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I have the opportunity to look through about $800 in dollar coins in rolls that been sitting in a bank vault for a unknown period of time. On my first four rolls I found early president is dollars, SBA, and SWD. Each dollar design was in its own roll and each roll was its own brand/design. What should I keep and be looking for? I been thinking about keeping all the flawless ones I happened to find or any interesting toned ones. I am not good at grading at the AU to MS range, I just don't understand it yet. My criteria for keeping extra ones is 100% mint luster with no bag marks or scratches or wear. I went through 50 decent to great 2000 p dollars and found only one that met that criteria under a 15x loupe. I figured its atleast MS-65. The only toned one I kept had areas of subtle blue toning along the edges of the reverse with no wear and most of its luster Right now I want to find the nicest examples of every year and mint mark I can. I got a Presidential dollar album that I just started and plan on collecting the others in 2x2's. |
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BTW I totally hate that they placed the date and mint mark on the edge of the newer dollars. I can live with the date since the design changes but the mint is unforgivable. Seems like it's the first place that wears. Plus it's invisible in most 2x2 ans albums.
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speaking of the edge, that is one of the features for varieties. Rightside-up, upside-down, or missing. Depending on the condition, there is a premium on coins where the "3rd side" is blank. I have seen a Washington Dollar "set" for sale, with one of each. There are some that have been struck twice, so the 3rd side has text rightside-up and upside-down.
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1979 P SBA wide rim. there are pics you can find, but you will know when you see one because under reading glasses it almost looks like the rim touches the date. 21st and higher presidents. These are sold only to collectors and not ones that should be in circulation by normal means, but some people get rolls or bags, choose one to keep and discard the rest back into the system non-Eagle backed SACs. Same as 21st and so presidents. S mintnmark |
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With the non eagle back SAC, are they all NCLT or only the ones after 2012?
I found 5 2011 ones in the $100 that I picked up today. She was nice and tried to get me the newest looking rolls from the vault.
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12/16/2014 8:29 pm
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Oh yeah... stupid ads in the papers from Litleton.. The first 3 years are NOT NIFC for the "Native American". But you will likely not find great bunches of them either. 4 boxes of dollars and I have only been able to make a roll of the Hiwatha's belt. short a few on the 3 sisters/planting corn, and pipe.
2012 and up are the NIFC ones. 2011 seems some did circulate.
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I been having a lot of fun sorting through them. More than I have with any other coin I searched for rolls since I'm collecting every modern dollar. I've been lucky found almost $100 of Ike's too that came out of a safety deposit box for face. I was able to get a full business strike IKE collection from it. The only ones I get tired of are the 2000 p dollars.
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Yeah there are a lot of them. You know you could probably ask a bank to get a box of dollars and it will be the small ones and $1000 worth. You will find SBAs, SACs, pre$, and many even some pesos or who knows what.
I find the finds in them are less than stellar, but when it comes to spending (I have no coin counter or dump bank per say), they are pretty easy. Only the occasional, "is this real?" because they think it is real GOLD. [insert facepalm picture here]
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Also be on the lookout for 2000P with the reverse of 1999. The so-called Cheerios dollar. They must be out there.
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Posted 12/16/2014 03:56 am
