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 Posted 03/08/2012  4:33 pm Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

A lady brought in seven trade dollars. What would you offer?

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 Posted 03/08/2012  4:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
$1400 or so
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 Posted 03/08/2012  5:17 pm  Show Profile Check Drsandman2's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Drsandman2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Are they real?
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 Posted 03/08/2012  5:51 pm  Show Profile Check oih82w8's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add oih82w8 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
ummm...
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make sure they aren/t stolen...
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make sure they aren/t stolen...



make sure they're not counterfeit!
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 Posted 03/08/2012  6:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Funny Money to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
with Moe. Unless they're slabbed. By a top TPG.
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Looks like 1400-1500 would be a good price for both dealer and seller.
Or you could offer to retail them for her on eBay for 10-15% and you would probably make pretty fair wages for an hour of work.
If I had the chance to buy these, I'd swap out the '75-P for the year I have in my 7070, and peddle the rest.

-edit- I am presuming an experienced guy like fredd can spot a fake one of these from across a smoke filled room.
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 Posted 03/08/2012  7:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add M0nks to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
ill give you 7 dollars
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 Posted 03/08/2012  11:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Are they real?

When Joe Public shows up with seven trade $ and nothing else, that's exactly the first thing you should think.
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And that's the second thing.
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 Posted 03/08/2012  11:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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ill give you 7 dollars


Exactly my offer.

The high grade ones were very deceptive counterfeits, by which I mean they would fool most collectors who didn't know what to look for, and prolly most of these "we buy silver" types. The most telling feature (aside from the fact that most dealers don't have seven TD) was that all raised surfaces, even the stars, had a sandy surface under mag. Of course, if you never saw a real one, or at least real coins from that era, you'd assume that's how they were supposed to look.

The 76s were obvious. Wear wasn't normal, lettering was thin, strike was very weak, they looked polished, etc.

Interestingly, when I told her they were all fake, her reaction was like "gee, really?" I don't know about you, but if someone just told me that $1400 worth of coins were fake, my reaction would be more like "you're a liar" or "I'm gonna kill someone". I suspect she had already been told.


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I am presuming an experienced guy like fredd can spot a fake one of these from across a smoke filled room.

Thanks for the faith. I'm not that good, but I try to be right more often than wrong.
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I'd swap out the '75-P for the year I have in my 7070, and peddle the rest.

Why not the 77cc?
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 Posted 03/08/2012  11:40 pm  Show Profile Check smokeriderdon's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add smokeriderdon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You know how I knew they were fake? Its Fred posting that. he posts something like that in that manner, its a set up.
It is could've, would've or should've, not could of, would of or should of.
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