Another lunch visit

Weiss

And another consolation prize:



$.50 face, baby! $6 out the door. I can't believe I'm buying 90% in such small amounts




I had the afternoon off, so an hour later I swung back by to pick up some tubes and lo and behold, he'd just gotten in another batch. Now we're talking!




All told about $30 face. Fantastic mix of mercs (including a '16 [how long you reckon I squinted at that reverse!? ], SLQs (including a VG '27), early washington quarters, a mess of VG+ walkers, a few XF/AU Frankies and some BU kennedys, and topped it off with a 1911 Barber dime, 1895 Barber quarter, and 1907-O Barber half. Out the door at 12x face.

We've touched on the problems of buying face in larger lots before. First time that this is ever happened to me, but included in the mix of close to 100 silver dimes was a plain old 1986. No way I blame my dealer, the dime was stained and at first glance it looked exactly like the few other roosies in the mix. And I know he hadn't had time to go through the lot since I'd been in earlier. It's kind of a drag to pay $1.10 too much for a dime, but it's a small price to pay to keep on getting first crack at good stuff at a good price. And like I said, there were some pretty choice coins to get for face in this bunch.

PreTurb

My collector side gets a thrill from seeing all that old silver, my silver hoarding side just wants 1964 Kennedy's.

Thanks for posting!!!

ttown

Nice score! It worries me that all this older lower/middle grade coins may be melted if silver were to spike. That would certainly hurt the hobby but it might bring good money for those that hang on or hang on too late.

Weiss

ttown, I guarantee you older coins like this are pouring into crucibles at a good clip and I know they practically flew into the melting pot during the '80s run-up. I really believe it's getting scarce. Mercs and frankies are plentiful--relatively speaking. But I just don't see anywhere near the amount of walkers or slqs I used to.

CaptHenway

I cull out the decent Mercs and Walkers and sell them as junk silver at a small premium over our regular junk silver.
The lesser pieces are potential melters.

Weiss.......would it kill you to drive up I-57 for lunch in Chicago some day??????????

LOL!

Weiss

I love Chicago but the older I get the less I like going up. It's the drive that kills me. I'm so used to getting anywhere in town within 10 minutes of turning the ignition. Driving 2+ hours to be stuck in traffic sucks!