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Pillar of the Community
United States
672 Posts |
I just thought I would share this oddity I found today.. out of 1K..I found
1968-S X 7
1969-S X 12
1970-S X 2
1971-S X 4
1976-S (Silver) X 2
1977-S X 2
1979-S X 2
1981-S X 5
1982-S X 1
1983-S X 2
1984-S X 3
1985-S X 7
This had to be somones collection dump...that is my only explination, I also found 20 40% and 3 90% in the box.. one a 59D
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1358 Posts |
Probably... all for your benefit though! Nice finds!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2120 Posts |
or someone raided grandpas collection.
Cool find for you though! Grats!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
 I am lucky to get 1 proof out of about every 2500 I search. |
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Moderator
 United States
187950 Posts |
Very nice. In what condition are they in? Does it look like a recent dump? |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1682 Posts |
Nice going. Proofs are always nice but silver proofs are even better.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4113 Posts |
Congrats on the Proofs and 40%er's!
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Valued Member
United States
469 Posts |
Man, that's crazy. I sure wish that I could come across a great find in my roll searches!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1388 Posts |
that's almost a scary good find!!... |
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Valued Member
United States
70 Posts |
Nice finds! Awesome!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2541 Posts |
congrats, I've only found 4 proofs in about $20k, but one was a silver.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
672 Posts |
To answer the question the proofs did appear to be recently dumped, only hand fingerprints, and probally bg marks from being tumbled arroung in the rolling machine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
672 Posts |
Question: I had alot of 67' kennedys that appeared to be proofs but had no mm... were these proofs not issued with a mm, or were they just polished 67's?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
Sounds like the same person also dumped the 67's out of his Special Mint Sets, too! Great Find!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
564 Posts |
I am shocked how stupid people are. Why would you cut open a proof set to bring the coins to the bank. If I knew nothing about coins I would think I would know better than to cut something out of a package. I would like to think I would try to sell it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'll throw out another possibility. Some of this stuff we are finding is actually "stolen". This is fact. I have had some bank tellers and a coin dealer tell me this. Unfortunately, unless caught in the act no one can do anything about it.
In a twisted way it's nice that it ends up with another collector.
Good find Americana and congrats. There are 2 types of 81-S and you should check it out. Hopefully someone could help you out on the diagnosis (type II is more valuable). Check the others as well.
Peace.
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Posted 07/08/2010 1:52 pm
