Nice stuff can still be found raw, just floating around.
keets
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We buy lots of Wheat Cents, paying .03 each or more for pre-40's if the customers sort them. I have been searching the last day through some we got last week, maybe a $50 bag total. Hadn't found much of anything with a Fine 1913-S as the best coin. Then just now I hit paydirt.....................a VF/XF 1909-S sans VDB. My heart really jumped when I first saw it and flipped it over. I think I would have fainted if it had the initials on the reverse!!!
Keep searching.
Al H.
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You're absolutely spot on! People have become so dependent upon holdered coins that they miss out on some excellent hunting.
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Bob
Nice find!
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Hunting for those coins is half the fun of collecting.
Sweet! Best I ever found was a 14-S, decent, but not a 09-S
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since I work in a shop I get to search way more Cents than I'd like to, but it fills the time when things are slow as has been the case lately. of all the key Lincolns I have never found an S-VDB or 14-D to date. the best find so far --- back in 2008 a found a 1912 Matte Proof that was in a tube of 1912's. it was nice 64BN but had a very faint scratch in the field ahead of Lincoln.
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Years ago, I spent four hours going through a friend's coins. Most where Wheaties from the 1940s. There was an 1865 Three Cent Nickel in F or VF tucked in with a roll of later date Mercs. The type coins were in bad shape. Corroded, cull, or just plain nasty, except for the odd Liberty Nickel or Barber Dime that was AG.
I swore I'd never do this again. I went through the last six coins, all IHCs. Later dates, one was VG, the others lower graded. The last one had a lot of crud on it, but had a full Liberty. It was in the best shape of any coin I saw that day. It was a 1908. I thought, "what the h***," flipped it over, and sure enough, saw an S mint mark below the wreath. You just never know. Most of the crud came off. It's probably a VF 30, if it would grade.
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I bought a 70,000 wheat penny deal years ago,most sorted by date in tubes. Ended up having to go through all of them because their was an AU-BU set mixed in. Dang near paid for the deal! Sans the 09-S,S VDB,14-D, and 31-S. All the other dates were there!
Nice find.
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
I see a lot of nice material turning up from time to time, "coming out of the woodwork" so to speak, as it were.
But the nice coins and good values get snapped up quickly at shops.
I posted this before by may be germane here.
Found these in circulated rolls from the bank last year.
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
As older collectors pass away I have seen tons of Raw PLs/DMPLs lately
After my Dad passed I was tasked with disposing of his accumulation, found a nice, fully red 1909-S in a 2x2... turned it over... no VDB.
Nice. How does that get into a roll?
Keets, I think I know exactly how you must have felt. A couple of years ago I found a box of junk that I saved from when I was a kid. Naturally there were lots of loose coins rattling around on the bottom of the box. I've been pulling coins out of circulation since I was a baby. Almost. Anyway, in that box there was a small brass box. Like a ring box. That little ring box had seven, eight, maybe ten Mercury dimes inside it. One of the dimes was a nice vf 1916. Could it be? I was so excited. Then I turned it over. Oh well. Collecting coins is a BLAST!!!!
I buy a majority of my stuff raw, so I'd tend to agree with your statement. Nice find!
I bought 50,000 wheat cents before the 100 year celebration. The coin dealer had been dumping all the non key Lincoln's in bags for 30 years. Originally he let all coins at go in the bag except 1909 s and 1909 s vdb. Paid face value for the coins. Heck of a windfall. The good old days. Also bout 40000 Lincoln memorial Inc cents. Rolls and rolls of 60 d large and small and tons more. All bought at face.
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Searching cents is fun.... a couple years ago while looking through one 'pile' of cents I had in an old moving box (yeah...moved all over the world and still have boxes I have not emptied), I found a blank planchet... still have rolls and jars of cents I need to sort through...Cheers, RickO
I almost feel guilty buying raw coins.
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I find there is a lot of good stuff in the semi wild or even captivity, but in the wrong cage.
I was searching the "treasure chest" at a coin show. It was the dealer's foreign junk coin box. Thousands of coins in it. IIRC, it was 25 cents each or 5 / $1.
I was looking for 1800's foreign to give away for Boy Scouts Coin Collecting Merit Badge.
Found a Barber quarter, then another, then another, then a Barber 1/2, and some seated liberty dimes, etc. Found a group of English Double Florins and 1/2 crowns from the late 1800's and early 1900's (about .4 to .6 ounces of silver each). I had a nice pile when I was done, including a bunch of what I was looking for. I do not recall how many there were, and I did not have time to dig to the bottom, but there was at least 70 coins in the pile, 50+ were silver, about 60% of those were pre 1900 US. Dealer looked at the pile, and said $10.
I told a foreign coin dealer who was set up there about the box. He had saved 1800's foreign for me before, and had helped me when I was putting together a binder that had 1 coin from every country in the world, and many countries that no longer existed, to show the Boy Scouts. I told him I had no idea on what other foreign that might be valuable, other than silver content, that might be in the box.
He went over there, and I saw him later with a large box of coins he had pulled. He thanked me, and gave me a Seated Liberty half that I had missed as a thanks.
nice find
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That is amazing.
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
I've put together nice sets of raw pieces that I've picked up while buying coin boards. I prefer not having to do so since I'm only interested in the board, but I have to admit I've found a few pieces that were individually worth more than the price I paid for the entire board/collection. Mint state Buffalo Nickels, Washington Quarters, and of course Lincoln Cents are often found.
nice pick up. that would bring a major smile for sure
I thought it excited me until I took it in to my boss. he was on the phone and I dropped it in his hand, date up. he was off the phone in an instant, smiled, looked it as he turned it over and uttered "Get the Hell outa here!!" no VDB but he was still happy