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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My girlfriend asked me today, when I told her I ordered a 2013P and D cent set on ebay for $1.50, "Why would you spend $1.50 for .02?" Annoyed by the ridiculous question, I shot back, "So I wouldn't have to spend it on you." I think she's upset with me now.
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Valued Member
United States
433 Posts |
Skyshark124 thats kinda funny but prob not the best idea to say to your girlfriend haha but I always drag my girlfriend into searching with me try it out sometime just gotta give clear instructions
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Valued Member
United States
449 Posts |
haha love it skyshark! my wife thinks its all silly too.. its just best to keep them out of it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1620 Posts |
Mine thinks its silly also but my kids love it and I get to have my own cloffice. Pronounced claw fis lol its my closet office. I turned my walk in closet into my office
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Valued Member
United States
102 Posts |
Skyshark, wait til you have to explain spending $140.00 on one. My wife gave in and now I have a buddy to go to coin shows with and even enjoys digging through change. Should of heard her tonight when she found a 2009!
Edited by Luvpennys 03/12/2013 02:46 am
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Valued Member
United States
102 Posts |
After you asked what the back looks like, I dug it out and looked close. There was something on the back like gum so I soaked it in hot water then could tell there is flattening of the " United States o" and it's NOT a WAM   Also " ONF CENT" below the memorial
Edited by Luvpennys 03/12/2013 3:09 pm
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New Member
United States
33 Posts |
Went to my Wells Fargo bank today to order a few boxes of pennies. They say I can only get 2 boxes a week. Is that normal for the rest of you?
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Valued Member
United States
449 Posts |
they make up rules as they go, my bank has like 5 locations within 30 miles of me. I used to get boxes from the same bank but all of a sudden they wont give me a box because they said it costs money to order them, but all the other ones dont care and will give them to me. so each bank can pretty much decide what they want to do....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1109 Posts |
Well my girlfriend called me today so I guess I'm not on the do-not-call list yet. She went with me to Vegas last year and I went to a coin show there. When I pulled out $200.00 to buy a 1914-D, she walked out. She said she couldn't believe I would "waste" my money like that. At least now she understands more about coin collecting and value. I had to relate it to one of her favorite hobbies: antique collecting. Now she gets it. She even checks her change now. :)
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
What one of my banks told me, they have so much room on the trucks, say room for 20 boxes if there is a biz that needs money, or they have a lot of ppl ordering they may only be able to order so much before there is a over charge. Take what you can get then bump it up. I get 20+ boxes a week from wells fargo split between 2 days. I have another bank that orders me over 50 boxes a week split between 2 days. Right now I go through about 30k a week, my dump bank loves me. Hahaha
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2624 Posts |
yvairguy:I take it you are not a variety collector.
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
DrDon, well yes and no, I am pulling copper and silver, but I do check "BU" coins or anything that catches my eye, just pulled a 1905 IHC that my copper sorter would have missed because I watch when I open, if I go to roll opener(which I have built) I will probably miss some of the stuff I cherry pick now. before when I was trying to check everything, before I started running the volume, every time I would find a good coin it was just wrecked so it really wasn't worth the time I spent looking for it. Right now I am focusing on getting the cleanest coins I can per year, when I fill a tube I will check them all for errors and decide what I will do with the rest from there. I still catch counter stamped coins and stuff..... Now if I could come up with some OCR software I would take it to a whole new level, I will play with that this summer if I am not in school, I actually I hope I am in school which means it will be 2 years before I can work on that and the one OCR that I know of will have probably been put in production by then and a lot of this hobby will shrink up, but as long as people still have coins to dump I don't think it will ever go away completely.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2624 Posts |
OCR ? Pardon my lack of understanding but What's this?
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
Optical Character Recognition software, there is software that has been developed that can read the coin, date, mint mark, etc.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Quote: Skyshark, wait til you have to explain spending $140.00 on one. ....or $1500+. Somethings are best left quiet. 
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