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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silentnviolent, post: 1830623, member: 8797&quot;]An old man responded to one of my ads. He brought me&nbsp; a cigar box full of old coin tubes for appraisal/offer. He said his wife had saved them; that she had been saving them long ago but the cigar box has been sitting untouched in the top shelf of a closet for over 40 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were mostly wheat cents (25 rolls), a roll of silver dimes, and two rolls of nickels. On the spot, I told him that I usually pay $3-$4 per roll of wheats unsearched. But if he wanted me to go through each roll looking for key dates it would take some time and then, presuming most were all common dates, I&#039;d only offer $2/roll. He accepted those terms and left them with me for 2 days to pore over in search of a key.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t find any key dates. But in addition to the wheats and roll of silver dimes there were about two dozen war nickels, about a dozen common date buffs in decent condition as well as two really nice 1965 nickels (one is the one pictured here), a few nice nickels from the early 50&#039;s, and a bunch of circulated pre-war Jefferson nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>I brought his cigar box back to him, and said that if he took the time to sell everything with good photos, he might get around $100-$120 total, but a little at a time. Then I offered $80 for everything outright, telling him that he was welcome to get other offers before he decided. He figured it would take more effort than it was worth between time and gas for the difference and accepted my $80 offer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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