If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Anybody Bought Real "Unsearched" Wheaties? Alan, Anybody?
MIckey wrote:
I would like to buy some bulk unsearched wheats for our YN "Young Numismatic" programs at our club. Have any of you ever bought any bulk wheaties from a seller that you felt like were really "unsearched?" I bought a couple of half pound packages as a raw "newbie" when I was "Collecting Everything". What I bought was pretty much all 50's and a few 40s. All were no better than VG, most just G . Thanks in advance. I don't think that there is such a thing. The wheaties may be unsearched by the current seller but I'm sure that a previous owner or ownerS had searched through them many times over! -- Jason Craton ---- CONECA N-3407 --- WINS #5 --------------------------- Interested in error coins? http://www.error-coins.com - A work in progress (lack of progress really). |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
I tend to agree, at least insofar as date/mm and gross errors are concerned. But I'd like to make two points. 1. It depends on what you are looking for. The Cherrypicker's Guide sells well for a reason. Variety is the spice of life! When I first came to the newsgroup many people told me that searching currently circulating rolls was a waste...modern mint figures are enormous, everything worth finding has been found, blah blah blah. I've found silver nickels, an Indian Head, steel cents, about 100 wheat cents, BU rolls that are 40+ years old, cuds, countermarks, octagonal cents, foreign coins, 1960 small dates, silver dimes, diebreaks, struckthroughs, and a Lincoln Type 2 Reverse from each of the acknowledged years, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Lots of this stuff interests no one but myself, some of it is neat, some has value. Better yet, I'm learning with each roll and growing in the hobby! My ability to grade is improved, and I've noticed things, like the fins on the 1973-D cents that have increased my enjoyment. Very true! I have yet to get into varieties much. I have been able to cherry a few but it has always been by accident. If I set out to search all of my wheaties for varieties, I'd go NUTZZ! How long to you think it would take to scope 15K or so lincolns with a loupe? -- Jason Craton ---- CONECA N-3407 --- WINS #5 --------------------------- Interested in error coins? http://www.error-coins.com - A work in progress (lack of progress really). |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Craton wrote:
I tend to agree, at least insofar as date/mm and gross errors are concerned. But I'd like to make two points. 1. It depends on what you are looking for. The Cherrypicker's Guide sells well for a reason. Variety is the spice of life! When I first came to the newsgroup many people told me that searching currently circulating rolls was a waste...modern mint figures are enormous, everything worth finding has been found, blah blah blah. I've found silver nickels, an Indian Head, steel cents, about 100 wheat cents, BU rolls that are 40+ years old, cuds, countermarks, octagonal cents, foreign coins, 1960 small dates, silver dimes, diebreaks, struckthroughs, and a Lincoln Type 2 Reverse from each of the acknowledged years, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Lots of this stuff interests no one but myself, some of it is neat, some has value. Better yet, I'm learning with each roll and growing in the hobby! My ability to grade is improved, and I've noticed things, like the fins on the 1973-D cents that have increased my enjoyment. Very true! I have yet to get into varieties much. I have been able to cherry a few but it has always been by accident. If I set out to search all of my wheaties for varieties, I'd go NUTZZ! How long to you think it would take to scope 15K or so lincolns with a loupe? Well, I think I'm cooking when I can do $3.50 a day...that's 7 rolls. It takes me an average of three days to do $5, but it's an on-the-fly deal. ;-) For instance, today its raining so I can stop by the 'grading table' more frequently. If my methods (such as they are) were applied to your hoard (massive as it is) I should be able to mine that vein in 43 days. ;-) Alan 'with a Visine drip' |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
The obvious question is:
If they're really unsearched, how do you know they're wheaties and no Memorial-backed cents? Barry On 28 Jul 2003 11:42:18 -0700, (MIckey) wrote: I would like to buy some bulk unsearched wheats for our YN "Young Numismatic" programs at our club. Have any of you ever bought any bulk wheaties from a seller that you felt like were really "unsearched?" I bought a couple of half pound packages as a raw "newbie" when I was "Collecting Everything". What I bought was pretty much all 50's and a few 40s. All were no better than VG, most just G . Thanks in advance. -- Note - Remove the X from my e-mail address for direct replies |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Have I bought a fake? | Mikey | Autographs | 5 | December 7th 04 06:52 PM |
The real Satuday, 4/10/04! | Joe | Autographs | 0 | April 10th 04 04:39 PM |
SuCCeSSeS - TTM / BOUGHT | Todd F. | Autographs | 0 | February 10th 04 09:17 AM |
More ST Cards with 1 cent opening bids :) | Lynne Stewart | Cards:- non-sport | 0 | February 3rd 04 09:29 PM |
the REAL FREAKFIELD says: | Freakfield | 8 Track Tapes | 0 | August 12th 03 05:37 AM |