Generic_Lad
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- Jul 23, 2010
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Keep your eye on the magnet for possible collection dumps. For example, this week I found 2 highly polished, low grade, 1943 pennies (1 1943-P the other a 1943-D) on the magnet. Now, steel pennies are far from being rare or unusual but the fact that they were polished and had a P and D mint made me think that they came from a low-end collection set such as this one:
So I ask if there were any nickel bags that filled recently (most of the sets had at least 1 if not more war nickels) and was told that yes, one filled about 20 minutes ago and I could buy it
Total results of the bag:
12 war nickels (most highly polished like the steel pennies)
1 buffalo - 1938-D
1 Romanian coin
(Oddly enough, no Canadian)
While this is hardly a "dream score" it does provide enough evidence to show that you can use the magnet and steel pennies (or large amounts of foreign coins) to indicate a collection dump and therefore you can get better than average (usually my average is 1-2 war nickels per $100 face and 1 buffalo every $250 face) scores
So I ask if there were any nickel bags that filled recently (most of the sets had at least 1 if not more war nickels) and was told that yes, one filled about 20 minutes ago and I could buy it
Total results of the bag:
12 war nickels (most highly polished like the steel pennies)
1 buffalo - 1938-D
1 Romanian coin
(Oddly enough, no Canadian)
While this is hardly a "dream score" it does provide enough evidence to show that you can use the magnet and steel pennies (or large amounts of foreign coins) to indicate a collection dump and therefore you can get better than average (usually my average is 1-2 war nickels per $100 face and 1 buffalo every $250 face) scores
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