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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KennyMac, post: 955718, member: 23222&quot;]The best deal I was ever offered was time served and....Just Kidding!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since I haven&#039;t been collecting coins for very long at all, (less than a year), I&#039;d have to say the best deal I&#039;ve been offered (and taken), was approximately 40 pounds of Lincoln Cents a couple of weeks ago.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The guy I got them from had them in an old bucket in his garage, covered with a tarp...he also had quite a few in an old curio cabinet type thing with fold-out drawers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since I couldn&#039;t lift the bucket (broken back, with 6 major surgeries and 61 spinal injections) I carefully transferred everything into a large soft-sided Shimano Tackle Bag on wheels thats aout 2-1/2 feet tall...much more manageable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since the top coins came out first, they then became the bottom coins, and the coins on the bottom etc. etc.</p><p>The first thing that caught my eye was a 1724 Swedish 1 ORE....I definately did NOT know what it was at the time and made a post in the forums here and, true to form, you guys came through in no time at all with the answers to my questions.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am not even 1/5 of the way down the &#039;pile&#039;, and I&#039;m already seeing some really nice cents that look like they only spent about 20 minutes in some guys pocket after coming from the mint.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Case in point...i have 4 really beautiful 1959/1959d cents that look for all practical purposes to have just come from the mint...really nice. And it looks like I have coins in that condition (from this trade) from at least 1958 to the most current I&#039;ve found so far...1999. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The oldest cent I&#039;ve found so far is a 1918S cent....(and 3 of the 1920 cents so far, too).</p><p>(Like I said..I&#039;m still at the beginning).</p><p>As I get further and further into seeing what it&#039;s gonna take to go through all of them, I see the need to buckle down and start a serious learning curve in regards to.... varieties, transitional varieties, errors, over mint marks, repunched mint marks, small dates, large dates, die doubling, and on and on...</p><p>This evening I came across a really nice 1970S that has a repunched mint mark, and a 1960D also with an rpm. </p><p>(I now know that only the 1960 small date is the one of value, and that the 1960D is a common coin). </p><p>Oddly enough, I&#039;ve already found 22 of the 1970S, and 13 of the 1960/1960D...</p><p>I&#039;ve found some REALLY nice toned cents, and even some cents with what appears to be a woodgrain finish...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve found some really interesting coins so far, and I&#039;ll definately dedicate a separate post when I finally complete this challenge.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I will also post how I &#039;test-cleaned&#039; a couple of coins without even touching them....this was actually a very cool mental excercise when I put my mind to it... (telekinesis/psychokinesis puns/jokes deleted by popular demand).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m really enjoying this...it&#039;s fun, doesn&#039;t require heavy lifting, keeps the brain occupied, and I&#039;m Learning....... and learning the correct aspects of the subject matter is very important to me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Oh...what did I give in the trade?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>an (original model) Avet S/X fishing reel spooled up with 50# spectra with a 30# fluorcarbon top-shot......about a $150 value in the condition it was in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I also taught the guy how to tie a few fishing knots ....... tying knots may sound banal, but I can tie a Bimini Twist in less than 30 seconds, (it will take the average angler about 3-5 minutes), and I&#039;ve never had that knot fail....yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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