Wonder why people buy the things if they aren't even going to open them!
By the way, I'm familiar with the seller. Nice coin shop, and good people. So in case you had any question about the item, I'm pretty sure you're in good hands.
Open 'em up and look for a peg legged "R". If you find one, slab it and sell it for 5 times what you bought the lot for! Good luck.
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Not sure how the silver Ikes were sent out in the blue packs, but I am guessing that is what you have. I bought an unopened box of 5 brown box Ikes and it was nothing like your package.
<< <i><< I have been wondering since you first posted how you knew these are actually Ikes. The answer is you don't?? >>
Give that man a stogie!
You're absolutely correct, I don't know. I asked a few folks how to tell and nobody seems to know. >>
Usually on unopened shipping packs you can get an idea of what's inside by looking at the quantity and the total price. Here's an example:
Since I know that mint sets cost $2.50 in 1970, I knew that's what was inside the envelope. On yours, though, it has an order number instead of a price. Interesting.
Last year I bought an unopened priority mail box containing five '99 silver proof sets, and every time I see it sitting there, a strip of clear packing tape over the opening, I feel slightly foolish. My motivation was to peek and make sure the real deal was in there, but still I feel like a kid who sneaked open a package a week before Christmas. And I wonder, when I got to turn these over on ebay or somewhere, if they've they've lost just a tad of cache for my opening it.
Outhaul, now I know who got this item! I was watching it for a customer but he only wanted to spend $40 for it so when it went past that, I gave up watching it.
Personally, I'd open it. It is the real reason you bought it isn't it?
Everything starts and everything stops at precisely the right time for precisely the right reason.
you seem to have reaped your own reward by bidding to deprive another of his/her prize. i think you oughta just hang onto it for the time-being, maybe list it from time to time with a high BIN to see if it moves. if/when you do open it, you should make a really big deal out of it like opening it at a big show in front of a bunch of forum members.
Weigh the package. Weigh an empty envelope of the same size. 5 times the weight of one Ike plus the weight of 5 small envelopes and the large empty envelope should be close to what your package weighs. If it's very close then you'll know what you've got. If not, then open it to see what's inside.
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Weight will be the key to tell what is in it. Since it is an envelope we know that it is either Blue Ikes or Mint sets. (Proof sets and Brown Ikes came in boxes. Five Mint sets will weigh considerably moe than five Blue Ikes. A Mint set will weigh about twice as much as a blue Ike.)
In the early 1960's a rise in the silver market and a perceived shortage of small coinage began a process where our silver coins was worth more as silver than it's face value. This extraordinary event lead to a run on the U.S. Treasury departments holdings of silver dollars which lasted until March of 1964, when the Treasury disallowed the release of any more silver dollars, disbursing silver only in the form of granules.
There in the vaults the remaining 3,000,000 or so silver dollars lay until 1971 when they were turned over to the General Services Administration for sale to the public. The GSA devised a plan to sell these pieces via a mail-bid auction backed up by a major marketing plan. Five separate mail-bid auctions were held from 1972 through 1974 and a final sale in 1980.
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. --Severian the Lame
If you don't care about them then why open the package? It will get at least a small premium as an unopened package. The odds of a nice PL in the package are extremely poor. You'd have to look at hundreds of these to find quality like that.
Then again if there's one gem then there will be more.
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By the way, I'm familiar with the seller. Nice coin shop, and good people. So in case you had any question about the item, I'm pretty sure you're in good hands.
Open them and hope there is one that will grade high.
Open them and spend them.
<< <i>Open them and spend them >>
SILVER Ikes? I don't THINK so!
<< <i>I think a Giveaway is in order here >>
Should've expected that, only I was more expecting it from Marty or Russ!
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<< <i>Open 'em up and look for a peg legged "R". >>
Hmmm...never thought of that!
<< <i>Put them on your yacht and sell them as shipwreck effect >>
Ahhhhhh...me boat...
Cheers,
Bob
That would be pretty cool.
Ken
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Cheers,
Bob
I bought an unopened box of 5 brown box Ikes and it was nothing like your package.
So, I think you have the blue packs.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
<< <i>I have been wondering since you first posted how you knew these are actually Ikes. The answer is you don't?? >>
Give that man a stogie!
You're absolutely correct, I don't know. I asked a few folks how to tell and nobody seems to know. So, I have an unopened package of 1971 something.
<< <i><< I have been wondering since you first posted how you knew these are actually Ikes. The answer is you don't?? >>
Give that man a stogie!
You're absolutely correct, I don't know. I asked a few folks how to tell and nobody seems to know. >>
Usually on unopened shipping packs you can get an idea of what's inside by looking at the quantity and the total price. Here's an example:
Since I know that mint sets cost $2.50 in 1970, I knew that's what was inside the envelope. On yours, though, it has an order number instead of a price. Interesting.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>As I remember, you scored that package as a single set, not 4 sets. >>
Close. The seller had it listed as two "proof" sets, so I picked it off for about $25.
Russ, NCNE
NO!!!
I'd sell it at the next Westford show.
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You most likely have run of the mill items, or slightly ugly.
But, I would open it anyway on the chance you have something nice
Or, if you are scared, send to me and I will open for you.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
<< <i>I only bid on them to piss off someone else who has a habit of sending nasty e-mails to those who snipe him out...
NOW that's HILLARIOUS!!!!
Personally, I'd open it. It is the real reason you bought it isn't it?
you seem to have reaped your own reward by bidding to deprive another of his/her prize. i think you oughta just hang onto it for the time-being, maybe list it from time to time with a high BIN to see if it moves. if/when you do open it, you should make a really big deal out of it like opening it at a big show in front of a bunch of forum members.
al h.
big show in front of a bunch of forum members.
That's a fun idea - maybe some other members can obtain some mystery packages and
all could be opened at the same time!
Ken
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<< <i>How does one know exactly what is in the envelope? Can you look up an order number that old?
Cheers,
Bob >>
Read the label:
Uncirculated Dollars Ordered: 5
Year : 1971
I'm afraid to be alive without being aware of it
Cheers,
Bob
In the early 1960's a rise in the silver market and a perceived shortage of small coinage began a process where our silver coins was worth more as silver than it's face value. This extraordinary event lead to a run on the U.S. Treasury departments holdings of silver dollars which lasted until March of 1964, when the Treasury disallowed the release of any more silver dollars, disbursing silver only in the form of granules.
There in the vaults the remaining 3,000,000 or so silver dollars lay until 1971 when they were turned over to the General Services Administration for sale to the public. The GSA devised a plan to sell these pieces via a mail-bid auction backed up by a major marketing plan. Five separate mail-bid auctions were held from 1972 through 1974 and a final sale in 1980.
--Severian the Lame
<< <i>Five separate mail-bid auctions were held from 1972 through 1974 >>
That isn't 1971.
Dennis
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If you don't care about them then why open the package? It will get at least a small
premium as an unopened package. The odds of a nice PL in the package are extremely
poor. You'd have to look at hundreds of these to find quality like that.
Then again if there's one gem then there will be more.