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ebay is full of surprises. This is one of them. I had a few ebay bucks to spend, so I was browsing APMEX's stock (maybe three weeks ago) when I came across a roll of AU (with a few MS's) Washington quarters for a decent price. I decided, what the heck, and purchased two. It took APMEX a whole week to deliver them to the Post Office (where I was required to go and pick them up myself   ). Instead of picking them up just then, I waited until the next Monday. Long story short, I just looked through the second roll today. Here's the highlights of what I found. 1935-S AU 1944-P MS (Beauty! Not worth much...) 1932-S AU!! WHAAAAT?1950-S MS Apparently the 1932-S slipped by some keen eyes! I'm now the proud owner! $200 profit on that... At least! I'll send it to PCGS on my next send. Edited by Cruisinfusion
03/31/2014 5:23 pm
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I'll post pictures when there's sunlight!
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Score!
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That 32-S ended up exactly where it should--congrats!  |
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APMEX is one of those places when the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. They were probably scrambling to find coins to complete your order and those coins were just tossed in to finish it. The person making up the order was probably a numismatic idiot. Congrats!
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Numismatic idiot.. That sounds... Dangerous at best
Edit: I have to agree looking a gift horse in the mouth.. Be like buying a 1964 proof set lot and having a accented hair kennedy or I can go on and on.. Smile say thank you leave great feedback!
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03/31/2014 12:49 pm
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Very nice score! Was it listed as unsearched rolls?  Edited by dave700x
03/31/2014 01:58 am
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Amazing find!  |
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Hopefully no one from that company reads these posts. OR someone will be out looking for a job soon.  |
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Nice. I may have to try my luck at one of these. Maybe I will get a 1916 SLQ! Great find by the way. |
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Talk about " looking a gift horse in the mouth " Just because APMEX may add a bonus to their customers every once in a while, and doesn't cherry pick and send send just junk to their customers, they are idiots and morons deserving of ridicule ? Ah ... Ok ? |
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If the owner knew they sent out a 200$ coin in "junk silver" he would not be happy. I don't care how good a customer someone is, a numismatic idiot working for 12$ an hour pulled this order and prepared it for shipment. That one coin would have paid his wages for a couple of days. Mistakes like this is what eventually drives good companies into the ground.
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Well...there is a BUNCH of variables: #1 does a single individual count the coins and insert them into rolls? #2 are the coins out of a bulk bag? #3 are they machine counted rolled and then shipped? #4 do they pay a employee to dig through bag of "junk" bullion coin silver searching key dates and if they do out of the however large number of stock on hand coins does said employee find a key date? #5 has anyone ever heard of buying a APMEX hoard of key date coins? |
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Nice find! APMEX is so large they probably loose a little in quality control every now and then. I've gotten some nice stuff from them and also gotten some orders I've had to return. Last year got a roll of circulated Barber halves, and out of 20 there was 16 different dates and mints...that was pretty cool. Hope it wasn't all ebay bucks you spent  ....that would mean you had $400+ in ebay bucks. That's sooo wrong Edited by edweather
03/31/2014 1:36 pm
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You know, I think that AMPEX knows exactly what they are doing. $200 is cheap in the world of advertising. I'm sure they knew that many collectors talk to each other. Words gets out that things like this are in, and I guarantee that they see more than a $200 boost in business.
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Posted 03/31/2014 12:47 am
