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Will be making the trek east tomorrow morning. On the agenda is Mercs and Buffs.
...and Canadian.
....and silver bullion/rounds.
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Spoke with my dealer 20 minutes after posting this. He said, "there is a NICE collection coming in tomorrow". Oh my....
Will definitely take photos to share.
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Small update. The "Nice collection coming in", did not come to fruition. Maybe another day. :) But, did thumble through a multiple date/mintmark roll set of Mercury dimes and barely scratched the surface on a date/mintmark roll set of Buffalo nickels. Got back home very late (1 am) and taught another class today. 9 pm tonight...will post pictures tomorrow night (Sunday). |
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Some Mercury dimes in a box of dimes in plastic rolls. Rolls were all marked with date/mm, but you never knew what treasures may be in the rolls. Mixed in with these were some VG to XF.    |
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Quote:But, did thumble through a multiple date/mintmark roll set of Mercury dimes and barely scratched the surface on a date/mintmark roll set of Buffalo nickels. When it comes to coins you never want to scratch the surface! Sorry, the Punman strikes again. |
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No, only 2/3 of a pun -- PU!
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Nice mercs! Can you provide a list of dates.
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Multiple rolls of 42/d/s, 43/d/s, 44/d/s, & 45/d/s. A couple 40/d/s, 41/d/s. Nice AU/BU 1916, AU 23 S, AU 27 S - these are just the ones that I remember. I looked at close the 5000 Mercury dimes. Some of the rolls were full of true UNC/BU coins. The other rolls had a little bit of everything in them. Just never knew what was going to pop out. |
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When blessed with such a find there is an exercise which I recommend.
1) Line up all of the coins obverse side up.
2) Pick out two or three which REALLY catch your eye.
3) Then pick out two or three coins which are not quite up to the rest.
4) Repeat until the original line-up is exhausted.
You now have two groups.
Now:
1) Turn up the reverse sides of each group.
2) Repeat steps two and three WITHIN EACH GROUP.
You now have four groups of nice and not-so-nice with both sides examined.
Turn up the obverses and observe the results.
Without thinking about 'grade' you now have isolated the best and the worst
by eye appeal and personal taste alone. You can now study the grade having prioritized the coins.
I have found this exercise helpful to me.
This same exercise can be applied to any coins sold by the roll.
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matthewvincent - your analogy above....is EXACTLY what I do. When I selected the Unc quarters 3 weeks ago, I had, usually, multiples to choose from. I grabbed the best in the lot. With the Washington quarters, the obverse has the flatter surfaces and clear fields, so, on the eye appeal and grade choice, I seperated by obverse first, then reverse. Lastly, I judged by strike. Mercury dimes are tough as well. Many MS coins, look AU in strike, but are truly Unc. Strike, strike, and strike. Small coin, not much else matters. Full bands on the reverse make it easy. :) |
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