Sleepers...sleepers...sleepers!!!

With metals so high what are the sleepers? what is your thinking?

 

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Are you thinking high metal prices are going to create sleepers?

 

Yes,

Please clarify DanR. If this IS your line of thinking one might think Kennedy halves with ANY silver content in them but silver would have to go awfully high to get them out of the "junk silver" category. Excpet for PRIMO examples of course.

 

The janitor at work said cans went up a dime......

 

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Non silver/gold maybe? What are the sleepers at this time?

 

Three cent nickels and non-Lincoln cents.

 

Ikes

 

I'll agree with the 40% halfs. I searched rolls recently and had two miserable looking 40% halfs left over.
Went to a dealer looking for early Lincoln cents. He gave me $3 for the two junk halfs. They only cost me $1 so yeah there is a profit to be found.

 

At todays prices here is what the metals are worth and coin prices are at melt. 3/12/2008 silver $19.95

Todays Metal Prices:
Copper-$3.8399/Lb
Aluminum-$1.3915/Lb
Zinc-$1.751/Lb
Nickel-$14.2216/Lb

Coins at melt value:

1942-1945 War Nickel
At 0.0563 Troy oz 1 Nickel is worth $1.12 ea and $44.90 a roll

1916-1945 Mercury Dime
1946-1964 Roosevett Dime
At 0.0723 Tory oz 1 dime is worth $1.44 ea and $72.16 a roll

1932-1964 Washington Quarter
At 0.1808 Troy oz. 1 Quarter is worth 3.61 ea and $144.32 a roll.

1916-1947 Walking Liberty Half
1948-1963 Franklin Half
1964 Kennedy half 90%
At 0.3617 Troy oz. 1 half is worth $7.22 ea and a roll $144.32

1965-1970 Kennedy half 40%
At 0.1479 Troy oz 1 Half is worth $2.95 ea and $59.01 a roll

1878-1921 Morgan
1921-1935 Peace
At 0.7735 Troy oz 1 Dallor is worth 15.43 ea and $308.61 a roll

1971-1976 Ike Dollar 40%
At 0.3162 Troy oz 1 Ike is worth $6.31 ea and $126.18 a roll

So if silver goes up to the price it did in the 80's then you could say there will be sleepers in silver coins.:hail:

 

That's a big if. The Hunt brothers are dead (or at least one is). I don't think anyone is trying to corner the market on silver this go 'round so I don't forsee silver going up by 2.5 X its current level (but it could certainly happen).

 

Most likely it will not go that high, I just said if it did. Yes one of the Hunt brother is gone but you still have one and both of the Bass brother!

 

Canadian nickels (pre-1982) are worth almost three times face, and can be found very easily. I get about 20-25% of my nickels as pre-1982s. I won't get rich quick, but it's a good return on my investment, and easy to do.

 

Danr, LEAD looks like a bullish buy now. So get busy... LOL
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metalschart.asp?c=Lead&r=1y

 

sleepers....

how 'bout prez bucks?

 

Ikes 40% big sleeper

 

Lead is going to be taking some big drops . ONE main reason = Fishing is the #2 market for lead next to bullets. Canada BANNED the use of lead in fishing lures and the US is working on the same thing. Althought Some states have already started the ban. Soon there will be a NO LEAD law for fishing lures in the UK as well. So lead is a bust. The biggest buyers of lead are fishing lure companys and weight makers that will soon all have to use something else. I Know to those of you that don't follow fishing laws would think that sounds odd. But its a fact.

Leads a dead weight falling fast. But there are still plenty of reasons to INVEST IN IT. China being one. Cars being another.

 

Ikes, pre 1959 Lincolns, Pre 1982 Lincolns and Nickels will all start to hike in value within the next 3 years. Starting with the Cents then the Ikes followed shortly after by the Nickel, that I suspect with be heading for a big change soon. I think the Nickel will be made of copper with in the next 4 or 5 years.

If you have any Ikes and older Lincolns. Keep holding them. THOSE will be the next big thing. I have already seen the Ikes start to take off in price. I beleive that has to do with the Copper Nickel content as well as the coins turning 30 years old. Let us not forget that a lot of ikes have been melted by the US gov.

 

Look at the $5 Gold Libs. There are several sleeper dates that have comparitively, very low mintage; but can be bought at comparible prices to its higher mintage cousins. (They also follow gold bullion prices closer than most other US gold coins in some grades (AU-ish)...sort of like the French gold roosters)

 

In reality Siver and Gold and Platinum may go down in value pending the value of the dollar and how much usage there will be for thme in the future. AAAHHHHH but LEAD. Still being used for bullets and should be for a long time and we all need those. Then of course they still make Lead-Acid batteries, weights for balancing car tires, sinkers for fishermen, paint for toys in China and oddly enough there is a company in England that sells moulds for Lead Soldiers, Prince August. They sell moulds so you can make entire chess sets out of Lead. So if you loose the game you can just eat the pieces and end it all.

Andy21us: Those are nide statistics. Have you attempted to sell any of those metals for those prices? Naturally depending on where you are those all just don't work for selling. Maybe buying if you don't know what your doing, but not for selling. For example a Mercury Dime around me sells for $1 each and if you purchase numerous ones, they go for $0.90.