Today a teller informed me that an older lady was turning in her coins. They convinced her not to turn in the silver or the old paper money and gave her my name. I can't wait to see it next week. However, she turned in all of the cents and I bought them from the teller today at face. This is what I received for my $66.50: 49 rolls of wheat cents, all labled by year and mint mark, including: 35P 36p 37p (2) 32 rolls from the forties....nearly every year/mint mark 13 rolls from the fifties 9 rolls marked by year and mint mark from 61 - 64 44 BU rolls including 8 1974D 20 1979D 16 T/T (unknown) One roll of nickels 30 rolls of mixed cents....I opened a few of them so far and they were all from the sixties with a few from the seventies....most of them brown and circulated, but a few gems here and there Not bad for paying face, eh? Now, what should I do with all of the 74 and 79 BU rolls? Anyone have any idea?
You could try this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1974-D-BU-L...48?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item587a6c0ac8
What I can't understand is why someone who obviously has obsolete coins and paper money would be content with merely accepting face value for them? Fortunately, I recently went over the value of my mother's older stuff with her, and she knows better than to try to turn most of it in to the bank for face value! (Although some of it was just recent spendable stuff)
I didn't say earlier, but one of the things she has is a $5,000 note. Can you imagine turing that in for face? She'll go nuts when I tell her it is worth north of $25000.
Oh, my, turning in a note worth $25,000 for $5,000... I think this is a very good example of why we should teach at least someone in our respective families about the value of our-- and their-- coin and note holdings!
