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<p>[QUOTE="illini420, post: 901988, member: 19423"]I always look through my "junk" silver as it's really only junk after I've taken a look at all of them to make sure!!! Think about it, if a dealer tossed a common date Barber Half in the junk pile 20 years ago because he thought it was only worth melt (which may have been true at the time) it takes a collector to sort through it again and save such a coin from the junk pile. I've pulled many great coins from sorting the junk silver I buy. Same goes for accumulations of "searched" wheat cents. They may have been searched over for the key dates, but have they really been searched for all repunched mintmarks, doubled dies and semi-key dates?? Likely not!</p><p> </p><p>In the last lot of $50 face of 90% Barbers I purchased I found three 1904-S halves (worth maybe $25 each) and also found a few Seated dimes that were in decent condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="illini420, post: 901988, member: 19423"]I always look through my "junk" silver as it's really only junk after I've taken a look at all of them to make sure!!! Think about it, if a dealer tossed a common date Barber Half in the junk pile 20 years ago because he thought it was only worth melt (which may have been true at the time) it takes a collector to sort through it again and save such a coin from the junk pile. I've pulled many great coins from sorting the junk silver I buy. Same goes for accumulations of "searched" wheat cents. They may have been searched over for the key dates, but have they really been searched for all repunched mintmarks, doubled dies and semi-key dates?? Likely not! In the last lot of $50 face of 90% Barbers I purchased I found three 1904-S halves (worth maybe $25 each) and also found a few Seated dimes that were in decent condition.[/QUOTE]
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