by Recyclersteve » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:41 pm
A $100 box of (U.S.) nickels that was interesting and boring at the same time.
Whomever had the box before me has very similar tastes to me.
They go through the coins and return what they don’t want- rather than stacking the brick as an unopened box.
They kept any dimes.
They kept any foreign coins and tokens, notably any Canadian nickels.
They kept 2009’s.
They kept war nickels.
They kept buffalos, even dateless ones, but returned those after 2000.
They kept V-nickels.
They kept pre-64 Jeffs and returned all 15 of the 1964’s- ok minor difference, I keep pre-60’s instead of pre-64’s.
Good news for other other collector: they didn’t make any mistakes. I have seen enough times where a box would have 1 or 2 good dates. For instance, a tired collector without the best eyesight who proves they are human and mistakenly returns 1-2 good ones- I’ve especially noticed this with silver halves.
I could be wrong- just my opinion.
Even if this was a box of all Uncs., it wouldn’t have been as bad. I wouldn’t have wasted as much time. Oh well...
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