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Nice score today at an estate sale

WMClarkWMClark Member Posts: 821 ✭
edited October 2018 in General Discussion
Driving along I spotted an estate sale this afternoon. I don't usually stop at these things but thought what the heck. They had a 30 cal ammo can about 1/4 full of old coins. They were busy closing up and I ask the price. They tell me 550.00. I poked around in it for a few minutes and said it's a deal.

I went home and went through it all. I ended up with 16 Morgan dollars. A mix of 116 Franklin and walking liberty halves. 179 Mercury dimes, and 92 pre '64 Washington quarters, and a few hundred wheat pennies. I found a silver calculator online and It works out to about 85.5 ounces of silver. By my math the price works out to somewhere around $6.60 an ounce.
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  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's at Melt.

    Now you have to go through every one of them to see if you have anything special!
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just going off the melt value, that is about $1,220. You did good. As said, unless they are terribly worn, they will have a collector's value greater than melt.
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  • WMClarkWMClark Member Posts: 821 ✭
    edited November -1
    Talking to my brother he has a couple of coin books and wants to check them out to see if anything good might be in there. I'm feeling darn lucky with it as it is.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fortune favors the bold!
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Went to an estate sale several years ago, and bought a beer flat full of "old gun parts" for $10. Seems the old fellow favored Winchesters and Colt single actions. There were 8 original Mod 94 buckhorn rear sights with elevators, 6 oak shotgun plugs marked "Winchester", 3 sets of Colt SA grips with the screws, several SA hammers and triggers, and about 100 plug screws of various sizes in a prescription bottle, along with probably 5-6 lbs of misc. stuff. Needless to say, I made a few bucks on that deal.
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  • Bubba Jr.Bubba Jr. Member Posts: 8,299 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mike just accept it like it is a pot of gold. It's a gift from the heart. [:)]
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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Bubba Jr.
    Mike just accept it like it is a pot of gold. It's a gift from the heart. [:)]



    Well said Sir.

    They obviously are smitten with you Mike. You've got them bamboozled.

    (That's my Big Word for the day.) Your welcome. [:D]

    -Ken-







    Oh Yeah. Nice score WMCLARK.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 16,887 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's a heck of a deal!! Good score, if only I had the nuts to stop in one,,but after a few years of doing so, seemed a waste of time.
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  • WMClarkWMClark Member Posts: 821 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Grasshopper
    That's a heck of a deal!! Good score, if only I had the nuts to stop in one,,but after a few years of doing so, seemed a waste of time.


    That's been the same expericence with me. I guess it was meant to be because I usually drive right by them. Something inside me told me I need to stop.

    My brother will be stopping by Friday night to see if there is anything that might rare.
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