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Pillar of the Community
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That 1910 looks like a nice strike and details & surface well preserved. Very pretty coin (sorry for callin you "pretty" Abe, but you are) DVCollector, send me your Canadian cents wish list and I'll print it out to refer to. Remembering I'm dealing with pocket change and circulating change and coins bound to have some circulation condition, but I still find some pretty good looking ones. I tend to buy a few rolls end of every month now to search through then roll and cash in what I don't keep. I only have a few dollars worth now but if I know what people are looking for I'll pull them. Something to know about cents from about when they switched from coppers in the 90's is that I notice coins often have striations, raised lines and bumps or goosebumps like effects  from die polishing I think, as well as the planchets releasing gases and bubbling the plating I think (by sounds of things I've read about coins lately) Some interesting effects. I think the zinc ones must be easily prone to that? If ever I mail anything out it will generally happen near the ends of months when I can do that. |
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United States
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all those common date wheats 40-50 are worth about 3 cents each
20-30's common dates 10 cents each in circulated condition ( used but not abused )
atleast thats what dealer pay around here.
then resell for 25 cents the common date 20-30's and 10 cents the common date 40'-50's
usually in a grab style container
ofcoarse if the coins are nice maybe a lil more
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Hi Coopertop5150 :) and thanks for that info.
I imagine that in Canada they might command a little bit more and in US or other countries that Canadian coins would also be worth a bit more as being harder to come by our "foreign to you" coins that also costs more to send? I don't know how people set prices but I imagine its an individual thing how they go about it. I personally wouldn't feel right charging more for any coin itself unless the charges were related to just the actual shipping costs.
Its nice to get comments about general going rates prices in here too for newbies before they get taken for a ride in epay or something too ;)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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DVCollector, send me your Canadian cents wish list and I'll print it out to refer to. Remembering I'm dealing with pocket change and circulating change and coins bound to have some circulation condition, but I still find some pretty good looking ones. I'd even enjoy getting some more recent Canadian cents since they don't circulate here anymore--unless I manage to slip one into change. There are a few years I'd like to do a study of varieties, which I would happily trade for wheaties. I'll send you an email with my list, and what I have in Lincolns...many from the early years. |
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United States
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nice finds for Canada. I live in the US and haven't found a Wheat cent in ... I can't remember. |
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Canada
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DVCollector, email received and replied to. And the newer dates circulate in abundance unless a rarity so not hard to scoop any of those for you too so make sure you add those to your list and I'll see what I've got, or what to watch for. Robbudo, that's amazing you don't find more Wheaties at all, but then its hard to find a lot of the 1940's Canadians and I've yet to find any from the 1930's at all!! I guess a whole lot of people hang onto the Wheaties now so not many escape getting into someones collectings. I may get luckier now since just starting to actively buy and search a few rolls from the bank every month now and I'm sure to find something as I buy the change people bring into the bank, not new or from the mint rolls ones. I'm after the older stuff and thats where I'd find any, face value too so what a deal |
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Canada
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Make that 10 Wheaties so far. Just received 3 in the mail today from other forum member/s whose names I won't mention in here without clearing that with them first ... but thank you to them for nurturing this newbie along :) So here are my 10 ... new ones added today in bold1920 1943 STEELIE! hurrah the FIRST I've ever seen in real life 1944 1946 D 1951 1955 D 1955 D in WAY MUCH better condition than any I have! 1957 1958 1958 D in WAY MUCH better condition than any I have! There is something exciting and great fun about beginning a collection starting from zero ... getting your first coin, then the next and .... then next ... and experiencing it growing.
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10/26/2010 4:43 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Dottir: I was up grading a few cent yesterday and found out one of the ones I was removing had a lamination peel on it. Thought you might like to take a look.  Didn't notice it till I check to see which one was better and this one was retired. |
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Canada
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Nice one, Coop  The photos you post are great. Sure beats scanner images that look so unatural and so hard to show a sense of the real color of coins. Cameras are better for sure. |
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United States
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Coop does great with the metallic effects on these pictures.  |
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Canada
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Yes. Sure does :) My first response when I saw the lamination was to think about my own big foldover one I posted recently and what immediately pooped into my head as a comeback to the lamination was: "Mines bigger than YOURS nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah |
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Dottir, you asked about the color of your 1946 cent. To me, it looks like the coin has been cleaned at some point in its life. That sort of soft pink that creeps in is a telltale sign of copper cleaner. It does not look recent but I think that is the explanation for its unique color compared to the other coins. While the color varies slightly from brass to bronze as the composition changes, that does not account for the color of the 1946 example. From WWII until the change to copper plated zinc in 1982, the exact composition of the cent has not been a matter of public record and even the amount of copper has, in some years, deviated from the 95% standard. The 2009 proof and uncirculated strike cents do use the same 95-3-2 composition as was used in 1909-1942.
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Canada
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Thanks for all your feedback about my 1946. I really have been wondering about the coloring of it. And its definately shades of pale strange pink. Coins can sure turn incredible colors depending on environmental things, can't they? Some seem like beautiful, or even ugly LOL very creative impressionistic paintings. Painterly. I do find them all fascinating. I'm strange, I know My 1959 is my ochre Lincoln desktop at the moment   |
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 United States
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Environmental conditions have made this coin what it is.
I'd have to call environmental damage (to it's surfaces).
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It's definately corroding. Too bad its in such bad shape considering how hard Wheaties are to come by up here in circulation, but thats what you get a lot of in circulating coins. Wear and tear. In and of themselves, they're great in any condition. I guess it depends what a person collects them for.
I can see that a lot of people probably try to collect every year and keep replacing coin slots with better shape coins as they come along, improving the quality as they go?
I wonder if a lot of people collect coins to build sets to sell "as sets" (I'm guessing many do) I think I'd like to have my own keeper sets to pass down to my kid/s, while also collecting to trade or sell. This interest seems to just naturally lead me that way.
I'm not thinking to deeply about where I might go or end up, am just running with things
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Posted 10/24/2010 12:00 am
