scyther wrote:neilgin1 wrote:i got a whole $100 FV box of nickels direct from the mint, 2009's....2,000 of them, all uncirc's, sitting in a safe full of desicant packs.
sell them?...i dont know. never occured to me..i KNOW what they are, the numbers, 2009 was a very stange year, kind of like 1955.
Nice... what mint?
they gotta be Philly.....here's what i remember doing, this was a brick i picked up down in Chicago from JP....and y'know the holes?...i was looking at the thing, and they're all shiny. i NEVER crack a box, and i had just heard that 09's were low mintage....open the box, took out five rolls from different parts, gently pulled the paper off, took five out, all 2009's....i do NOT remember seeing a D....or P, which would indicate Philly........i did this with all five rolls, five coins off the top, same thing, every roll, then i carefully put em back, a little tape to button it up....i know it was five rolls and five coins, but every one of them 09's?....and all the others look the same, so........i loathe this word, "assume"...i can assume, its a box of 09'-P's that found its way to that city......and you know why i stack brick's of nicks, right?.......if we Cyprus, or the power goes off, THATS my way of holding frns...instead of paper money, those $2 rolls are "cash" for some sort of emergency.
Now i know, that i could start selling obw's.....and i just read two minutes ago, that some guy sold a pair of obw uncirc's for $139 EACH....(lol...oh man!)...but here's the deal....my boy, 17, i'm thinking of him...whatever happens, the mint number's will keep, and years from now....he knows the stack, why its there...its HIS...i'd much rather have HIM be able to sell 45 2009-P obws in 20??...same thing with the Ag stack...barring some nightmare collapse...i'm good to go, (Thank You Lord!)....thats for him, his inheritance, plus the land and ranch, everything...i'm not selling Ag, and the lad KNOWS coins, silver, etc...so he's not a dunce...you got kids?...you know the drill...i want that precious lad set up good for the future, whatever that future may be...i dont want him without me, being vulnerable...like i got left. so there it is...not bad. i'm going to still keep stacking bricks, until they debase. n.