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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7927430, member: 105098"]As far as selling the set, Meh, you'd probably lose money on it in a lot of cases with the cost of the album/folder. There's also nothing wrong with popping them all out and turning them in for face value later and starting over on it. More of a side project for something to do to have a goal besides trying to find something that can be sold. </p><p>As far as plural set(s) I meant more like a set for cents, one for nickels one for dimes ect. not putting together a half dozen state quarter sets or something like that.</p><p> </p><p>The point was it's mostly a goal to achieve, something to do as a by product, in order to keep motivated into looking. I've been roll hunting for decades now, finds of value are few and far between. in the late 1980s and early 1990s. silver was more common to find than it is now in 2021. most coin roll finds might net you a dollar or two or five, but you'll be looking through thousands of coins and finding nothing, to find the one here or there that has a value over face. </p><p><br /></p><p>There's stuff to find out there somewhere, just my opinion that there's a whole lot of nothing also and it can get discouraging so putting together a folder of the best examples you can pull while hunting, gives it purpose and reason to continue and keep looking. </p><p><br /></p><p>So many new hunters come on here and ask again and again, "is this something?" </p><p>it's like that, finding something above face value is hard now. in the early 1990s, in a year I could put up a couple rolls of silver quarters and dimes each easily, some years as many as 10 rolls of each if I worked at it and stayed on the hunt. I haven't seen anything like that or even come across a whole roll of silver in at least 20 years. Even with half dollars, most of my finds are now 40%ers, if even that appears and that's few and far between finds. </p><p><br /></p><p>the most successful coin hunters have all the information at their fingertips, spend a lot of time hunting, and really know what they are looking for. the knowledge is everything, then staying at it is the other part of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7927430, member: 105098"]As far as selling the set, Meh, you'd probably lose money on it in a lot of cases with the cost of the album/folder. There's also nothing wrong with popping them all out and turning them in for face value later and starting over on it. More of a side project for something to do to have a goal besides trying to find something that can be sold. As far as plural set(s) I meant more like a set for cents, one for nickels one for dimes ect. not putting together a half dozen state quarter sets or something like that. The point was it's mostly a goal to achieve, something to do as a by product, in order to keep motivated into looking. I've been roll hunting for decades now, finds of value are few and far between. in the late 1980s and early 1990s. silver was more common to find than it is now in 2021. most coin roll finds might net you a dollar or two or five, but you'll be looking through thousands of coins and finding nothing, to find the one here or there that has a value over face. There's stuff to find out there somewhere, just my opinion that there's a whole lot of nothing also and it can get discouraging so putting together a folder of the best examples you can pull while hunting, gives it purpose and reason to continue and keep looking. So many new hunters come on here and ask again and again, "is this something?" it's like that, finding something above face value is hard now. in the early 1990s, in a year I could put up a couple rolls of silver quarters and dimes each easily, some years as many as 10 rolls of each if I worked at it and stayed on the hunt. I haven't seen anything like that or even come across a whole roll of silver in at least 20 years. Even with half dollars, most of my finds are now 40%ers, if even that appears and that's few and far between finds. the most successful coin hunters have all the information at their fingertips, spend a lot of time hunting, and really know what they are looking for. the knowledge is everything, then staying at it is the other part of it.[/QUOTE]
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