Anyone know dealers that carry a lot of mint sealed bags of coins? Not state qtrs or 04/05 nickels

pennyannie

Anyone know of any dealers that carry a large stock of mint sealed bags of nickels, dimes and quarters from the 1960's thru to the early 1990's. Actually i am looking for 1963 nickels and 1991 nickels and quarters. Finding bags of Lincoln cents is not to hard but i have never run across mint bags of quarters, dimes and nickels.

cladking

<< <i>Anyone know of any dealers that carry a large stock of mint sealed bags of nickels, dimes and quarters from the 1960's thru to the early 1990's. Actually i am looking for 1963 nickels and 1991 nickels and quarters. Finding bags of Lincoln cents is not to hard but i have never run across mint bags of quarters, dimes and nickels. >>




You've got your work cut out for you.


The '63 nickels are distressinly common and finding a bag will just take a little
patience but '91 nickels will prove quite elusive. There might not be ten of these
bags in existence. Rolls aren't that tough though. Forget the quarters. Even
rolls of these are elusive.

pennyannie

Cladking- Thanks for the encouragement. LOL I travel a lot across the US and always ask and never find. Now i have had 100's of mint sewn lincoln cents over the years. I did let a nickel and quarter bag (not a 90's) slip away a year ago.Some collectors 50 years from now may have a hard time filling some holes on modern junk.

shottaker

I would check with a few guys that do modern bulk.
Julian jarvis
midwest coins
Some of the larger wholesalers/warehousers might be candidates also
Silvertown
Arizona Coin
Chatanooga coin

These guys might not have bags. Maybe just rolls in bulk. Should get you started though. Dont expect them to be cheap either.

Find which armored car service you bank uses. Go to a podunk town in the middle of nowhere and order tons of nickels (like 4-5k at a time). Its got to be enough to dain them fairly well without them placing a special order of more just for you. Take them back to another branch far far away. SOmetimes they have some old stuff laying around on an old pallet in the back. Wont get any 63 nickels but I've gotten stuff back to the late 80's in bag form doing this.

Another idea is if youre very flush you can do this. Go to your bank and speak with the vault teller. Have her place a call to the local federal reserve through the banks MAIN vault teller (In their regional HQ). Buy everything they have on hand atm. Believe it or not I know of a dealer who did it with dollar coins a few years back.....
Our local federal reserve branch is detroit which is a sub branch so not so huge as say chicago which is a full branch and serves several states.

BTW send me some 09 nickels if you have that much juice.

cladking

<< <i>I would check with a few guys that do modern bulk.
Julian jarvis
midwest coins
Some of the larger wholesalers/warehousers might be candidates also
Silvertown
Arizona Coin
Chatanooga coin

These guys might not have bags. Maybe just rolls in bulk. Should get you started though. Dont expect them to be cheap either.

Find which armored car service you bank uses. Go to a podunk town in the middle of nowhere and order tons of nickels (like 4-5k at a time). Its got to be enough to dain them fairly well without them placing a special order of more just for you. Take them back to another branch far far away. SOmetimes they have some old stuff laying around on an old pallet in the back. Wont get any 63 nickels but I've gotten stuff back to the late 80's in bag form doing this.

Another idea is if youre very flush you can do this. Go to your bank and speak with the vault teller. Have her place a call to the local federal reserve through the banks MAIN vault teller (In their regional HQ). Buy everything they have on hand atm. Believe it or not I know of a dealer who did it with dollar coins a few years back.....
Our local federal reserve branch is detroit which is a sub branch so not so huge as say chicago which is a full branch and serves several states.

BTW send me some 09 nickels if you have that much juice. >>




These are the "usual suspects". You might try Modern Coin Mart as well.

cladking

Arlan Kramer is still active in Shartlesville, PA, I believe. He might be your best bet. (PO Box 1)

Elmer Childs might still be around.

cladking

Give it up.

Type2

I found two and only two all the time I ben looking. 1962-P some nice nickels this is what they look likein the bag.












I found a lot of Full steps I have one bag that I did not open yet.

shottaker

Might want to give some of the larger regional guys a call in your area also. The big buyers in metro areas. Liberty in Lansing Michigan had a ton of original rolls a few years back from the 60's era. I bought a couple bags of nickels from them at one time when I just happened to be in. Had some clients for them and asked and they had a couple. At least put the bug in their ear. Usually if you buy them out of bank rolls they know youre a serious buyer and will make sure to call.

I'll try to remember to ask around and see if I can scare some up. A lot of times items like these believe it or not become vault doorstops..

cladking

Penny bags made since 1964 are all available. Only the 1974 to 1976 are fairly common
but they're all out there and strong offers will get them. Some dates are really a lot more
difficult. Something like the '84-D is a bear but the price reflects it and it can be found.

Nickel bags are available as well. Availability is much spottier. Something like a '92-P will
be quite difficult. With a bid around $4,000 you can likely get one with effort.

Most of the dimes won't be available. Perhaps about half of the pre-2000 dates can be
found but most will take some effort. Offers far in excess of bid might be necessary espec-
ially on some of the lower priced issues.

Quarters will be even tougher than dimes and with more dates unavailable. There was a
guy out east who had a bag set but I believe this hoard has been dispersed.

Half dollars are similar to nickels in that availability is spotty. Where they are available they
will tend to exist in smaller numbers.

The dollars are all common except the Ikes. The Ikes were common but these have mostly
been split up over the years.

Of course all the bicentennial coins are pretty common by the bag but the low price might
make them seem a lot less common than they are. The '76 type I might be tougher but I
don't know. I suspect it's tough because the roll price is high.

You just aren't going to find bags of clad. It's hard enough to find any rolls in some cases.

cladking

You might try Scotsman Coin in St Louis. They don't specialize in this sort of
thing but they handle large amounts of coins.