My $5 Garage Sale Find
Stingray63
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Finally had a nice weekend for a change and while heading back from an AM trip to Walmart for some misc auto supplies came across a garage sale. If it were all clothes I saw I would have just kept driving but it looked interesting. Didn't uncover any of those rare, beautiful coins I dream of stumbling across but did find this pack of war nickels for $5. Nothing beautiful other than all being in there. For the price I thought it was cool enough to pick up. Note what appears to be the original price sticker of $.79 on the back. I'm sure that was just for the insert card and plastic sleeve whenever it was bought.
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Nice pickup.
I'm still waiting for that yard sale where I find an 1856 Flying Eagle or gorgeous CC Morgan or something like that.
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Check that 1942 for 42/43 overdate......you never know
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I believe it is the 43/42 overdate.
bob
Thanks for the heads up! Took a look but not there.
Have to add, the nickels are dark. The photo makes them look lighter than they really are.
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Homeruns are great but if you can string enough singles together they mean something, too.
Nice ole war nickels for a good price!
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I mentioned this because once at a live auction I was sitting next to a man and his wife. They didn't do much bidding and we talked a little. Then came on the block, a set of war nickels in a capital plastic holder. They both stopped everything and focused on the lot. I'm like ??? they won the lot and got up and started hugging each other I'm still like ???? A minute later I asked about it and he then told me that it contained the overdate. Nobody else saw it. I believe he paid around $100 for the lot.
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Beautiful Find!
First of all, you got it way under spot.
Second, like mentioned above, it's fun to check for any varieties.
Third, it's the complete set in a special holder, as well.
You can always replace the Nickels with much higher grades.
And
Fourth,
For only $5!
Great thread.
Congratulations
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.A good deal all around. The holder is starting to become collectable also, specially with the price on it.
Pete
They had no other coins at this garage sale. I asked and was hoping for "Oh we have others, I'll be right back". No such luck. If the insert wasn't complete and it was just a few loose ones I most likely wouldn't have bothered and kept scanning what else was for sale. It was that the insert was complete and all years and mint marks were in the right slot and that it didn't look put together recently that I bought them. Aside from the nickels looking darker than they appear in the photo, there is a bit of yellowing on the card that doesn't show up either. Most likely exposed to some humidity and moisture wherever it may have been stored.
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I would rather find a 45 double monticello!
Many well known RPM's too!
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.The Nickels will be a darker color, mainly from the tarnish of being a 35% silver nickel. The ones that I have found out of circulation are even darker than this. When I go through rolls of nickels I look at the role with all 40 in my hand at one time in the very very dark rim of the war nickel is very apparent. What a wonderful find. The nickels are worth about a dollar 30 each depending on the daily spot price of silver. You still come out ahead and have a wonderful addition to your collection. 🤗
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You mean they didn't repurpose a 1943 die in 1942?
It may have been intentional if the mint was trying to conserve steel during the height of WWII.
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It was a joke.
1942 comes before 1943.
Maybe he thought you meant BC.
I thought you may have mixed the dates up. Oh, well.
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Or a 1982 die in 1981?
Cool group.
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There are cases where erroneous dates were overstruck as well as repurposing old dies. Look at bust halves. There all kinds of combinations.
What coin is this? It looks cool.
Mexico- 20 centavos.
Very cool!
Heck yeah! Nice pick-up for five bucks.
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Mexico also famous for its mint manufactured errors. They mass produced them like they were gumballs.
Yep. At a Long Beach show about 15 years or so (?) ago, one dealer had a canvas mint bag filled with them. The end of the bag was open and they were spilling out into the case. Clips, off centers, double strikes- all kinds of stuff. And for something more recent...
Yup. There they are. I also enjoy the varied metal composition.
Coins like these showed up in the market 20 years after the reason for their original creation no longer existed. In metals that were not known to have been used at the time. And then, "errors" were discovered. Which makes no sense for coins that are supposedly patterns.
Maybe some of the San Francisco Mint workers provided technical assistance?
Great find, you can't even get a burger for $5 anymore
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Was there anything special other than the overdate that bidders bid up to $100 for common warnicks or were they unc.
That is a good find at a garage sale... I would have purchased it if I were to see one. Good price, good condition. Cheers, RickO