2014 half dollar

[BuffaloBoy]

I found this today
Has anybody else found one yet?

 

[BuffaloBoy]

update: I did another half dollar box yesterday and found 4 more 2014, 3 from Denver, 1 from philly.
Boxes have been terrible lately otherwise...

 

[NHBandit]

For this many to be showing up is it possible the mint is releasing them for circulation ? Guys here finding multiples dosn't seem like collectors paying the premium and then dumping them. Why would they do that ?

 

[maine_Jim]

Dealers buy the bags and rolls and pull out the best ones to either submit to PCGS or other grading companies. They will sell the next best as raw coins for a small profit usually in a P & D set them dump the lower grades at face value. You do this long enough you will get boxes that can have 30 or 40 NIFC in them.

Maine_Jim

 

[TheMastermind]

Cool! I haven't seen any 2014 halves yet.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Great!!!

 

[iontyre]

I'm hoping I'll see a few of the earlier NIFC dates in the box of halves I ordered this week... are the 2002 - 2011 ones showing up with the same frequency as the 2014's?

 

[Iamrussell]

I'm hoping I'll see a few of the earlier NIFC dates in the box of halves I ordered this week... are the 2002 - 2011 ones showing up with the same frequency as the 2014's?

Depends on your area- I havent seen any 2014 yet havent even seen 2013 yet in my area (unless they are being pulled by the other hunters in my area)

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just keep stacking, just keep stacking, stacking stacking stacking

 

[trappered]

i have asked banks for them they alway tell me they do not have any,almost never see them anymore.

 

[bottlecap]

Dealers buy the bags and rolls and pull out the best ones to either submit to PCGS or other grading companies. They will sell the next best as raw coins for a small profit usually in a P & D set them dump the lower grades at face value. You do this long enough you will get boxes that can have 30 or 40 NIFC in them.

Maine_Jim

Can you explain the dealers sending coins to PCGS? Why do they do that? Thanks.

 

[enamel7]

Because a highly graded coin carries a higher premium than a regular coin from circulation.

 

[Rascal]

I hope you won't be too upset if I venture to say I am officially jealous.

Rascal

 

[iontyre]

Because a highly graded coin carries a higher premium than a regular coin from circulation.

I don't trust those grading services anymore. I submitted a 1865 two cent piece with sharper detail and clean surfaces than any I had seen online graded MS-63 to MS-65. They sent it back to me "Genuine - Questionable color; uncirculated details". Toned maybe, and I've seen some similar toned pieces with out questionable color noted by PCGS. But it wasn't cleaned and even if they did question it, they could have offered an MS equivalent at least to help with future value. I felt shafted.

I won't even buy slabbed coins usually, I think the whole thing is a racket, and they have 'preferred customers' who get generous grading.

 

[baddbluff]

I don't trust those grading services anymore. I submitted a 1865 two cent piece with sharper detail and clean surfaces than any I had seen online graded MS-63 to MS-65. They sent it back to me "Genuine - Questionable color; uncirculated details". Toned maybe, and I've seen some similar toned pieces with out questionable color noted by PCGS. But it wasn't cleaned and even if they did question it, they could have offered an MS equivalent at least to help with future value. I felt shafted.

I won't even buy slabbed coins usually, I think the whole thing is a racket, and they have 'preferred customers' who get generous grading.

^ This doesn't happen. That would render their "3rd party" status null and void, and no one would send coins to them anymore. They grade millions of coins a year. "Hooking up" a dealer or two is not worth it. They are only drops in the bucket. Not worth damaging their reputation. The graders have no idea whose coins they are looking at (I've talked to some that worked for pcgs).

I've had a coin or two come back that I thought were fine, but later realized they were right - the experts - and I had a lot to learn about coins & grading still.

It's to their better good (and the coin industry as a whole) to error on the side of caution with questionable coins rather than give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think for the most part they get it right. If you still think you're right, send it to NGC & see.

 

[Alchemist]

This were the only keepers in the box.


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gee, are those scratched up already or is it just a bad photo? You would think a 2014 this early in the year would look near flawless.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

they were scratched up, I would imagine they came from a $100 bag of them (loose). the mint doesn't seem to make the quality coins they made in the past...

gee, are those scratched up already or is it just a bad photo? You would think a 2014 this early in the year would look near flawless.

 

[50cent]

gee, are those scratched up already or is it just a bad photo? You would think a 2014 this early in the year would look near flawless.

Mint employee taking his anger out that he didn't get the minimum wage hike that are applied to most government employees. Most as in excluding mint employees! So it's $7.25 an hour for you, clad polisher!