Me and my NICKELS UPDATE

Shake-N-Bake · Dec 9, 2008

I did 3 boxes first thing this morning, dumped then by noon, went to another source bank that is now ordering bags... Also I hope it pans out but the vault manager assured me that she could get me unlimited supply of bags of large dollars. We will see :icon_sunny:

She asked their ordering company twice and they said they had huge amounts of large dollars... She ordered me two bags for Friday, before she even asked me if I wanted them, SHE KNEW!!! LOL!
Anyways the 3 boxes this morning produced 5 Silver "WAR" nickels. The bag I just skimmed through it and found 2 Silver "WAR" nickels so far.
Also traded 8 silver war nickels and a 1964 Half dollar today for a 1939D nickel to complete my set today. 8 silver nickels found at face value for a $10 nickel I thought was a good deal :icon_pirat:

8 x $0.05 = $0.40 + $0.50 = $0.90.

I included a picture for you kiddies to check out. I know alot of you guys like pictures.

GMan00001 · Dec 13, 2008

I have yet to find a 1973 and you find a whole bag?

Also the 1976 ones have two varieties, and the 1976 Philadelphia Variety 1 are considerably more rare as only 4 million were minted, easily the lowest mintage of any of the Ikes intended for circulation.

treasurefiend · Dec 14, 2008

LJ said:
Are you saying you can get a bag of 1000 solid date 1973 Ike's? If so, that is just amazing. I would definitely purchase that bag without hesitation. Keep us posted on this. Good luck.

Heck yea, buy all that you can!!!!

Immy · Dec 14, 2008

Jason my man, can we do a deal? I would definitely like to obtain one each 1973 & 1973-D Ike. PM me if you're interested. Go get that bag!!

maine_Jim · Dec 14, 2008

Put me down for a 73 and 73-d. I've searched a few hundred Ikes. Found proofs and silver but these two dates are scarce.

Maine_Jim

Shake-N-Bake · Dec 14, 2008

Sorry about not knowing the IKE's

I will be getting the bags on Monday. I was not aware of the raraties of the Ike's, like the 1973. I have only found about $30 worth in my short CRHing career. I thought they were just common coins that were not found everyday like 1972 - 2000 Kennedy halves. According to the bank manager she said they can get many, many bags of large daollars for me. I didn't want to tie up $2,000 on common Ike's thats why i didnt get them on friday.
I will let everyone know when i get them on Monday and I will figure out how to get them out to everyone that wants them.

Thank,
Jason

Mercury63 · Dec 14, 2008

Nice take. You got me thinking nickels again. I think I will pick up a box so I will have something to look forward to after work. I still need a war nickel for my CRH type set. By the way have any of you out there put together a type set exclusively from your CHR ? I am trying to do one set for CHR and a separate one for Metal Detecting. Mercury 63

Shake-N-Bake · Dec 15, 2008

HELLO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got the bag of IKE's today... The teller was shocked to see me back to pick them up. She informed me that one of the tellers bought a bag of them. But to my suprise they bought the 1976 bag. So I have a $1,000 sealed bag of 1973 CIRCULATED IKE"s. If they are not made to circulate that seems like an awful lot to have at one place? I talked to my coin dealer in town and told him I acquired $1,000 worth of 1973 Ike's, and now he wants to make me an offer on the group. I told him I wanted some for myself(i want to offer some to my CRHing buddies

). Not sure what the offer is He told me to call him back this afternoon. I haven't opened the bag yet but it looks like all Mint Mark less Ike's (P's). I will figure everything out this afternoon on what is going on with this bag.

Happy Hunting,
Jason

Immy · Dec 15, 2008

What a great way to spend an afternoon! Have fun going thru them, Jason.

Hope you can at least double or triple your money with that dealer. Good luck!

65gt350 · Dec 15, 2008

Jason,

Can you post a picture of the bag? Is it clear like the nickel bag or is it canvas?

Thanks,
65GT350

Scalper · Dec 15, 2008

Congrats Jason on a super score of Ikes ...lol a whole bag of '73s is awesome . I have a hard job to find any let alone ones were NIFCs .. kudos , Ed

Shake-N-Bake · Dec 15, 2008

65gt350 said:
Jason,

Can you post a picture of the bag? Is it clear like the nickel bag or is it canvas?

Thanks,
65GT350

I sure can I always post pics. I just have to wait for my daughter to come home from school with my camera, class was having a pajama party :icon_scratch:

It is a clear bag just like the nickels, all of my bags come from the same source.

About 5:00 Eastern time I wil have it posted.

Thanks,
Jason

Nick in NEPA · Dec 16, 2008

Hey Shake-n-Bake! That could possibly be one of your biggest CRH finds you'll ever make...why isn't it even listed under your finds totals? 'Bag of 1000 1973 Ikes' has a nice ring to it.

Narthoniel · Dec 16, 2008

Very nice score! I happened to be in a coin shop yesterday, and noticed that 1973 IKE's are many times the price of other dates. Nice haul!

Shake-N-Bake · Dec 16, 2008

Hello everyone,
The dealer offered me $3 each on the 1973 Ike's, he really wanted the sealed bag(i think he thought i was going to pull out BU"S) but i told him I wanted atleast 50 of them, i told him Just to grab them off the top for me so he did.. So I ended up selling $950 face worth of Ike's for $2,850. :icon_sunny:

I think I did pretty good. I have two more bags of large dollars coming in on Friday.

I hope to get some more good dates I will buy whatever they get in this time. Is there anything else with Ike's that are good ones. I thought all Ike's were junk except 1976S silvers. I guess I was wrong as I passed on this bag to begin with $:-\$ I will what I can do about getting some of these to you guys that wanted some. They are all P's, no mint marks. I will start PMing people who were interested in the next day or so.

Happy Hunting,
Jason

nyiangelo · Dec 16, 2008

good score.......Im speechless....

65gt350 · Dec 16, 2008

Jason,

With your luck you'll get a full bag of Type II 1972 Ikes next. Good job with the flip. How do the coins look. Can you post a closeup.

There are a bunch of varieties too. One of the easiest to find are peg legs. Just look at the R in LIBERTY. The bottom serif is not there.

65GT350