What to do with 300+ Lincoln Wheat Cents? Die cracks/gouges, D/D, Lamination, Filled Digits
nesvt
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While I was at my in-laws during the holidays, my father-in-law told me he had cleaned out his desk. He separated all of the wheat cents, put them in a ziploc bag, and asked me to go through them to see if anything was valuable. I know nothing about cents.
Brought them home and opened the Red Book. I separated them by decade. There are roughly 350 coins.
200 - 1950's
130 - 1940's (two 1943-P steel cents)
16 - 1930's
4 - 1929-P
2 - 1925-P
1 - 1919-P
1 - 1914-P
1 - 1909-P (no VDB, but it does have a huge rim ding)
The coins vary in condition from G to AU. The AU's are 1957-D's and there are only a few. Most are crusty and many have green stuff. I only looked for the stuff in the Red Book... 1955 double die, 1944-D D/S, and 1946-S S/D. While I was sorting by date, I pulled out anything with die cracks or other visible abnormalities. There are several coins with blobs of extra metal, one coins looked like PLURIBUS is doubled, a 1957-D looks like a D/D, a few lamination errors, and other stuff. See the photos below (sorry for the white balance issues).
Now what? Are there errors I should look for? Should I put them on ebay as a semi-searched lot? Should I put the odd ones on eBay and the rest as a lot? Do the photos show anything special?
He thinks they're worth 6 cents each. I'm thinking 2 cents. He's a super nice guy and I don't mind looking further, but I think I've already spent too much time. Any advice is appreciated.
Brought them home and opened the Red Book. I separated them by decade. There are roughly 350 coins.
200 - 1950's
130 - 1940's (two 1943-P steel cents)
16 - 1930's
4 - 1929-P
2 - 1925-P
1 - 1919-P
1 - 1914-P
1 - 1909-P (no VDB, but it does have a huge rim ding)
The coins vary in condition from G to AU. The AU's are 1957-D's and there are only a few. Most are crusty and many have green stuff. I only looked for the stuff in the Red Book... 1955 double die, 1944-D D/S, and 1946-S S/D. While I was sorting by date, I pulled out anything with die cracks or other visible abnormalities. There are several coins with blobs of extra metal, one coins looked like PLURIBUS is doubled, a 1957-D looks like a D/D, a few lamination errors, and other stuff. See the photos below (sorry for the white balance issues).
Now what? Are there errors I should look for? Should I put them on ebay as a semi-searched lot? Should I put the odd ones on eBay and the rest as a lot? Do the photos show anything special?
He thinks they're worth 6 cents each. I'm thinking 2 cents. He's a super nice guy and I don't mind looking further, but I think I've already spent too much time. Any advice is appreciated.
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Nothing special here in my opinion.
Lamination was common with them, so was the blobs of extra metal and so forth.
You seem to know the rare varieties, and if you didn't find any that's that.
And they are searched. You searched them.
They should sell for around 4¢ each on Ebay.
Don't bother mentioning whether they're searched or not, just list the quantity and date range, and start the auction at a very low price. Also keep the shipping cost real.
Ray
I'd suggest putting them up on Ebay,
in lots of 20-50, or whatever you think
is appropriate.
They'll bring more that way.......