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Message:: [QUOTE="benveniste, post: 934491, member: 25547"]First, "unsearched" at best means unsearched by the dealer. There's no way they can assure you they weren't searched before they got them.  Running a few quick numbers here:<blockquote>Typical price for a bag of 5000 "unsearched" wheaties: $300Junk Silver Price: 12-13 times face.Dealer "Junk Box" price for Indians, Buffalo Nickels and War Nickels: $1 each."Junk Box" price for a steel cent: $0.25 at most. (These are often giveaway items). </blockquote>So by my calculations, you are paying approximately a 100% premium based on the dealer's assertion that the material came directly from some farmer's stash. Effectively, that's no worse a deal than playing the typical state lottery. I don't know if the "dream" is worth $15 bucks to you, but that's a personal call. That said, I do wish to point out some inconsistencies in the seller's claims. A "coin counter" can't separate out bronze indians from lincolns, buffalos from jeffersons, nor mercs from rosies. In theory, it could pick out steelies and war nickels from other jeffersons. Next, take a look at this site: <a href="http://www.pennies.com/depression.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pennies.com/depression.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.pennies.com/depression.htm.</a> You may notice that a) those kids look familiar, and b) the price at that site is $27.95 instead of $29.95. You may also notice that the site claims both "500,000 Old Coins hoarded from the Depression" and "This collection of over 1 million old US coins..." Which is it? Finally, in a hoard dating back to the Depression as claimed, I would expect to see SLQ's and even a sprinkling of Barber coinage. If the material is unsorted as claimed, what happened to them?[/QUOTE]

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