I sold all 249 non-privies that I got on eBay for an average net of about $1.70 each.
Nice! My point not a huge return based on your time, effort, motivation, fees, logistics, etc vs the mints cost basis on what, under .20 per dollar produced and the machines are running anyway....
I get that its a labor of love and you enjoy the chase, numismatists come in all shapes.
Well, I wouldn't have done it for just the 20 cents. LOL. But I got unlucky and only got one privy. But I sold the privy for $125, almost instantly. So, that's a net profit of about $165, despite getting unlucky. I sold all the privies in 36 hours with my discount pricing. You can (currently) get a net $2.50 if you want to push the price.
Believe me, it's not exactly a labor of love. It was more of a gamble. But it was a gamble with little risk. Even if I just spent them, I'd only be out about $150. And by selling them singly, my lottery ticket was a guaranteed winner with only a couple hours of packing and shipping as the penalty.
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I sold all 249 non-privies that I got on eBay for an average net of about $1.70 each.
Nice! My point not a huge return based on your time, effort, motivation, fees, logistics, etc vs the mints cost basis on what, under .20 per dollar produced and the machines are running anyway....
I get that its a labor of love and you enjoy the chase, numismatists come in all shapes.
Well, I wouldn't have done it for just the 20 cents. LOL. But I got unlucky and only got one privy. But I sold the privy for $125, almost instantly. So, that's a net profit of about $165, despite getting unlucky. I sold all the privies in 36 hours with my discount pricing. You can (currently) get a net $2.50 if you want to push the price.
Believe me, it's not exactly a labor of love. It was more of a gamble. But it was a gamble with little risk. Even if I just spent them, I'd only be out about $150. And by selling them singly, my lottery ticket was a guaranteed winner with only a couple hours of packing and shipping as the penalty.
Don't forget the value of potential future business if there were customers purchasing from you for the first time. There's got to be one (if not more) repeat new customer that will buy from you again...
I sold all 249 non-privies that I got on eBay for an average net of about $1.70 each.
Nice! My point not a huge return based on your time, effort, motivation, fees, logistics, etc vs the mints cost basis on what, under .20 per dollar produced and the machines are running anyway....
I get that its a labor of love and you enjoy the chase, numismatists come in all shapes.
Well, I wouldn't have done it for just the 20 cents. LOL. But I got unlucky and only got one privy. But I sold the privy for $125, almost instantly. So, that's a net profit of about $165, despite getting unlucky. I sold all the privies in 36 hours with my discount pricing. You can (currently) get a net $2.50 if you want to push the price.
Believe me, it's not exactly a labor of love. It was more of a gamble. But it was a gamble with little risk. Even if I just spent them, I'd only be out about $150. And by selling them singly, my lottery ticket was a guaranteed winner with only a couple hours of packing and shipping as the penalty.
Don't forget the value of potential future business if there were customers purchasing from you for the first time. There's got to be one (if not more) repeat new customer that will buy from you again...
This is true. Although the group is not that big. A number of people who bought the Trump coins from me "found me" by having bought the 2026 Uncirculated sets from me. I've actually had a lot of repeat business form those.
But, I'm not sure I would recommend buying the Trump $ bags at $150 each to try and net $2 to $2.50 each. It ended up being 70 "packages" that I had to ship over the last two days. LOL. Fortunately, I'm sort of set up to handle these volumes so I have sufficient envelopes and corrugated mailers on hand that I buy in bulk. It could be messier if you've never tried it before.
But...it was what it was. I got unlucky on the privies, so I made lemonade out of the lemons.
I may have to sell a few Mint set coins due to the issues with my last group of Mint sets. So, hopefully some of these new "customers" want a SemiQ dime or half dollar. But, maybe I'll put that story on the proper thread.
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I also found about 20 coins with a slight but noticeable die rotation. Probably too minor to matter, but I figure any error on these might be interesting.
@rockshow13 said:
I ordered the bags on day one at 12:27 and they have been on backorder ever since. I have not received my bags. Why are they shipping day two backorders before day one? Or are they… Is that what it seems like?
I have two batches of bags on backorder. One batch just before and one batch just after your time. No movement towards shipping that I can see.
@JBK said:
Backorder box number one showed up today.
>
NINE privies (sorry for the bad photos).
I also found about 20 coins with a slight but noticeable die rotation. Probably too minor to matter, but I figure any error on these might be interesting.
