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maverick

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Man, I've come across a few of those that were nice and tossed them back out into the wild. Maybe I'll start keeeping them for our next garage sale, 1.00 a piece wouldn't be bad. Maverick.
 

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had a box with ~70 once, it had 3 gold enders lol.....have a bag of about 100 of them now, the ones in real nice shape, I throw the crappy ones back.....figure i can CL or Fleabay them at some point.
 

sack0silver

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where did you find a buyer? i got a few unopenned rolls of them in those us mint wrappers by year
 

jedi9

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I found a half the other night that is gold. I figured someone plated it. What is this?
 

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where did you find a buyer? i got a few unopenned rolls of them in those us mint wrappers by year
A coin shop i go to in the mall. They will sell them to the kids.
 

JobIII

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Nicely done TimZim! I see so many of them but I don't do anything with them. The issue I have with reselling these coins is how can I tell it's actually gold or not. I probably could go out and buy the gold test, but I'm not that motivated. The non-silver halfs seem to easily sell for around $2 on ebay. Perhaps it's time to tap this resource :)
 

sagittarius98

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I found a half the other night that is gold. I figured someone plated it. What is this?

People plated them with tiny amounts of gold, and then sold them for a higher price than face value.
 

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amazing you could sell them for that premium... which mall did you sell to? do they buy ikes?
 

JobIII

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I'm now motivated to try and pawn these coins to ebay bidders. I think I see maybe 1 plated coin for every 2 boxes or so.
 

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