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I bet that every one of us has a story about something stupid we did, such as a bad purchase or sale, when we were new collectors. So let's share some of our stories that we can now look back on an laugh. My story is of me when I was 12. I bought 2 AG Standing Liberty quarters that were horribly cleaned to a bright white color. I bought them for $1 a piece since I actually thought that since they were that shiny that they must be BU (haha). So I was of course soon disappointed. But on the lighter side, I sold them when silver was much higher and got nearly $3 a piece for them. |
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Canada
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This is a story about something stupid I did, not bought.
I have a little silver box that I keep my handfuls of change in until I can sort through them for keepers. A couple years ago I threw in a whole load of dimes to sort through when I could. I would sort a few at a time whenever the mood struck me. I did not have 2x2's so I would put anything interesting into little tiny baggies. I do know at one point I had a canadian 10 cents, from 1969 that had a different 9 than normal. At some point I pulled everything out that I didnt think was worth keeping, rolled them up and cashed them in. THEN I bought a new coin reference book and there was my little weird dime.........valued at about $10,000 in g4 condition. Sadly it was rolled and gone.
Every once in a while I still check through my house and my couch and my coin bins and change jars and under furniture just hoping, but I know it was rolled and cashed. SO STUPID!
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United States
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When I was a kid, I had emptied out whitman folders, opened mint & proof sets for ice cream. When you're a kid, 40 Buffalo nickels = $2 and a proof set = 91 cents worth of ice cream. |
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United States
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When I was in highschool, I was given a roll of silver halves (along with a roll of silver quarters) as a gift. But I needed some extra cash at one point, so I went to the local coin store to sell the roll...and not really knowing anything about coins at the time, I was happy to walk away with $35...now I'm kinda kicking myself, cuz I remember the roll was a handpicked roll of AU/BU halves (half of the roll were Franklins and the other half were 90% Kennedy)...*sigh*....atleast I still have the roll of AU/BU silver quarters  |
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 United States
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Did you guys know that Coke can make a silver quarter Really Shiny?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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GraceOutcast- Hmm really? Is this also true for diet coke, coke zero/ coke lite? Does this have to do with one of your own stories?
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United States
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Well, coke (even diet) is extremely acid, so I don't doubt it!
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United States
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cheungsta- hmm true. I now wonder if GraceOutcast was implying that my bad Standing quarters were for a long time sitting in coke. haha |
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United States
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Hmmmm. I once put whipped cream on some silver Roosevelts and they got big and fat. Then I went and did it to the rest of them and I am now independantly wealthy!!
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United States
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My grandfather had a box of old coins and he let me go through and select one of each type. One that I got was an 1864-L IHC . Needless to say that as a kid, I could not wait to get to a dealer and sell it to buy some junk coins. Oh how I have regretted that decision over the years. I finally last year bought an 1864-L cent, but somehow it is just not the same. |
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Did you guys know that Coke can make a silver quarter Really Shiny? And toothpaste and a toothbrush can do the same for silver dimes.  |
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United States
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Way, way back when I was a kid my Dad knew I collected coins so every time he received a Silver Dollar he would give it to me thinking I saved them all. Back then a Silver Dollar was used as much as paper ones. Same with all Silver coins. Being a kid I had no idea of dates, mint marks or grades of coins but I collected many as a hobby but not those big dollar coins. So with a place called Riverview, an amusement park, not far away, I used them all the time there. Great place to pick up girls and if you had a few dollars, you could always pick up some so that is where all the Silver dollars went. Probably thousands over the years. Sure wonder if there was any really valuable ones there.
Used to be a game where you flipped coins on a concrete sidewalk to see who could get the closest to the second dividing lines. We probably dented millions of pennies over the years doing that. Wonder if there was any 09S VDB's in those coins back then. Possibly but they were only coins, nothing big, just coins.
AHHH the good old days.
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United States
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When I was little, I went to the "Squirt" machine downtown (McFall..don't blink), took the quarter out of my pocket and looked at it, "hmm, never seen a quarter like this" clink... I sure wish I'd have gone without that soda. I know now that the quarter was a doubled die, obvious enough for a naive 6 year old, who cared nothing about coins but to spend them, to see it.
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08/05/2008 11:45 am
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United States
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I had been keeping wheat pennies for years must have had 30 rolls of these. One day I said I am going to take all those other penny rolls to the bank and cash them in and get new rolls.
So I did jut that, then some time later thought I am going to start going through some of those wheat pennies and then realized I took the wrong rolls to the bank.
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When I was a kid, I had emptied out whitman folders, opened mint & proof sets for ice cream.  ... ..... .....   Ummmm.......I had a couple dumb things......I traded crisp conditioned Silver Certificates for Comic books. I traded a whole shoebox full of football and baseball cards (all from the 70's !)to friends for who knows what. And a Cousin and I used "old Classic coins" of all denominations to go to this "old era" small town drug store where they had the old fashioned soda machines....we used to like the Cherry 400's mmmmmmm.... These coins were his dad and moms and his dad would give him small batches, but didn't know what "we" were doing with them !... ......I feel terrible now !...  ..  But those Cherry 400's and Malts and Shakes were sooooooo good !.. ....We were probably 5 to 8 years old......don't know how many Silver Dollars and Buffalo nickels, etc. etc. etc. we could have went through over those years..... |
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Brucec- heh I think we have all done stuff like that. But at least you made some other roll searcher's day.
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Posted 08/04/2008 9:21 pm
