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Oklahoma Woman's Gift Bag Of Silver Half-Dollars May Be Worth $100k+

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Nick, I went to Rick Tomaska's web site and they were not bragging about it. Your observation is spot-on.
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Minimum opening bid was $69K, the bag sold for $75K, a little short of the presale estimate.
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Works out to $37.50 each. 1963 FBLs go for over $1K, but ebay sold listings show some uncirculated 1963-D Franklins going for as little as $6
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I'm wondering if Rick Tomaska bought the bag himself, and if we'll soon be seeing specially slabbed "Oklahoma Hoard" 63-D Franklins on his show.
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With his personal NGC label
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I'm wondering if Rick Tomaska bought the bag himself, and if we'll soon be seeing specially slabbed "Oklahoma Hoard" 63-D Franklins on his show.

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Took me a while to dig through the archives to find this thread.

I was flipping channels yesterday and saw Rick's show was selling Walking Libertys that were "from a hoard". I thought they were from the hoard in this thread but no, they were from a "hoard" in Delaware. Apparently they bought 150,000 of them, at least that's what they said. They were selling them in bags of 25, 50 or 100. 25 was $500 something, 50 count was $995 and 100 count was $1979. They claimed they were unsearched.
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They claimed they were unsearched


They can claim whatever they want to, but reality will tell you something else!

During the past 77 years those coins have been searched numerous times by somebody, somewhere.
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Based on census distribution most will grade 64, with equal proportions of 63 and 65. And price guide values of $26-$38.

Grading (bulk) costs $14/ea. Melt is ~$10.50 for a total of $24.50 per coin.

You are into it at $49k w/o any premium over melt. There's no money here. You need to pull several MS-66 or MS-66+ to be worthwhile.
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Even if one were to advertise this as truly "unsearched/original/sewn at the mint", I would be skeptical ... maybe I've just been "boiled like a frog" and have lost the ability to take things at face value. So much manipulation out there ...
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