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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    the dead guy you're talking to wouldn't know what was in the box.

    @jmcu12 was last active on Sep 7, 2023 ;)

    May his soul rest in peace

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,321 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 23, 2024 8:41AM

    I would have opened it. It’s no fun to just look at a box and wonder what’s inside.

    Even if it was a common date, but in high grade, I would’ve been happy.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    the dead guy you're talking to wouldn't know what was in the box.

    @jmcu12 was last active on Sep 7, 2023 ;)

    Wow, he passed away recently.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerfan said:
    I would have opened it. It’s no fun to just look at a box and wonder what’s inside.

    Even if it was a common date, but in high grade, I would’ve been happy.

    Except it likely would sell for more sealed than open.

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,321 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 23, 2024 8:53AM

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @Walkerfan said:
    I would have opened it. It’s no fun to just look at a box and wonder what’s inside.

    Even if it was a common date, but in high grade, I would’ve been happy.

    Except it likely would sell for more sealed than open.

    Then I definitely would have sold it long ago.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • 124Spider124Spider Posts: 941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerfan said:
    I would have opened it. It’s no fun to just look at a box and wonder what’s inside.

    Even if it was a common date, but in high grade, I would’ve been happy.

    I wouldn't have bought it in the first place. It's just another form of VaultBox gambling (not coin collecting).

    That said, it would be fun to hear what was in the package! ;)

  • AlanSkiAlanSki Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

    2004ish I was in some third world dump bringing some American freedom from the skies to people who didn’t want it.

  • cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 5,831 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 23, 2024 3:31PM

    I still have an unopened GSA package from GSAGuy. The date is on the shipping label.

    Many happy BST transactions
  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Somebody's playing with Mr Peabodys way back machine!

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 23, 2024 3:49PM

    I'm waiting for the GSA offerings of SBA, Sacagawea, and Presidential dollars ftom the mint's vaults. :o

  • VasantiVasanti Posts: 455 ✭✭✭✭

  • CryptoCrypto Posts: 3,697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Holy freaking thread Resurrection, Batman

  • johnny010johnny010 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmcu12
    Hoping you’re still around buddy

  • SurfinxHISurfinxHI Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've got like 20 of these I've collected over the years. Several have the date on the shipping label, others are from the 5 packs and are just plain white boxes.

    Gambling?

    Only if you are trying to profit!

    :):p

    Dead people tell interesting tales.
  • GoldFinger1969GoldFinger1969 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 23, 2024 11:35PM

    Based on the above info, I would be willing to bet that you have an 1882/3/4 coin, probably worth 1/3 of what you
    paid for that sealed box

    Someone posted that in 2004. Would that be true today ?

    Considering the GSA sales took place in the 1970's, unless you bought during the 1979-80 bubble, I would think the coins should be up-or-flat since then, no ?

  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 24, 2024 1:26AM

    The previous time I posted a comment to this thread was 20 years ago. I am not dead but am now 70 and not in diapers when last time I was 50. I still have all my unopened GSA silver dollars in both the unopened inner white boxes as well as my unopened outer USPS mailing boxes from the 1970’s. I have been patient over 50 years now!

    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerfan said:
    I would have opened it. It’s no fun to just look at a box and wonder what’s inside.

    Even if it was a common date, but in high grade, I would’ve been happy.

    I am happier knowing the date but not yet knowing the grade. I have enough GSA silver dollars to play with

    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,598 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It occurred to me that those who waited to open them have kept them long enough there the OGP has a premium.

    How many countless GSA dollars were cracked out years ago and the provenance lost.

  • @braddick said:

    How many of us will be in diapers twenty years after this thread is finished?

    I wear diapers just so I don't have to get up so much 😆

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    It occurred to me that those who waited to open them have kept them long enough there the OGP has a premium.

    How many countless GSA dollars were cracked out years ago and the provenance lost.

    I had some a few years ago. They do have a premium but it is small and I think tied to the possible quality of the coin not the packaging. You get very little premium, if any, for a coin with opened OGP which is more common.

  • CryptoCrypto Posts: 3,697 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    It occurred to me that those who waited to open them have kept them long enough there the OGP has a premium.

    How many countless GSA dollars were cracked out years ago and the provenance lost.

    If it is a white(ish) UNC CC….. you know where it came from.

  • coastaljerseyguycoastaljerseyguy Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I collected these 15 years ago and remember EBAY selling the just the COAs. I think the 82-84's were around $15-20, but there was 1 or 2 that were well over $50. Maybe the 78/85CC or 90/91. Guess folks didn't keep these COAs and then when the OGP and box became popular, folks were trying to put the package together again. Also low # COAs were marketed as if that meant something.

  • Cranium_Basher73Cranium_Basher73 Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After resurrecting a 20 year old thread.....

    Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.

  • Cranium_Basher73Cranium_Basher73 Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.

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