Realcent.org

Base Metal & Precious Metals Forum

Skip to content

Sometimes you get lucky

This forum is for discussing hunting and collecting US and Canadian circulation Silver Bullion Coins, other types of minted bullion, and other types of precious and base metal investments other than Bullion Pennies and Nickels.

Please Note: These articles are to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.
Post a reply

Sometimes you get lucky

Postby doug » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:34 am

I went into one of my penny banks last Wednesday and teller said she had some large dollar coins. So for 13 dollars I got----look at the picture. 8-)


Doug
Attachments
ase2 001.jpg
ase2 001.jpg (111.11 KiB) Viewed 691 times
doug
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 553
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:09 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Neckro » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:37 am

I feel bad for whomever got these stolen from them.
User avatar
Neckro
Post Hoarder
 
Posts: 2789
Joined: Thu May 08, 2008 10:00 am
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby NHsorter » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:44 am

Neckro wrote:I feel bad for whomever got these stolen from them.
Well, they should have raised smarter kids :lol: Nice score Doug!
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” Benjamin Franklin
User avatar
NHsorter
Super Post Hoarder
 
Posts: 3302
Joined: Mon May 09, 2011 10:39 am
Location: Live Free or Die
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby creshka46 » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:53 am

wow. I'm speechless......
Pennies: $4200 - (0) indians - (5)steel - (1) George V Canadian
Nickels: $6500 - (62)war - (23)buf - (1)V nic - (4) key date jeff's
Dimes: $5000 - (24)roos - (2)merc - (2)AgCAN
Halves: $8000 - (7)'64 - (33)40% - (1)walker
User avatar
creshka46
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 724
Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:19 pm
Location: Spokane, WA
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby 68Camaro » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:03 pm

Geez - this is sick... I don't know who I'm more disappointed in - the person that dropped them off, or the teller that let them get away...
In the game of Woke, the goal posts can be moved at any moment, the penalties will apply retroactively and claims of fairness will always lose out to the perpetual right to claim offense.... Bret Stephens
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. George Orwell.
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand.
User avatar
68Camaro
Too Busy Posting to Hoard Anything Else
 
Posts: 8422
Joined: Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:12 am
Location: Disney World
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Saabman » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:11 pm

WOW!!!! Now that's what I call a score!!! WTG!!!!!
Cerca Trova!!!

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.
-Sid
User avatar
Saabman
Post Hoarder
 
Posts: 2282
Joined: Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:47 am
Location: State of Franklin
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby hirbonzig » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:39 pm

Nice silver score!! Makes me want to get out and ask every bank in town for large dollar coins.
“Someone’s gonna have to go back and get a sh*t load of dimes.”
hirbonzig
1000+ Penny Miser Member
 
Posts: 1502
Joined: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:00 pm
Location: A van down by the river
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Matt B » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:13 pm

I'll be hittin' bank up for a batch of those tomorrow!
User avatar
Matt B
Penny Pincher Member
 
Posts: 132
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2011 5:46 am
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby woodyh » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:16 pm

nice score
life is like a box of pennys , you never know what your gonna get
woodyh
Penny Collector Member
 
Posts: 337
Joined: Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:50 pm
Location: northeast georgia
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Robarons » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:24 pm

Always ask for the 'Big Dollars'- never call them ikes or Eisenhowers. Just play dumb and ask for 'big dollars'

You will be surprised at what you get. I got 2 peace dollars doing this. Remember it just looks like a big coin with a girl on it to them
Robarons
Post Hoarder
 
Posts: 2212
Joined: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:00 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby scyther » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:36 pm

Wow. I would expect silver dollars to show up occasionally, but ASEs? WTF? Makes me think I should ask if they have any nice $50 or $100 coins next time I go to the bank...
Last edited by scyther on Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
267,500 pennies and 186,000 nickels searched. Hand sorter.
10/13/18
User avatar
scyther
1000+ Penny Miser Member
 
Posts: 1391
Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:19 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby jacer333 » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:37 pm

Fantastic! Head back over there and see if they can order you more of these said "dollar coins" ;)
1909-S VDB Found 3/19/12. Wild IHC's found to date: 38
User avatar
jacer333
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 783
Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:19 am
Location: Nebraska
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby doug » Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:07 pm

I always ask for the large dollar coins. I take all they have and it usually makes them very happy to get rid of them.

When she asked if I wanted them I suspected they were different because this teller always sells me her Ikes, so when she looked them over she said they say one dollar on the coins. I was thinking peace or morgans but was amazed to liberty on them.

Oh, it was my birthday so I loved the present. :D


Doug
doug
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 553
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:09 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby RTPMarine » Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:17 pm

doug wrote:I always ask for the large dollar coins. I take all they have and it usually makes them very happy to get rid of them.

When she asked if I wanted them I suspected they were different because this teller always sells me her Ikes, so when she looked them over she said they say one dollar on the coins. I was thinking peace or morgans but was amazed to liberty on them.

