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I think I would go back and pick up an uncirculated 1796 quarter for $6 and a few uncirculated 1901-S quarters for $1 each.
I wonder if it was an accurate price guide for the times.
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If you only knew,The 1916 D dime could be had for a dollar in Uncirculated condition." This book is a buying guide, not a retail price list. It is analogous to today's full-page newspaper ads from companies that setup in hotels to buy coins and gold for profit. No doubt they were making plenty of that at those prices, even sixty or so years ago. I actually remember those exact same books from my coin collecting days in the 1950's but I never saved any of them. |
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That price guide is in great shape for '43! So I wonder...what's an 1856 FE priced at--$5? That one always makes me  |
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Next time you go to a show or something show them the price guide and tell them your willing to pay those prices
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Bedrock of the Community
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I have seen other similar items on ebay since I made this pickup this morning. Seems they sell for $10 or $20 I suppose. What I think I will do is take a picture of every page and post it big enough for us all to read and enjoy. Hang in there. Coming soon. Wish I had a scanner but I don't. |
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As much as I would love to time travel, I'm sure that IF we ever do, it will be forward only. No traveling back in time. I'm not an expert on time travel, but I have read a lot on the subject. I even mention 2 possible types of time travel in my signature file.  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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Aren't shortcut keys great? : )
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Like a flashback in time...a 1932-D for 35 cents in fine condition! I would have saved all of them back then. But that is easy for me to say given how much of a Depression was going on during that time.
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Bedrock of the Community
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$3-10 for an 1856 FE? Nice.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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That used to be one of the greatest and cheapest places to buy anything dealing with coins. WAy, way back I stopped in there several times a week. I still have a 1963 catalog of theirs for coin Folders, Albums, plastic rolls, etc. They primarilly sold Whitman Products since Whitman was not that far away and really popular back then.
The people that worked there were really nice and you could haggle prices with them although they were in the middle of the Chicago Downtown area. Not sure when they sold out but they did and were bought by hrlan J. Berk, which is still at that same address. Now no more good deals there.
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Here is another interesting item about that place noted on that catalog of yours. I also thought that company was called something else back about then so I tried Google and found this Quote:
Rare Coin Company of America was founded in 1962 by Ben Dreiske and David Shapiro. Ben had been a dealer in coins and stamps since at least the early 1930's under the name Ben's Stamp and Coin Company. He was a fixture of Chicago numismatics throughout the middle 20th Century, opening his first downtown Chicago store at Adams and Wabash in 1936. In 1949, Ben opened a store at 31 N. Clark Street, the address that eventually became synonymous with RARCOA. Ben's new partner, David Shapiro, son of noted American gold collector Jake Bell (Jacob F. Shapiro), added considerable financial power to the newly incorporated RARCOA war chest.
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Interesting the Barber dime is referred to by the name Morgan. What's up with that? And the 1894-S went for $100-$300? What's really up with that? |
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