Nine privies in a single 100-count bag?
If that is correct, the concerns from earlier, regarding a shortage for backordered customers seem to be unfounded, even if the current data points are statistically insignificant.
I Just opened my backordered $100 bag with 9-1-26 date on the box and got completely skunked. Also got skunked on the roll I bought that was delivered a week or so ago.
Back when the privy deal was announced I calculated that a little under 3% of the coins in the rolls and bags should be privies, but that was obviously an average. I was hoping for a better mix but getting a perfect distribution of privies among all the coins was unlikely.
But 39, or 16 as reported once in this thread, or even my 9 is a bit extreme.
My second bag arrives today. We'll see how it goes.
@JBK said:
Backorder box number one showed up today.
>
NINE privies (sorry for the bad photos).
I also found about 20 coins with a slight but noticeable die rotation. Probably too minor to matter, but I figure any error on these might be interesting.
Nine privies in a single 100-count bag?
If that is correct, the concerns from earlier, regarding a shortage for backordered customers seem to be unfounded, even if the current data points are statistically insignificant.
Correct. As long as there are any privies, and there are, it's all good.
These boxes seem to be very much as hit or miss as any of the others. Which indicates that the Mint did, indeed, premix all of the privies into all of the coins prior to packaging, or they held back an appropriate number of privies for later mixing.
@JBK said:
Back when the privy deal was announced I calculated that a little under 3% of the coins in the rolls and bags should be privies, but that was obviously an average. I was hoping for a better mix but getting a perfect distribution of privies among all the coins was unlikely.
But 39, or 16 as reported once in this thread, or even my 9 is a bit extreme.
My second bag arrives today. We'll see how it goes.
If I was part of a coin group I would recommend combining all of the bags and distributing any privies found to even things out. Say 10 people in the group, 20 bags total. Have a pizza party and open all 20 bags and split the privies evenly...
If you didn't order this item, and follow your orders, I don't know how you would know. I appreciate your knowledge and have resisted putting you on ignore because of that, but sadly that knowledge and experience is not worth the condescending, know it all comments.> @JBK said:
Backorder box number one showed up today.
NINE privies (sorry for the bad photos).
I also found about 20 coins with a slight but noticeable die rotation. Probably too minor to matter, but I figure any error on these might be interesting.
When you say backorder, were these bags that wrre backorder, as of 12:2 something from day one? The bags that were saying shipping date October 7? or are these bags that were processing, went to backorder, sometime later than that, and then processed and shipped?
@Survivor50 said:
If you didn't order this item, and follow your orders, I don't know how you would know. I appreciate your knowledge and have resisted putting you on ignore because of that, but sadly that knowledge and experience is not worth the condescending, know it all comments.> @JBK said:
Backorder box number one showed up today.
NINE privies (sorry for the bad photos).
I also found about 20 coins with a slight but noticeable die rotation. Probably too minor to matter, but I figure any error on these might be interesting.
When you say backorder, were these bags that wrre backorder, as of 12:2 something from day one? The bags that were saying shipping date October 7? or are these bags that were processing, went to backorder, sometime later than that, and then processed and shipped?
I don't know the exact times - one might have been at 12:15 or so, but the other was past 12:20 for sure.
I don't think they ever showed as processing but if they did, they went to backorder quickly.
I track on my phone and I don't think I get the estimated shipping date there.
I have two still on backorder from the first day, ordered after the initial waiting room lockout.
I feel a little badly posting these successes but I'm trying to give people with backorders a reason to be optimistic. Some people who received coins early got skunked, while some who got backorders found privies (sometimes lots of them).
So far, i don't see any disadvantage to receiving coins that were on backorder. (We'll see if I feel the same way when my other two eventually ship).
@JBK Nothing at all to feel bad about. Congrats to you, and all finding privies. I'm just trying to pin down if anyone has received bags, that got the notice they were on backorder status and an expected shipping date (October 7) before you even actually place the order, those are the backorder bags I'm curious about. I was told by a rep today, and I know they are not always reliable, that those orders haven't started to ship yet. I currently have bags in my greedy little hands, waiting to be searched, that went to backorder status after the initial sale, then later to processing, and shipped.
