sack o' sacs from the credit onion
lordmarcovan
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I'm in these for only face value, so make me an offer.
It need not be a huge premium- just enough to cover face value plus maybe ten bucks for a Priority Mail Flat Rate box and insurance, plus a few dollars to put in my pocket.
You and I can haggle over that last part, about how many dollars to put in my pocket.
I don't think the plastic trays would fit into a small Flat Rate box, so if you want those, a different shipping option will be necessary. I believe the rolls themselves will fit. (Will try that in a moment.)
(Text below is mostly copied from my US Coin Forum post)
I was at my credit union today. I'd been thinking of doing a scavenger hunt for my daughter's birthday, involving some dollar coins and halves, if I could find them. I asked the teller if they had any. She said no halves. They seldom have those, but I did hit a nice lick and score three or four rolls of solid 40% Kennedies several years back, when bullion was much lower.
The teller said she did have dollar coins, but they were Sacagaweas. For some reason, though she said they were Sackies, my brain thought they were Suzies. I said, "yeah, let me see those- they're obsolete, now".
So she brought 'em out. Four trays containing eighteen rolls of "golden" dollars.
Then she said, "yeah, a member was going to buy a new house and needed money, so he cashed in all kinds of sets of coins".
At the word "sets", my antennae went up a bit.
Sure enough, it would appear that this sack o' Sacs is in fact a roll set. I picked up a few rolls and saw some of those later dates like 2007 and 2008 that one never sees in circulation around here. Kind of cool.
But this put me in a bit of a pickle because buying the whole set (plus some additional rolls of Prez bucks and Native Americans) required me to dip into my savings deeper than expected.
Still, at face value, I figured, I could always just redeposit 'em if I had to.
I'm almost certain this is indeed a roll set like the teller said it was. Some of the rolls have both end pieces with reverse-out, but there are nine rolls each from Philadelphia and Denver, and no duplication in the visible dates. They're still in US Mint wrappers.
P-MINTS
Apparently there were Statehood quarter and nickel sets also turned in that I missed out on.
Oh- one thing- somebody has just educated me on these, since I'm woefully out of touch on modern coins, being mostly into ancients these days.
I'm told the yellow-wrapped Sacs were available at banks back in 2000, without the mintmark on the wrapper, while the Mint sold their wrapped rolls for $35.95 with mintmark printed on the wrapper. The 2002-2008's were only available from the mint at a premium, which I would guess accounts for why I've never really seen those in circulation.
If it makes a difference, it appears my 2000-P roll is one of these bank issued ones, without the mintmark on the wrapper. All the rest of the wrappers have the mintmark on them.
It need not be a huge premium- just enough to cover face value plus maybe ten bucks for a Priority Mail Flat Rate box and insurance, plus a few dollars to put in my pocket.
You and I can haggle over that last part, about how many dollars to put in my pocket.
I don't think the plastic trays would fit into a small Flat Rate box, so if you want those, a different shipping option will be necessary. I believe the rolls themselves will fit. (Will try that in a moment.)
(Text below is mostly copied from my US Coin Forum post)
I was at my credit union today. I'd been thinking of doing a scavenger hunt for my daughter's birthday, involving some dollar coins and halves, if I could find them. I asked the teller if they had any. She said no halves. They seldom have those, but I did hit a nice lick and score three or four rolls of solid 40% Kennedies several years back, when bullion was much lower.
The teller said she did have dollar coins, but they were Sacagaweas. For some reason, though she said they were Sackies, my brain thought they were Suzies. I said, "yeah, let me see those- they're obsolete, now".
So she brought 'em out. Four trays containing eighteen rolls of "golden" dollars.
Then she said, "yeah, a member was going to buy a new house and needed money, so he cashed in all kinds of sets of coins".
At the word "sets", my antennae went up a bit.
Sure enough, it would appear that this sack o' Sacs is in fact a roll set. I picked up a few rolls and saw some of those later dates like 2007 and 2008 that one never sees in circulation around here. Kind of cool.
But this put me in a bit of a pickle because buying the whole set (plus some additional rolls of Prez bucks and Native Americans) required me to dip into my savings deeper than expected.
Still, at face value, I figured, I could always just redeposit 'em if I had to.
I'm almost certain this is indeed a roll set like the teller said it was. Some of the rolls have both end pieces with reverse-out, but there are nine rolls each from Philadelphia and Denver, and no duplication in the visible dates. They're still in US Mint wrappers.
P-MINTS
- (1 roll ea.) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008(2 rolls) with "P" wrappers but end coins showing only reverses
- (1 roll ea.) 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007(4 rolls) with "D" wrappers but end coins showing only reverses
Apparently there were Statehood quarter and nickel sets also turned in that I missed out on.
Oh- one thing- somebody has just educated me on these, since I'm woefully out of touch on modern coins, being mostly into ancients these days.
I'm told the yellow-wrapped Sacs were available at banks back in 2000, without the mintmark on the wrapper, while the Mint sold their wrapped rolls for $35.95 with mintmark printed on the wrapper. The 2002-2008's were only available from the mint at a premium, which I would guess accounts for why I've never really seen those in circulation.
If it makes a difference, it appears my 2000-P roll is one of these bank issued ones, without the mintmark on the wrapper. All the rest of the wrappers have the mintmark on them.
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