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Valued Member
United States
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I recently started CRH and finally got a Red Book, I was just hunting War Nickels and '09 but in the Red Book they list a lot of random dates with high mintage for over $1 like '82D, '82P, 83D and '83P etc... I have been through about 10 boxes already and have been passing them up, am I missing something? Why are those dates with a high mintage worth that? Any help would be appreciated before I get 10 more boxes in and kick myself for passing up a lot of decent nickels. |
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Valued Member
 United States
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So I guess that was a stupid question since nobody answered
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Moderator
 United States
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Not a stupid question, just no one that has given an answer. The price guide in the Red Book, or anywhere for that matter, are guides only. It seems most are a bit high. Many people get prices from current sales on ebay or take current retail prices as a guided. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Hey Fuzzy, I see you are collecting birth year coins, I checked my box from overseas and I have a 1 and 5 pfennig from Germany both '68 and a 10 Confoederatio Helvetica from I have no clue?
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United States
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If your 5 Pfennig is from Germany B.R.D. (West or Federal), when you have enough posts to sell we should talk.  Helvetica is Switzerland, we can discuss that one later as well.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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What do you mean more posts?
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Moderator
United States
14463 Posts |
yes, here are the Buy/Sell/Trade/Want List Rules. We don't want members to join only for selling or buying. We hope they become part of the community. |
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Valued Member
United States
50 Posts |
I don't want to sell them, they were in a cigar box I have all my money from deployments in, I'll give them to you to help you with your collection, they are just collecting dust and didn't even really think about all of them until I saw you were collecting from around the world, they are yours if you want them, I'm deff not doing anything with them.
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United States
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I appreciate the offer, but I need to follow the rules I help enforce. Hang on to them and we will talk later.
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm not on here to sell anything, I am pretty new at this so I have a lot of questions. I'm just roll searching to pass the time and keeping what I have, but those foreign coins I'm never going to do anything with.
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United States
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I was the same way. I only had a few stray world coins until one fateful day I got the first coin for my Birth Year Set. Here it is 3 years later, and my BYS is 233 coins from 84 different countries.
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Valued Member
United States
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Well thanks, I've only been doing this a few months and every time I googled a question it always brought me to this sight so I finally joined. Everyone is pretty cool on here and helpful so thanks for that.
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United States
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The prices in RB are high. A more accurate price can be found here http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtmlAs for the 82's and 83's I think those were NIFC so they are worth a bit more then the average date. John1  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Wow, those prices are a lot lower than the Red Book, but thanks for the website I book marked it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In 1982 and 1983 the US Mint did not issue mint sets. Therefore it is more difficult to find coins from those years in mint state. The harder it is to find, the higher the price.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Also the prices in the RedBook are for MS-63 and 65 coins. After over 30 years any 82 or 83 nickels you encounter in circulation are VERY unlikely to grade MS anything. And once you get out of the MS grades the 82 and 83 nickels are just common coins worth little more than face value. They are a "condition rarity" In contrast look at the 2009 nickels. They have a small fraction of the mintage of the 82 or 83 but their low mintage was known even before the coins were released and the 2009's were heavily hoarded. The 09's seldom show up in circulation but are readily available in MS from dealers and collectors so their value in MS is little more than the other much more common dates around it. |
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Posted 08/08/2014 03:44 am