I just opened my four boxes of rolls. Two rolls are head/tail configuration. One roll is a tail/tail configuration. One roll is head/head privy configuration. So I'm not skunked
@Batman23 said:
I just opened my four boxes of rolls. Two rolls are head/tail configuration. One roll is a tail/tail configuration. One roll is head/head privy configuration. So I'm not skunked
@Batman23 said:
I just opened my four boxes of rolls. Two rolls are head/tail configuration. One roll is a tail/tail configuration. One roll is head/head privy configuration. So I'm not skunked
Two boxes dated 8/12 and two boxes dated 8/14.
I too had boxes from 8/12 and rcvd an Privy Ender on one of my rolls.
As @Survivor50 asked... Was your Head to Head roll Privy's on BOTH ends??
@Batman23 said:
I just opened my four boxes of rolls. Two rolls are head/tail configuration. One roll is a tail/tail configuration. One roll is head/head privy configuration. So I'm not skunked
@Batman23 said:
I just opened my four boxes of rolls. Two rolls are head/tail configuration. One roll is a tail/tail configuration. One roll is head/head privy configuration. So I'm not skunked
Two boxes dated 8/12 and two boxes dated 8/14.
I too had boxes from 8/12 and rcvd an Privy Ender on one of my rolls.
As @Survivor50 asked... Was your Head to Head roll Privy's on BOTH ends??
I wish I had a double privy ender! My end roller was also from a 8/12 box.
I just opened my two 8/14 rolls, only one Privy between them.
I just opened three rolls. I'll see if I save or later open one of the 8/12 rolls with the standard head/tail configuration.
Overall, the quality of the coins is what I would call MS63/64 quality. The reverse look awesome and don't seem to get beat up as bad as the obverse.
Of the three rolls, I found three privy coins. One from the two 8/14 rolls and two from the one 8/12 ender roll. I also put aside six coins that were better quality than the rest.. maybe MS65/MS66 quality. I would say that on average, the three privy coins had less bag marks than the non-privy coins.
@Batman23 said:
I just opened three rolls. I'll see if I save or later open one of the 8/12 rolls with the standard head/tail configuration.
Overall, the quality of the coins is what I would call MS63/64 quality. The reverse look awesome and don't seem to get beat up as bad as the obverse.
Of the three rolls, I found three privy coins. One from the two 8/14 rolls and two from the one 8/12 ender roll. I also put aside six coins that were better quality than the rest.. maybe MS65/MS66 quality. I would say that on average, the three privy coins had less bag marks than the non-privy coins.
I would like to have a Privy Dollar for my Type collection, but I am suspicious about OBW rolls being sold on ebay. Wouldn't the people rolling these dollars pick the privy dollars out before rolling them?
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@oih82w8 said:
I would like to have a Privy Dollar for my Type collection, but I am suspicious about OBW rolls being sold on ebay. Wouldn't the people rolling these dollars pick the privy dollars out before rolling them?
I've seen a lot of nonsensical listings on ebay. One seller seems to have bank wrapped rolls (not the ones the mint sold) and he is suggesting that there could be privies inside. But the mint made it clear that the privies are only in the bags and rolls sold on the mint's website.
@oih82w8 said:
I would like to have a Privy Dollar for my Type collection, but I am suspicious about OBW rolls being sold on ebay. Wouldn't the people rolling these dollars pick the privy dollars out before rolling them?
I would avoid those rolls. You are better off buying a privy on its own (and it looks like the prices are coming down, so if you wait a few more months, it should be even lower than now).
Wow! So an order placed today is processing now. But orders placed on Day One are still backordered. Please update us when you get it and let us know how many privies you found! Gratz and good luck.
Bags purchased day 1, backordered to Oct 7th, scheduled for delivery today. Thinking about how many of these sealed bags/rolls might survive into future and what they could possibly be worth
@Capgun said:
Bags purchased day 1, backordered to Oct 7th, scheduled for delivery today. Thinking about how many of these sealed bags/rolls might survive into future and what they could possibly be worth
I agree with you! I have decided to not open my rolls because I believe so many are being opened now.
Unless, I don't find any privies in my 2 bags! LOL....
@Capgun said:
Bags purchased day 1, backordered to Oct 7th, scheduled for delivery today. Thinking about how many of these sealed bags/rolls might survive into future and what they could possibly be worth
I was planning on keeping a bag or two, sealed, but someone mentioned on another thread, that they had opened a bag from some years ago, and that over the years something in the bag, had broken down, maybe chemically, and that the coins were ruined, coated with it.
