Grabbed some cent rolls as I hadn't done it in years and was considering loading up on cents boxes before they become unobtainium. 2nd roll in a 1906 popped out. I only found one Indian Head cent roll searching back when I started CRH'ing so I had to chuckle on the 2nd roll in this latest search. Crazy, nothing else from the rolls but a few wheats - so here it is. I saved a couple 2025's for the folder and moved back to looking for silver in the halves rolls.
@MaineJim said:
Grabbed some cent rolls as I hadn't done it in years and was considering loading up on cents boxes before they become unobtainium. 2nd roll in a 1906 popped out. I only found one Indian Head cent roll searching back when I started CRH'ing so I had to chuckle on the 2nd roll in this latest search. Crazy, nothing else from the rolls but a few wheats - so here it is. I saved a couple 2025's for the folder and moved back to looking for silver in the halves rolls.
Jim
Nice find! Those are very hard to come by. I have only found one per thirty or more boxes over several years searching.
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Picked up 143 sets at 6.59 per set. Easily 1/4 of retail price with the number of 1970/1976s included.
But a lot of these look too good to resale
Pics coming later...
@OAKSTAR said:
Anyone being denied boxes of cents from banks?
I'm still getting 2 -6 boxes every moth from my Credit Union. Hopefully that will continue. I have found just a few Philly cents and have gotten a whole bunch of Denver cents. We get our coins from Denver in the Memphis TN area. Still waiting to find OBW rolls of 2025 cents.
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@OAKSTAR said:
Anyone being denied boxes of cents from banks?
I'm still getting 2 -6 boxes every moth from my Credit Union. Hopefully that will continue. I have found just a few Philly cents and have gotten a whole bunch of Denver cents. We get our coins from Denver in the Memphis TN area. Still waiting to find OBW rolls of 2025 cents.
Interesting. Thanks Jon!
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@Coinscratch said:
Picked up 143 sets at 6.59 per set. Easily 1/4 of retail price with the number of 1970/1976s included.
But a lot of these look too good to resale
Pics coming later...
I miss those days when most coin shops had vast inventories of mint sets you could go through. You could always find some really nice ones- -Like you did.
I'm quite sure many of the best moderns can still be found in the sets. Just remember they were always one in a million.
@OAKSTAR I was told at my Credit Union that they can not order boxes of cents from Loomis any more. So I ordered 2 boxes of nickelsand 1 box of dimes. Now what do I do whith my 500 plux cent wrappers? 😠☹️🥺👎👎
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@JWP said: @OAKSTAR I was told at my Credit Union that they can not order boxes of cents from Loomis any more. So I ordered 2 boxes of nickelsand 1 box of dimes. Now what do I do whith my 500 plux cent wrappers? 😠☹️🥺👎👎
Save all those different cent wrappers, they could be worth more then the copper cents one day. 😉 👍
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@Coinscratch said:
Picked up 143 sets at 6.59 per set. Easily 1/4 of retail price with the number of 1970/1976s included.
But a lot of these look too good to resale
Pics coming later...
I miss those days when most coin shops had vast inventories of mint sets you could go through. You could always find some really nice ones- -Like you did.
I'm quite sure many of the best moderns can still be found in the sets. Just remember they were always one in a million.
It feels like one in a million. These looked really good compared to most. Well kept with the packs divided with the insert. Which inserts the notion these were good enough to keep but not good enough cut open.
So no home runs maybe squeak out 2 or 3 Ike’s in 66 and a couple Kennedys in 67. The bulk always gets a trip to eBay.
It feels like one in a million. These looked really good compared to most. Well kept with the packs divided with the insert. Which inserts the notion these were good enough to keep but not good enough cut open.
So no home runs maybe squeak out 2 or 3 Ike’s in 66 and a couple Kennedys in 67. The bulk always gets a trip to eBay.
In eBay's early days you could pick up unopened packages of most dates for bid. I don't see many unopened boxes except of late dates any longer.
It feels like one in a million. These looked really good compared to most. Well kept with the packs divided with the insert. Which inserts the notion these were good enough to keep but not good enough cut open.
So no home runs maybe squeak out 2 or 3 Ike’s in 66 and a couple Kennedys in 67. The bulk always gets a trip to eBay.
In eBay's early days you could pick up unopened packages of most dates for bid. I don't see many unopened boxes except of late dates any longer.
