Todays searches 04-17-2007

[GMan00001]

Well, most of what I picked up today will have to wait until another day.

At the first bank, I picked up 2 - $50 bags of pennies, and a $1000 bag of dimes (the last bag of pennies seemed to have more pre-1941 pennies from this location and this is the first bag of dimes to fill up since, hoping someone had a big bunch of older coins that got cashed in).

Second bank - no bags available (new branch that doesn't run much coin yet)

Third bank - picked up my ordered 2 boxes of halves.

Fourth bank - picked up 2 - $50 bags of pennies and 1 - $100 bag of nickels

Fifth bank - picked up 1 - $50 bag of pennies and 1 - $200 bag of nickels

Last bank - Cashed in the last approx $150 in reject pennies from last week (found out my biggest canvas bag can hold about that much and still be held shut by a rubber band).

Probably take me all week to complete the searches:
2000 half dollars to search
10000 dimes to search
6000 nickels to search
25000 pennies to search

Just completed box 1 of the halves:
1 - 90% Kennedy (1964-D)
1 - 40% Kennedy (1968-D)
3 Post-2001 Kennedy (2003-D(2), 2005-D)

Need 4 more silver half dollars to cross the 500 threshold for the year, hoping the next box gets me there.

 

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[Mercury dude]

hello, I have too of them what do I look for in this penny, please help

jc

I was trying to figure out how much the 1992-D Close AM was worth. The only site I could find with any prices was the following PCGS link where they list the 1992-D Close AM Red-Brown in MS-60 as $2550.00.

http://www.pcgs.com/prices/frame.chtml?type=date&filename=lincoln_cent_mod

Anyone on here have any knowledge if that's right (or even close for that matter)? Let's just say my heart skipped a beat when I saw the numbers. Also from reading a few other posts it appears that the variety is rather rare, so hoping for the best.

FYI: Looked at 3,204 1992-D pennies in 2007 plus at least 1,929 in 2006 before finding this one.

Here are some pics:

 

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[GMan00001]

hello, I have too of them what do I look for in this penny, please help

jc

I assume you mean you have 2 of the 1992-D pennies and you want to know how to tell if they are the close AM variety.

Basically the difference is the space between the A and the M in AMERICA on the reverse. For most of the 1992 pennies there is a small gap between the A and the M, but for the close AM variety the A and the M are touching or really close to touching.

To see the difference get a pre-1993 penny and a post-1992 penny and place them both reverse side up and look under a magnifier at the spacing between the A and the M in AMERICA. You should notice a slight gap in the pre-1993 penny and no gap in the post-1992 penny.

I verified this with a 1989-D and a 1993-D in front of me.

The 1998, 1999, and 2000 pennies from Philadelphia also have a similar variety difference but in those cases it is reversed, the common penny is the close AM variety and the Wide AM is the rarer one. I have also heard of a 1992 from Philadelphia with the Close AM variety, but I can't confirm it.

I hope that helps.

 

[AFModell]

I guess you just payed for a couple more Ryedales. Good deal GMAN!