Whitman folder coins

14, not 44.

 

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Your profile says 44.

 

My dad made the account for me but put in his age and stuff on accident. And I'm too lazy to change it lol.

 

You are posting this in the wrong place but before you go be advised that every time I have sold FULL British Whitman coin folders on Ebay the winning bidder has been from the UK and told me to keep all the coins and ship the folders empty. If you look at the copyright on the ones you most likely have they were printed in the 1960s and they are at least fifty years old. Whitman has begun printing extension folders for canada. Maybe they will do the other countries too sometime. good luck.

 

FURTHER THOUGHTS - You could also tell folks that you would take $2 in wheats or a dollar face in pre-1964 silver. If you don't want the silver it is easy to trade for what you do want. Customers would save money if they paid in wheats but some folks are very literal in their thinking and would prefer to give you a dollar than give you two dollars. Their bragging to their friends about the idiot kid will gain you even more customers. . good luck

 

So, 14 going on 44...

 

What condition

 

Please Sir, for we the meek pray tell what is a "sniping tool"?

 

I've been fairly successful with CRH. I don't have the elusive ones but if you will pm me with what you need I maybe able to help a little?

 

There are many.

ebay sniping tool

 

I gave my son-in-law a complete set of wheat cents in a better than average, fancy folder set. In order to get it close to complete, I bought about a half-dozen Whitman folders—volumes 1 & 2. I think in all, they set me back less than $75 including shipping, and we got pretty darn close to getting him an almost complete set, with the really rare ones missing, of course. Since I have a coffee can half full of wheats, I set about to plug the holes in the volume 1s as best I could. Still looking for a nice 14-D, though.

This is a really excellent suggestion, @John Burgess as there really is no way one could acquire the fifty years worth of wheat cents otherwise.

 

I admire your dedication! I’ll offer my suggestion. My local dealer keeps a stack of these completed Whitman #2 books in his shop specifically for young collectors like yourself. The second Whitman in the cent series are all pretty common and available coins. I have seen young collectors come in and plunder through his books and plug all their holes quite cheaply....... See the smart coin shop owner wants to encourage young collectors because they will be his good customers in a few short years..... Check around and see if you have a coin shop nearby. I would bet you the shopkeeper will be more than happy to help you plug those holes much more cheaply than you would expect.

 

Yeah. I mean there's plenty of incomplete lincoln cent collections out there especially in varying levels of circulated that are pretty darn cheap to get the hole fillers out of the way. Seems coin shops when they buy someone's collection usually has to take them also. I'd say the common dates get anything for starters and upgrade after you've saved up for nice key dates, then upgrade the common dates as you go to as close to matching the level of those key dates you bought and you wind up with a nice collection at the end.

A lot of issues occur when someone aims too high on a set and can't afford a nice key to match, like doing BU commons but can't afford a BU 1909SVDB, or aim too low for the key dates, and get poor key dates to be cheaper and it holds the set back from being nice and uniform.
I've found going cheap on the Commons at first and saving up for the best key dates you can, waiting for the right key dates then upgrading the Commons later leads to a nice complete, closer matched set in the end that actually gets completed and looks good too.

 

Wow. I never knew something like this existed. Sounds kinda deceitful, but now I see why I've lost those auctions! HA! Live and learn. Thanks so much.

 

Think of it this way. In addition to keeping other bidders from knowing what you would be willing to pay for an item, a sniper also enables you to manage your list of watched items. Right now the sniper I use has 15 coins of a specific type and date set up. I can look at the list every morning to determine what others are doing, and which ones are likely to be over-bid. Those can be deleted.