Good price ya think?

SamThompson

$200 including shipping for a bag of 5,000 wheats, mostly 40's and 50's

DesertRat

I have a sparkletts bottle full of penny's. I'll gladly sell them for $.04 each

I guess it really depends on what treasures await you as you search through them all. Yours being all wheats though makes it a fun treasure hunt.

I am contemplating dumping my bottle and going through them...been tossing all my copper in there for close on 20 years now without ever really looking at what I have tossed. If nothing more it is a good way to spend spare time.

SamThompson

My goal is more like turning a profit on ebay. Wanna buy a pound?

kryptonitecomics

The last time I bought 5,000 I paid $160, but that was a few years ago. In addition I had plenty of coins from 1909-1958 so it wasn't a just a large group of 40's and 50's. It also included plenty of 1909 VDB and Mint marked issues in the teens as well as a 1922-D and several other better date coins. (1931,1932) etc.

Good Luck!!!

DesertRat

Question - You buy a bag like this and as Sam says he wants to sell them on E-bay...I assume by the pound. In the case of someone who is truly treasure hunting, what are the odds of finding a rarity in a bag like this? What do people then do after they have picked over the entire bag and gleaned what they want from it, Sell them by the pound again? Just a curiosity question I guess.

LincolnCentMan

I remember about six years ago, I was buying them from a local dealer for $75 a bag. ...I'd sell them on ebay for $130-$160 a bag. ...those were the days. Now, they're worth closer to what you're asking. Good luck with the sale.

David

Rampage

I paid $140.00 for a bag 5 years ago and they were, as said, more than 40s-50s! I had an even, but proportional, mix of teens all the way up. I found several semi-key dates. Not finished searching them yet. Save them for rainy days.

All in all, very much worth what I paid for them.

I would not pay that price you paid for 5,000 though. For that, I would have paid $120.00. All that is there are common 40s-50s cents.

JMHO though.

SamThompson

I don't plan on searching them. Too meticulous for my personality

pontiacinf

I bought 20 pounds froma guy who saved cents since the 50's...let me tell ya there was no junk in that bag. i sorted it out, sold 09-30's to darin and sold the rest to ebayers

oh and I gave merz a 22 weak D

zzzz

A few years ago I bought 18,000 "unsearched" wheats .. just for my nephews to go through ... With their Whitnam albums in hand ... I think they still have 10,000 or so to go through .. IMHO I think that's all the bulk "unsearched" wheats are good for .. potential YN's in your family ..

relayer

Perhaps you could dump them on other suckers on eBay by selling them for $2.00 each by advertising some kind of retirement sale and hold a lottery style auction, you know the kind where you advertise GOLD-SILVER FOUND and only sell wheat cents?

Nah, eBay would probably kick you off if you tried to pull that stunt.

Bochiman

<< <i>Perhaps you could dump them on other suckers on eBay by selling them for $2.00 each by advertising some kind of retirement sale and hold a lottery style auction, you know the kind where you advertise GOLD-SILVER FOUND and only sell wheat cents?

Nah, eBay would probably kick you off if you tried to pull that stunt. >>

ss350camaro

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BUSTED !!!!

kieferscoins

This thread explains it all

Cameron Kiefer

Russ

<< <i>Perhaps you could dump them on other suckers on eBay by selling them for $2.00 each by advertising some kind of retirement sale and hold a lottery style auction >>



Yep, he could run an auction similar to this one.

This sleazer has been thoroughly busted by Sheriff Sample Slab.

Russ, NCNE

puff

<< <i>This thread explains it all

Cameron Kiefer >>



Congrats on bustin this bastidge Cam!

sliderider

<< <i>Perhaps you could dump them on other suckers on eBay by selling them for $2.00 each by advertising some kind of retirement sale and hold a lottery style auction, you know the kind where you advertise GOLD-SILVER FOUND and only sell wheat cents?

Nah, eBay would probably kick you off if you tried to pull that stunt. >>



The emoticon doesn't exist for how hard I am laughing right now.

coppercoins

Bought a bag for $150, mixed wheats last month. Also bought a bag containing 30s only for $200. Offer is still out on a bag of pre-war mixed dates at $250.