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Feel the same way about the two rolls i have. I opened the bags and still just sitting on the rolls. I started to open one and than just stopped 🤷
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Well, I wouldn't have done it for just the 20 cents. LOL. But I got unlucky and only got one privy. But I sold the privy for $125, almost instantly. So, that's a net profit of about $165, despite getting unlucky. I sold all the privies in 36 hours with my discount pricing. You can (currently) get a net $2.50 if you want to push the price.
Believe me, it's not exactly a labor of love. It was more of a gamble. But it was a gamble with little risk. Even if I just spent them, I'd only be out about $150. And by selling them singly, my lottery ticket was a guaranteed winner with only a couple hours of packing and shipping as the penalty.
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Don't forget the value of potential future business if there were customers purchasing from you for the first time. There's got to be one (if not more) repeat new customer that will buy from you again...
This is true. Although the group is not that big. A number of people who bought the Trump coins from me "found me" by having bought the 2026 Uncirculated sets from me. I've actually had a lot of repeat business form those.
But, I'm not sure I would recommend buying the Trump $ bags at $150 each to try and net $2 to $2.50 each. It ended up being 70 "packages" that I had to ship over the last two days. LOL. Fortunately, I'm sort of set up to handle these volumes so I have sufficient envelopes and corrugated mailers on hand that I buy in bulk. It could be messier if you've never tried it before.
But...it was what it was. I got unlucky on the privies, so I made lemonade out of the lemons.
I may have to sell a few Mint set coins due to the issues with my last group of Mint sets. So, hopefully some of these new "customers" want a SemiQ dime or half dollar. But, maybe I'll put that story on the proper thread.
All comments reflect the opinion of the author, even when irrefutably accurate.
Backorder box number one showed up today.
NINE privies (sorry for the bad photos).
I also found about 20 coins with a slight but noticeable die rotation. Probably too minor to matter, but I figure any error on these might be interesting.
I have two batches of bags on backorder. One batch just before and one batch just after your time. No movement towards shipping that I can see.
xxx
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Nine privies in a single 100-count bag?
If that is correct, the concerns from earlier, regarding a shortage for backordered customers seem to be unfounded, even if the current data points are statistically insignificant.
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Aug 6th goodness !
Most privy I have seen claimed is..................
39 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am bagged up times two, no process happening, yet.............
Guess I'll keep the order for now
I Just opened my backordered $100 bag with 9-1-26 date on the box and got completely skunked. Also got skunked on the roll I bought that was delivered a week or so ago.
Back when the privy deal was announced I calculated that a little under 3% of the coins in the rolls and bags should be privies, but that was obviously an average. I was hoping for a better mix but getting a perfect distribution of privies among all the coins was unlikely.
But 39, or 16 as reported once in this thread, or even my 9 is a bit extreme.
My second bag arrives today. We'll see how it goes.
Correct. As long as there are any privies, and there are, it's all good.
These boxes seem to be very much as hit or miss as any of the others. Which indicates that the Mint did, indeed, premix all of the privies into all of the coins prior to packaging, or they held back an appropriate number of privies for later mixing.
If I was part of a coin group I would recommend combining all of the bags and distributing any privies found to even things out. Say 10 people in the group, 20 bags total. Have a pizza party and open all 20 bags and split the privies evenly...
What does that translate to by NGC/PCGS standards. From what I've seen, CACG tends to be lower on average than either of the other two.
Backorder bag number 2 was delivered today.
Five privies.
NGC is 1 to 2 points higher than PCGS, IMO, after looking at a lot of them.
You can almost guarantee a one point bump up with N vs P. And prices reflect this.
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Yes to the negative. I have documented that PCGS graded W quarters consistently sell for more than an NGC graded W quarter of the same grade.
Not sure if this is true for all US Coins as I don't collect them.
If you didn't order this item, and follow your orders, I don't know how you would know. I appreciate your knowledge and have resisted putting you on ignore because of that, but sadly that knowledge and experience is not worth the condescending, know it all comments.> @JBK said:
When you say backorder, were these bags that wrre backorder, as of 12:2 something from day one? The bags that were saying shipping date October 7? or are these bags that were processing, went to backorder, sometime later than that, and then processed and shipped?
I don't know the exact times - one might have been at 12:15 or so, but the other was past 12:20 for sure.
I don't think they ever showed as processing but if they did, they went to backorder quickly.
I track on my phone and I don't think I get the estimated shipping date there.