Oh, it was my birthday so I loved the present. :D


Doug


Did she say anything about, or at least acknowledge, the "1 oz. Fine Silver"??
"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
User avatar
RTPMarine
Penny Pincher Member
 
Posts: 147
Joined: Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:13 pm
Location: NC
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Doctor Steuss » Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:27 pm

Gobsmacked.
"Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool." ~Eliot
User avatar
Doctor Steuss
1000+ Penny Miser Member
 
Posts: 1099
Joined: Wed May 18, 2011 10:09 am
Location: Las Vegas
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Morsecode » Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:39 pm

Ain't karma cool? :D

Everyday, people who know nothing about coins & pm's inherit coins & pm's. They bring them to the bank cause they're too mistrusting to go anywhere else. It almost never ends well for them, one way or the other.

I wasn't there to see it, but one of my smarter tellers told me a woman was frustrated at the Penny Arcade after it repeatedly rejected her 1/10 oz AGE's. She had a tube full. Hey, they do say $5 on them, right?

Now, he says he set her straight...but he sort've said it with a cheshire grin.
From hence ye beauties undeceived, know one false step is ne'er retrieved
and be with caution bold.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes and heedless hearts is lawful prize,
nor all that glistens gold.
- Thomas Gray, 1747
User avatar
Morsecode
Too Busy Posting to Hoard Anything Else
 
Posts: 4214
Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:04 pm
Location: Southern New England
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby bookshelf » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:58 pm

Awesome score!
Wanted: current Japanese YEN coins and bills
User avatar
bookshelf
Penny Pincher Member
 
Posts: 232
Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:34 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Sheba » Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:08 pm

Congratulations on a fantastic pickup!
Sheba

Now let's see ... where is that blasted cat! I'm hungry. woof, whine, drool, sniff ... 'here kitty, kitty, kitty, nice kitty. Where are you little kitty?
User avatar
Sheba
Penny Collector Member
 
Posts: 390
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:00 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby knibloe » Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:21 pm

Some times I get lucky too. However, I think we are talking about two different things, because I never get silver eagles.
knibloe
Post Hoarder
 
Posts: 2555
Joined: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:00 am
Location: Western, NY
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby doug » Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:25 pm

RTPMarine wrote:
doug wrote:I always ask for the large dollar coins. I take all they have and it usually makes them very happy to get rid of them.

When she asked if I wanted them I suspected they were different because this teller always sells me her Ikes, so when she looked them over she said they say one dollar on the coins. I was thinking peace or morgans but was amazed to liberty on them.

Oh, it was my birthday so I loved the present. :D


Doug


Did she say anything about, or at least acknowledge, the "1 oz. Fine Silver"??



Nope, just that they said one dollar and that with a 'not sure if she got ripped off tone'.

Doug
doug
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 553
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:09 pm
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby RTPMarine » Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:34 pm

doug wrote:
RTPMarine wrote:
doug wrote:I always ask for the large dollar coins. I take all they have and it usually makes them very happy to get rid of them.

When she asked if I wanted them I suspected they were different because this teller always sells me her Ikes, so when she looked them over she said they say one dollar on the coins. I was thinking peace or morgans but was amazed to liberty on them.

Oh, it was my birthday so I loved the present. :D


Doug


Did she say anything about, or at least acknowledge, the "1 oz. Fine Silver"??



Nope, just that they said one dollar and that with a 'not sure if she got ripped off tone'.

Doug



That makes it 10x better!! She was probably relieved when you took them! :lol: :lol:

Ask her a question about Jersey Shore or the Bachelorette, and she probably would have talked your ear off knowledgeably. It's not stupidity--it's ignorance!
"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
User avatar
RTPMarine
Penny Pincher Member
 
Posts: 147
Joined: Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:13 pm
Location: NC
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby OtusLotus » Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:44 pm

I thought I was the bomb-diggaty when I got 1 ASE for $1 at the bank... But this is truly AWESOME!
User avatar
OtusLotus
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 790
Joined: Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:21 pm
Location: Freehold, NJ
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby blackrabbit » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:26 pm

Wow! Buy that teller a pizza or something! Happy Birthday indeed!
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered....The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
-Thomas Jefferson
User avatar
blackrabbit
Post Hoarder
 
Posts: 2360
Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:00 pm
Location: Colorado
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Hawkeye » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:19 pm

Awesome.
Metal > Paper
User avatar
Hawkeye
Penny Hoarding Member
 
Posts: 954
Joined: Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:00 pm
Location: The Hawkeye State
Top

Re: Sometimes you get lucky

Postby Chief » Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:15 am

Wow! Awesome score!!! :D
User avatar
Chief
1000+ Penny Miser Member
 
Posts: 1656
Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:38 pm
Location: Nebraska
Top
Next
Post a reply

Return to Silver Bullion, Gold, & other Bullion Metals

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 111 guests

Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group