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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 1014627, member: 8033&quot;]Depends on the coin and what comes in.</p><p>We buy junk as junk basically. We&#039;ll pay the same amount for a dateless Standing Liberty as we will for an AU 1964 Washington.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bag of Mercury dimes in question would probably yielded few coins of a grade of F or better. First consider the circulation factor then the fact that we do peruse these for coins that are XF or better. We have buyers for those at a better premium.</p><p>That bag would have had coins from PR to F for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mixed bag I made the other day would have yielded dimes from PR to AU. It was heavier on Roosevelts so the grades would have been consistently higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same goes for quarters and even halves. Depends on what I put in the bag.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have many buyers. One in Chicago supplies a lot of the places that put together overpriced sets for the uninformed.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was paying a nice premium on Franklin halves recently. The grades on those will be lower than 1964 Kennedys and higher than Walking Liberties.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in my vague answer any given bag can contain coins from PR to AU and even BU. The average weight is still generally 397-398 TO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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