls of uncirculated halves. The dates vary from 1990's to 2001. Is it worth it to save them, sell them to make a little bit of profit to go towards more coins or just turn them back in? Was just wondering about your input. Thanks in advance and sorry if this has already been brought up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Turn em in as whatever profit you would likely make would be eaten up by ebay or by your time and effort selling and meeting someone from craigslist. Unless they are truly BU I wouldn't. you are probably better off dumping and buying more halves to find silver or something interesting |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You could go through them and pull the best out of each.
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Rest in Peace
United States
7075 Posts |
 Bassmaster. I you have a bunch without bag marks or any other dings, keep them until it becomes inconvenient. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Personally, I don't keep 'em, even the proof coins. We used to throw the 40%'ers back.
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Valued Member
United States
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I have several sets of Kennedys, and look to upgrade those sets when I find nice Kennedys in circulation. Otherwise, I send them back.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1053 Posts |
If you like them, keep them!
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Valued Member
United States
256 Posts |
I think that's a pretty good rule... if you like 'em, keep 'em. But you do have to put some back so you can be restocking your cash to go get more boxes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Take my advice, if you keep every BU half dollar, you will bankrupt yourself. When I did my boxes (2008-2010), someone made a mega-dump of BU 1995-P's... we're talking about 15% of all of the coins in each box over the span of three years and four different branches.
Casinos used to order these by the tens of thousands for slot machines. Those machines became unpopular long before the casinos were able to use up all of their stock, so they dumped their stock of largely BU coins back on the Fed.
There is no shortage of BU halves.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
716 Posts |
I once came across 16 boxes of brand new 1996s.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would throw them back unless you are doing a JFK set and need the date. I do not keep anything in halves except silver, proofs any 1987s and any NIFCs.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I pick the best of the best for my collections and will use the ones I find to upgrade. When I get to a point I find one as good as my best, but can see not improvement of on over the other, I will keep the new one in a coin tube. This way I only save the best of the best and don;t have rolls of each date, but maybe 2 or 3 form a date.
If I find more of this quality (not often), and when compared to the saved ones,do not show they are better, back they go for someone else to find.
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Posted 09/06/2013 5:22 pm