I missed those days! Nowadays you have to be looking at a lot everyday to weed through the all of the sellers while trying to discern between searched a 1000 times or a group from a large collection dump. Or just pot luck from a general seller. And basically don’t have time to shop.
I do need to find a couple more brick and mortar dealers like this one. Smart guy, focused on turnover so I just buy them all every couple of months and everybody’s happy.
It feels like one in a million. These looked really good compared to most. Well kept with the packs divided with the insert. Which inserts the notion these were good enough to keep but not good enough cut open.
So no home runs maybe squeak out 2 or 3 Ike’s in 66 and a couple Kennedys in 67. The bulk always gets a trip to eBay.
In eBay's early days you could pick up unopened packages of most dates for bid. I don't see many unopened boxes except of late dates any longer.
I missed those days! Nowadays you have to be looking at a lot everyday to weed through the all of the sellers while trying to discern between searched a 1000 times or a group from a large collection dump. Or just pot luck from a general seller. And basically don’t have time to shop.
I do need to find a couple more brick and mortar dealers like this one. Smart guy, focused on turnover so I just buy them all every couple of months and everybody’s happy.
Mint sets are funny creatures and there's nothing quite like them. Each is like an entire coin collection from different dates but almost no one buys or sells them for what they are. When they look at sets or even buy random sets most desire only one or two coins in the set. Dealers would go through 1000 1970 mint sets and cut out all the half dollars and almost all the small dates (they'd usually miss ones with a stronger motto) and just dump what was left. The same thing is going on today at ever smaller scales.
But this gets to what makes them so "funny". Due to their nature and the virtual absence of anyone buying them as complete collections there is a huge tendency for every set that gets checked to be destroyed. Sets still accumulate in dealer inventories and build up until they are destroyed often without ever being "checked" at all.
It is different now days with many hundreds of modern coin collectors and far lower mint set numbers increasing the odds that any given set has been checked but the same patterns still exist: Once a mint set is checked its time is just about up. To say it another way very few people are selling checked sets on eBay or wholesale. Most dealers checking sets will destroy them altogether frequently to properly check tarnished coins like the 1971 you have to clean them first. Now days there's enough demand for singles that nice rejects will be rolled up and sold but in the old days most rejects were put in the cash register or hauled to the bank.
There are some moderns that have been hunted down in mint sets because they are widely sought. If there are any original purchasers of 1970 mint sets there's a good chance that they were checked for the small date, for instance. This means the incidence of this coin is lower in almost all configurations. Up until the early '90's almost every group of these sets had about 10% sm dts. Frosted SMS were always very hard to find but they are far more difficult today. But then I seriously doubt it's much harder to find a nice MS-65 1971 quarter under the tarnish than it was in 1971 just as the '71-D/ D dime is no tougher.
I rarely get a chance to check sets any longer but most of the stuff that drove me to look are still there and even sets that have been through the wringer and the sieve still contain a few surprises.
It's not a coin roll find but I recently got a '10-S Lincoln in nice F condition found on the ground. It was a fright when I first saw it and I thought is was a bad cull so nearly ignored it but on closer examination it cleaned up nicely in olive oil. It's a "ghost VDB".
@OAKSTAR said:
Anyone being denied boxes of cents from banks?
Most of my banks simply can't order them any more.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
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Grabbed some cent rolls as I hadn't done it in years and was considering loading up on cents boxes before they become unobtainium. 2nd roll in a 1906 popped out. I only found one Indian Head cent roll searching back when I started CRH'ing so I had to chuckle on the 2nd roll in this latest search. Crazy, nothing else from the rolls but a few wheats - so here it is. I saved a couple 2025's for the folder and moved back to looking for silver in the halves rolls.
Jim
Nice find! Those are very hard to come by. I have only found one per thirty or more boxes over several years searching.
God bless all who believe in him. Do unto others what you expect to be done to you. Dubbed a "Committee Secret Agent" by @mr1931S on 7/23/24. Founding member of CU Anti-Troll League since 9/24/24.
Picked up 143 sets at 6.59 per set. Easily 1/4 of retail price with the number of 1970/1976s included.
But a lot of these look too good to resale
Pics coming later...
Here is one from the "tops" stack. Still culling...
I'm having trouble with the site not accepting jpegs.
Not even wasting time posting the reverses when half aren't even loading.
Those are all to be sold to me in the future, right?
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Yessir! The 72 won’t be cheap 🤣
Actually, it might be cheap there's a few scratches on the cheek that might hold it back.
