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Back in the day....

HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 22, 2021 8:10AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Back in the day where a roll of mint bag searcher could score big time, before the mint started to use better technologies for quality control.
I loved searching...and it paid off ...here are just 2 I have left out of a mess of Jefferson errors. Well I do have a date set raw of off centers from 5% to about 75% off center. I have a 99 D that 96% off with only 95 D and FS seen. Ill need to image that one to post.
In those days it was great fun cherrypicking errors. I had off centers, brockace, double strikes triple strikes, clips chips....all found in rolls and mint bage. Heres two that NGC graded .
I sent them like 50 specimens and some with full steps.
They liked my high grade Jeffs so much they even called me asking what else I had that needed to be graded.




Check out the 83 p partial collar / with obv. Brockage....can you read whats in the brockage? United from the reverse.

"That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"

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  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really cool! Were these from bags at the time?

  • HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TurtleCat said:
    Really cool! Were these from bags at the time?

    Yes

    "That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"

  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always wanted to find cool stuff like that. I was too young and too poor to get bags (or even know bags were available).

  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TurtleCat said:
    I always wanted to find cool stuff like that. I was too young and too poor to get bags (or even know bags were available).

    If I wanted to find anything like that now, it'll have to fit into a roll!

    Really neat errors. Great finds.

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  • HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TurtleCat said:
    I always wanted to find cool stuff like that. I was too young and too poor to get bags (or even know bags were

    I never had a problem ordering bags,or rolls....or searching them....however returning them well...thats another story. As when I got married my folks came to me and the new wife about all the bags squirreled away in my old bed room,and the basement.
    I was told to get them out now! Well I did and actually paid the note off on my new car...that made the new wife very happy!

    "That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's some very nice stuff, Patrick!

  • HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks Ron I appreciate your comp.

    "That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"

  • HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I recall when I found the 99 D and discovered that the 99 D and FS were readable I was like doing the happy dance...as ive have found some sweet errors but this one really got me excited as it was to cool to be true.

    "That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those are great error finds. As I have said before on the forum, the only real error I have found in change is a blank cent planchet. Roll searching for me was half dollars... and nothing of note there except for a couple of WLH's. Cheers, RickO

  • LazybonesLazybones Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Back in the day you could also buy common date Saints for $40.

    USAF (Ret) 1974 - 1994 - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.

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