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Valued Member
United States
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over paid, but if it makes you happy. I thought you found them from roll searching.
at least you got coins from the teens and 20s and 30s
Glad they weren't all just 40s and 50s
any steel cents?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think almost everyone bought an "unsearched roll" on ebay when they started. It's a curiosity thing until you realize it wasn't worth it. It is fun at first but then you never do it again. lol. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Based on the dates there were obviously prepared rolls by a selling hoping to get a lot more than $20/roll. I'll say it for the millionth time: THERE ARE NO UNSEARCHED ROLLS ON ebay. If you see the word "unsearched", that should be your clue to LEAVE that auction. BAH! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Right On BadThad! I was tempted at first when I saw these on ebay (especially with the IHC showing), but I never went for it and I'm glad I didn't. |
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Valued Member
 United States
450 Posts |
Thad is right , I am sure the LWC's have been searched through the years :P |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10635 Posts |
Quote: THERE ARE NO UNSEARCHED ROLLS ON ebay It seems the more elaborate the unsearched "story" they present, the bigger the lie. Notice how they all start sounding the same after a while? "My uncle had these in a coffee can from 50 years ago, and they have been untouched since then and are completely unsearched." Then you look at the seller's feedback and the guy is a coin dealer! And he expects us to believe he didn't closely inspect every single one of them? Give me a break! But we keep believing these made up stories because we want to be the one buyer on ebay that really did find that untouched coffee can of gems! Les |
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United States
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I've trained my eyes to no longer even recognize the prefix "un" on ebay. So when there is a lot that says unsearched, I only see SEARCHED. Easy to avoid the auctions then. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote: I've trained my eyes to no longer even recognize the prefix "un" on ebay. So when there is a lot that says unsearched, I only see SEARCHED. Easy to avoid the auctions then. LOL! That's a GREAT way to think of them! If the auctions told the truth and said "I have searched through these coins several times now and haven't been able to find a single coin worth anything and these are the leftovers," then what would you bid for them? What ever happened to truth in advertising? Les |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't know. A while back I cleaned my wheats of culls (dark or green or beat to death). Sold them easliy on ebay described as culls with picture. No, I didn't make what they are trying for (a.k.a. stupid money) but I got what they are worth. |
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United States
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Is hard to buy a coin from ebay per the actual value ! I been trying to buy couple keydates for months and manytimes I'm the winner bidder and when the action ends shows the title " you didnt win this auction " ! So what I'm saying the sellers on ebay want 20% plus at least or they wont give you the coin . If a coin worth $10 and you bidd $10 plus their $3 or more for shipping they are not satisfy . Before people jump on me I ll say its have nothing to do with automatic bidding because you are the higher bidder , there is many ways of manipulate feedback and with different accounts you can also bidd somebody's offer to try to make the person to offer more or just dont sell the coin ! Im about to say I'm done with ebay but I only see it when is about coins !. |
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United States
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Here's an equation for anyone buying wheat rolls on ebay. $.04 per coin plus whatever the value of the strangely placed end coins. (Oh it happens to have a beat up IHC or a common merc on the end of this unsearched roll). My favorite - the reverse of a VDB. Could be an "s" you know. Or a 1909 IHC, I'm quite sure it's from San Fran.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Upstate I have seen that too where it says '1909 VDB showing...could have an S'! It could have a S .... and be a counterfeit one! My thought would be to find something good it would be someone selling a stockpile for cheap from their grandparents collection, selling it for over face but not realizing there is a 1914-D mixed in!
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United States
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Am I the ONLY person who ever sold true unsearched wheats on ebay? About a year ago my father had about 4500 wheats, needed the money and I just never had the chance to go through them, threw them up on ebay got 7x FV. Still kicking myself in the butt for not searching them first (I wouldn't have listed them as unsearched if I went through them, FYI) I wonder if someone on CCF bought them... |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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akane - I'm sure he looked at them and the previous million people that had them looked at them too. 99.999% of the good stuff was picked years ago. Finding anything good this late in the game is pure luck and probably the result of someone unknowningly (or don't care) dumping a collection into a coin star machine.
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United States
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You all keep that attitude. Because I will buy them all the time if I can snage em for a decent price. Why? Because there ARE plenty of hoarders out there from back when that are starting to pass away now. How many ammo boxes are sitting out there full of nickels and pennies that grandpa tossed every penny or nickel in there and never did anything with them? TONS. Grandpa dies and the kids get a machine, roll them and put them on ebay. It DOES happen, as akane says. Thad, in my example, which is certainly real world, how would those coins have been searched? If grandpa was hoarding back in the 40's, how searched are those really going to be? And we all know how lazy people are. No way the kids do any searching, unless by chance one is a collector, which is a slim chance. People being lazy and wanting a quick buck with the least expended effort and there you go. Now, does this happen often? Of course not. I'm not a starry eyed idiot. BUT, it DOES happen. Yes, a lot of those deals on ebay are bogus. But I have got my moneys worth on them by being smart about what I buy. And one of these days I may just get lucky and run into one of these thats for real. And even just a 24D or 31S would make it all good. So you all keep that attitude and increase my odds. :) |
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