I'll post results before the New Year. Should be anyway.
Anyone being denied boxes of cents from banks?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I'm still getting 2 -6 boxes every moth from my Credit Union. Hopefully that will continue. I have found just a few Philly cents and have gotten a whole bunch of Denver cents. We get our coins from Denver in the Memphis TN area. Still waiting to find OBW rolls of 2025 cents.
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Interesting. Thanks Jon!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I haven’t been asking, but I did drop three boxes at my bank and their eyes lit up. Said they were like gold.
Why do you think that is? Other customers asking for them?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I miss those days when most coin shops had vast inventories of mint sets you could go through. You could always find some really nice ones- -Like you did.
I'm quite sure many of the best moderns can still be found in the sets. Just remember they were always one in a million.
@OAKSTAR I was told at my Credit Union that they can not order boxes of cents from Loomis any more. So I ordered 2 boxes of nickelsand 1 box of dimes. Now what do I do whith my 500 plux cent wrappers? 😠☹️🥺👎👎
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Save all those different cent wrappers, they could be worth more then the copper cents one day. 😉 👍
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
No, just their knee jerk reaction to an imaginary problem. Not their fault but they have to pay for it.
It feels like one in a million. These looked really good compared to most. Well kept with the packs divided with the insert. Which inserts the notion these were good enough to keep but not good enough cut open.
So no home runs maybe squeak out 2 or 3 Ike’s in 66 and a couple Kennedys in 67. The bulk always gets a trip to eBay.
In eBay's early days you could pick up unopened packages of most dates for bid. I don't see many unopened boxes except of late dates any longer.
Of course unopened packages usually just means 5 ho hum sets instead of 1.
I missed those days! Nowadays you have to be looking at a lot everyday to weed through the all of the sellers while trying to discern between searched a 1000 times or a group from a large collection dump. Or just pot luck from a general seller. And basically don’t have time to shop.
I do need to find a couple more brick and mortar dealers like this one. Smart guy, focused on turnover so I just buy them all every couple of months and everybody’s happy.
Mint sets are funny creatures and there's nothing quite like them. Each is like an entire coin collection from different dates but almost no one buys or sells them for what they are. When they look at sets or even buy random sets most desire only one or two coins in the set. Dealers would go through 1000 1970 mint sets and cut out all the half dollars and almost all the small dates (they'd usually miss ones with a stronger motto) and just dump what was left. The same thing is going on today at ever smaller scales.
But this gets to what makes them so "funny". Due to their nature and the virtual absence of anyone buying them as complete collections there is a huge tendency for every set that gets checked to be destroyed. Sets still accumulate in dealer inventories and build up until they are destroyed often without ever being "checked" at all.
It is different now days with many hundreds of modern coin collectors and far lower mint set numbers increasing the odds that any given set has been checked but the same patterns still exist: Once a mint set is checked its time is just about up. To say it another way very few people are selling checked sets on eBay or wholesale. Most dealers checking sets will destroy them altogether frequently to properly check tarnished coins like the 1971 you have to clean them first. Now days there's enough demand for singles that nice rejects will be rolled up and sold but in the old days most rejects were put in the cash register or hauled to the bank.
There are some moderns that have been hunted down in mint sets because they are widely sought. If there are any original purchasers of 1970 mint sets there's a good chance that they were checked for the small date, for instance. This means the incidence of this coin is lower in almost all configurations. Up until the early '90's almost every group of these sets had about 10% sm dts. Frosted SMS were always very hard to find but they are far more difficult today. But then I seriously doubt it's much harder to find a nice MS-65 1971 quarter under the tarnish than it was in 1971 just as the '71-D/ D dime is no tougher.
I rarely get a chance to check sets any longer but most of the stuff that drove me to look are still there and even sets that have been through the wringer and the sieve still contain a few surprises.
It's not a coin roll find but I recently got a '10-S Lincoln in nice F condition found on the ground. It was a fright when I first saw it and I thought is was a bad cull so nearly ignored it but on closer examination it cleaned up nicely in olive oil. It's a "ghost VDB".
Most of my banks simply can't order them any more.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Thanks @Kurisu !
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
No boxes of cents when I asked, they would give me loose rolls up to 10$ when I asked.
Jim
Just picked up 2 - boxes of nickels yesterday. It looks like both boxes are all OBW 2025-D rolls.
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I searched a box of dimes and the Canadian dime and the 1964 silver Roosevelt was all I found. Silver is good too. 🙂
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