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Just bumped into my Cousin. He "flips" houses, AND....

ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
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He told me last week his team was re-doing a house in Pleasantville NJ and in the back of a closet found two shoeboxes full of pennies. Rolls. The bank wouldn't take them because some rolls were coming apart. He took them to the coinstar machine. $80.00 worth of pennies. He kept a few. Red Uncirculated. 1946, 1949 and 1950. The only ones he kept....he said they all looked "new"!

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  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭


    pretty cool.....


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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some brothers are just plain stupid.....I got one like that too!

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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,191 ✭✭✭✭
    Feeding BU rolls to a CoinStar?! image

    He should know better having you in the family. Or perhaps you just haven't taught him well enough... image
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  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    How sad
  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was just a cousin guys......
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  • crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    Ouch.

    Not everyone who knows me is aware that I collect coins, but my family sure does. Too bad he did't give you a holler first. Hopefully next time.


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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I keep wondering if there were rolls of 1955.
  • crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    And extended family as well.


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  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
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    El stupido grande !


    Those were all copper cents. Think of the value he threw away. image
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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    hmmm, this one says` 1914 and has a D below the date, hmm, its not shiny so, must not be worth anything, right?
    too bad there isn't an intelligent coin star that reads dates and kicks those out into a special return for the uninformed
    user....bwahahahaa , ya right. lol
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This guy makes so much money pennies are just "pennies".
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    well, that's the answer right there
    doesn't know, doesn't care.
    lol
    anyway, some collector someday will spot what, if anything, he dumped back into circulation and grin ear to ear.
  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭
    I would think most people who do not collect coins would tend to overvalue coins like this, not dismiss them into a Coinstar machine for .9¢ each.
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I keep wondering if there were rolls of 1955. >>



    There were, but they looked damaged as it was hard to read the year or letters on the front as they looked blurry. So, those were the first ones put in the coinstar machine.

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I asked the CEO of CoinStar once if I could be their numismatist and go through coins.

    Once he explained that the coins are moved in large bins by forklifts at Brinks, I lost all interest. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It was just a cousin guys...... >>



    Ex- cousin.

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  • LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would think most people who do not collect coins would tend to overvalue coins like this, not dismiss them into a Coinstar machine for .9¢ each. >>

    +1.

    He saw rolls and figured they weren't rare. IF there had only been 3-5 coins in the box, instead of rolls, I bet he would've had them examined more closely.

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