I'll ask again, bicentennial quarter's on ebay bringing 2x face???

Sad.

 

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Wow, I'm sorry to see people having been so grumpy on a Saturday night.

Looks like there were at least two snipes on this auction, driving the final price up above $86.

Sure, you can still find these in circulation -- but you'd be searching a long time to accumulate four rolls of them, especially in higher grades; lately, the ones I see in circulation are fairly well-worn for the most part.

As it happens, I got four taped rolls of Bicentennial quarters from a teller years ago during the latest silver spike. She was saving "old" coins for me, so I felt obligated to take them; at face value, at least I wasn't losing money. I opened one roll, and the coins were uniformly AU or higher. The rolls really look like they were filled and taped forty years ago. I couldn't bring myself to spend them or turn them in.

If there are people out there willing to pay 2x FV for rolls like this, I'll be happy to let mine go, too. If I do list them, I'll try to remember to post it in the For Sale/Auctions forum here, so people can return to this thread and make fun of me as well.

 

Coins are money. Money has value. Part of coin collecting is the value aspect of the coins.
It's just my personal opinion. What is wrong with you?

 

That's what I figured I'd do.
I pulled a few rolls from the 4000 I won on auction (just because they were AU )
In hind site I should have just put up the whole bag, BUT dang can't
Sit on everything.
I guess next time one of those auctions roll around I'll have to buy a few 1000 more for face and pass them on to a True Collector.

 

I save every '76 quarter I come across, in case a couple of rich brothers decide to buy them up and corner the market on them.

 

Stranger things have happened. I seem to remember reading an article from a guy who decided to buy up all the 1933-S Walkers he could find, in hopes of influencing the market for them.

 

Honestly, that would be easier than tracking down a literal billion quarters. Maybe cheaper too.

 

I like the bicentennial coins myself and can honestly say I thought of paying a tiny premium for a roll or two. I do find them if I put a 20 in the car wash change machine from time to time but very rarely.

 

It is on 4 rolls worth.

 

So

 

Let me expand the thought for you...

2x premium might not be much of a premium when talking about ONE coin, but it is quite the f'ing premium when buying 4 rolls worth and paying 2x premium for each and every coin in the 4 rolls.

 

2x premium is the exact same premium for 1 coin or 1 million coins, 2x.......

You guys need a hobby if people paying a minimal premium for what they want bothers you so much

 

So if the auction was for 1 million coins at 2x premium it would be the exact same magnitude blunder as buying 1 coin for 50 cents?

You need less hobby if your head is buried that far deep in something that the logic computes that way in your head.

 

Well Now, glad I could stir up some passionate topics.
What we all get out of this is save every and all AU or better bicentennial quarters.
Better odds then the lotto for a ROI.

Now I better go sort out the 2 rolls that I mixed in with the change jar (spare AAA water jug) headed for the coin star.
See you in a Week.

 

I am at least doing my part to corner the market. I been throwing bicentennial quarters in a box for years..... Now, all I have to do is wait......

 

The premium would be the same of 2x which really isn't much of a premium at all.

You don't get to decide what is a blunder and what isn't either. Those things sell all day long for more than 2x individually for nice ones.

We get it you don't think moderns should be collected