I have two still on backorder from the first day, ordered after the initial waiting room lockout.
I feel a little badly posting these successes but I'm trying to give people with backorders a reason to be optimistic. Some people who received coins early got skunked, while some who got backorders found privies (sometimes lots of them).
So far, i don't see any disadvantage to receiving coins that were on backorder. (We'll see if I feel the same way when my other two eventually ship).
@JBK Nothing at all to feel bad about. Congrats to you, and all finding privies. I'm just trying to pin down if anyone has received bags, that got the notice they were on backorder status and an expected shipping date (October 7) before you even actually place the order, those are the backorder bags I'm curious about. I was told by a rep today, and I know they are not always reliable, that those orders haven't started to ship yet. I currently have bags in my greedy little hands, waiting to be searched, that went to backorder status after the initial sale, then later to processing, and shipped.
Two bags still backordered from first day of sale.
I just opened my four boxes of rolls. Two rolls are head/tail configuration. One roll is a tail/tail configuration. One roll is head/head privy configuration. So I'm not skunked
Two boxes dated 8/12 and two boxes dated 8/14.
Nice. Head/head both privy?
Pop Report as of today, September 18, 2026
756 privies graded now.
First Strike is coming into the picture with 7 privy coins.
I too had boxes from 8/12 and rcvd an Privy Ender on one of my rolls.
As @Survivor50 asked... Was your Head to Head roll Privy's on BOTH ends??
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someone burned a lot of money on ms63 fdoi
I wish, but no. Just head normal/head privy.
I wish I had a double privy ender! My end roller was also from a 8/12 box.
I just opened my two 8/14 rolls, only one Privy between them.
I just opened three rolls. I'll see if I save or later open one of the 8/12 rolls with the standard head/tail configuration.
Overall, the quality of the coins is what I would call MS63/64 quality. The reverse look awesome and don't seem to get beat up as bad as the obverse.
Of the three rolls, I found three privy coins. One from the two 8/14 rolls and two from the one 8/12 ender roll. I also put aside six coins that were better quality than the rest.. maybe MS65/MS66 quality. I would say that on average, the three privy coins had less bag marks than the non-privy coins.
I've definitely noticed this, too.
Interesting ?
bag mark locations are random
Picked up a bag this morning, they didn't last long.
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The obverses of the coins in the rolls that I saw had many small splinter-shaped strikes-through.
The coins in the rolls I looked through had many small splinter shaped bag marks. I didn't find any with strike-throughs.
Good job. I wonder how many came available. Did you get a backorder until October 7 notice?
Not sure how many it was, but it was enough to last about 90 seconds in total. Word is that it was some bags AND rolls that popped up as “Add to Bag”
…in addition to the bag marks.
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Just checked and it's processing for now.
opened day 1 backorder bag I received earlier last week — 09:18:03 08-28-26 — 1 privy
Pop report as of this weekend.....September 20, 2026
Added 65's and 66's to the FDOI privies.
I would like to have a Privy Dollar for my Type collection, but I am suspicious about OBW rolls being sold on ebay. Wouldn't the people rolling these dollars pick the privy dollars out before rolling them?
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I've seen a lot of nonsensical listings on ebay. One seller seems to have bank wrapped rolls (not the ones the mint sold) and he is suggesting that there could be privies inside. But the mint made it clear that the privies are only in the bags and rolls sold on the mint's website.
I would avoid those rolls. You are better off buying a privy on its own (and it looks like the prices are coming down, so if you wait a few more months, it should be even lower than now).
I see one seller (not related to me) on eBay listing some at 85 plus shipping.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/820143370906
Wow! So an order placed today is processing now. But orders placed on Day One are still backordered. Please update us when you get it and let us know how many privies you found! Gratz and good luck.
Bags purchased day 1, backordered to Oct 7th, scheduled for delivery today. Thinking about how many of these sealed bags/rolls might survive into future and what they could possibly be worth
I agree with you! I have decided to not open my rolls because I believe so many are being opened now.
Unless, I don't find any privies in my 2 bags! LOL....
I was planning on keeping a bag or two, sealed, but someone mentioned on another thread, that they had opened a bag from some years ago, and that over the years something in the bag, had broken down, maybe chemically, and that the coins were ruined, coated with it.
...aaaand day 1 BO roll shipped out today
this will be the last of my day 1 BOs to arrive