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Wrestling: Thank-you and it is nice to hear someone else in the same boat has hope.
Owassokie: I agree. Honestly I am starting to worry though about having enough silver to require hidding it and keeping it a secret. I think we have probably all heard about break-ins to steal stashed coin collections.
With that, I plan to continue as prior until I am STINKING rich!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pungod, I decided long ago that digging a hole, somewhere safe, is the only the way to go. There are scenario's, in every other method of storage, that make me cringe...ie...home, vault, bank, offsite storage, ETFs,mutual funds, etc... Under earth has a couple draw backs too but is safest and closest to ideal for me. The key is to tell enough family where it is but not too many :)
Btw, I'm in my mid-thirties so my 30 year investment period has been horrid so far. I'm going to need an exceptional next 15 to 20 years for my investments to materialize in to to the nest egg that all those retirement calculators told me I'd have by my mid-fifties. The time part of the time-value of money is already starting to go in the wrong direction for me. I figure about the time I've adjusted my investments to reflect my lack of 'risk tolerance', the market will go crazy in a good way. That's just my luck.
And yes, I am generally a pessimistic person :)
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Weighing them is a fast way to weed out the 90%ers. Just helps give me a sense of what I am in store for when time allows me to dig into the boxes. The day I pick them up is usually too busy to start searching rolls, but I can weigh four boxes worth in ten minutes.
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04/04/2012 2:23 pm
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unholyroller, I think it would be fun to weigh them because it adds to the anticipation of what's to come. Have you ever weighed one and it was so heavy that you didn't know how many 90%ers were in there? I bet its a pretty cool feeling to weigh a roll and then wonder if if its just a common 1964 Kennedy or maybe a nice Walker. I can tell you this...there's no way I could wait till the next day to open one if I knew it had a 90%er. Never know when you might open it up and for a 38D Walker or some kind of key half or commemorative.
Owassokie
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Got myself a 1967 Kennedy in loose halves.  |
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United States
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Ohhhhhhh...I don't wait to open a 90%er....I open them right away! I have yet to find a roll with more than one 90% in it. Best so far was a roll with one 90%, two 40%, one proof, and an 87D all in the same roll
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Got myself a 1967 Kennedy in loose halves. Very nice!  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Stopped by a regular haunt of mine and the very nice teller handed me 6 halfs of which the one on the end was a 1967 (does that count as an "ender"?). The funny part is she asked: "Why do you come in and buy these?" as she handed me a coin worth $4.50 that I payed 50 cents for.
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unholyroller what was the year on that Walker? Cool find.
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Boxes 24 and 25 today, were skunks for silver, did get another 1987 myself also,thats 4 in 25 boxes. Current skunk silver streak for boxes is 11. Did get that 67 this week in loose rolls. Got one more box coming tommorrow
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Pillar of the Community
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Rolls By Weight
My last roll containing a 90% 1964 weighed 226.4 grams.
Most all my 40% coins were in the 225.6 grams or above range.
Now, do not make the mistake of bypassing a roll if it does weigh less than 225.6. I have read
that anything above 225.4 grams is prime for a possible 40% coin, and I have also read of some being found
in rolls weighing only 225.0 grams.
Remember that clad proofs, double dies, and other error coins will have no difference in weight. Also, it has been my experience that rolls with larger amounts of bicentennials tend to weigh more.
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Oh, by the way, I am hoping to pick up my next three Brinks boxes today.
Even with silver crashing, due to manipulation, it is still nice to find silver coins and errors as well.
I have yet to find my first double die, but as I expand my known database I might change that.
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Valued Member
United States
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I have a grading question:
What is the difference in grade of a coin from an uncirculated set you can buy from the Mint and what would come in a roll from the mint that has not yet been circulated?
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