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Also consider googoo, that he is probably not talking about a Sheldon scale good. Most people off the street would probably not consider a G4 grade to be good, but rather a VF or higher.
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Also consider googoo, that he is probably not talking about a Sheldon scale good. Most people off the street would probably not consider a G4 grade to be good, but rather a VF or higher. Exactly! |
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Never got a responce. I guess they didn't like the e-mail  Quote:
Hey there
I'm interested in the coins but $400 seems a bit steep unless they are All very rare. Most generic world coins are 10 cents to 25 cents...not $40 a piece.
Since it's only 100 coins can you at least itemize the best 10 coins in there? Pictures would also be great if possible. |
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Useful advice, if on deaf ears.  Some people don't realize how plentiful are pre-euro coins after, say 1950--where most have little value over scrap. $400 would make sense only if there were 100 pre-1900 @ VF or better.  Edited by DVCollector
09/15/2011 4:26 pm
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that listing makes my eyes bleed.
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Hahaha, yeah it is! Do you think he'd take $2.38?
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I wouldn't give him $10 for that unless he held a gun to my head.
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I collected forign coins as a kid in the 60's there wsa even a gumball type machine at a strip mall where for a quarter you'd get a plastic bubble with a few forign coins in them. I had older brohters in the military who would send me coins form Europe. When I got older I joined the AF and went to England. Kept a bunch of coins from when I was there in the 70's. A few years ago I went through them all and sorted them by country. I have some from almost every European country and many from Asia and the middle east. I din't find any that were worth much so I gave them all to my youngest son hoping he might take an interest in collecting coins. He really hasn't and I've been collecting US coins noew for a while. I wonder what will ever happen to them old gorign coins. |
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I can see how this played out.
Guy has a nice coin collection.
Wife says there's a kid on the way and he needs to sell them.
Guy says, fine I'll put them on CL, but makes the listing as vague as possible.
Coins don't sell.
Guy to wife...well I've tried selling them several times, but no one is buying.
Wife saye "OK, we will just have to take them to the bank then." |
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I see these all the times on craigslist, once in a while I see steals, most of the time I see Buffalo nickels for $10 each for worn dates. |
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I can see how this played out.
Guy has a nice coin collection.
Wife says there's a kid on the way and he needs to sell them.
Guy says, fine I'll put them on CL, but makes the listing as vague as possible.
Coins don't sell.
Guy to wife...well I've tried selling them several times, but no one is buying.
Wife saye "OK, we will just have to take them to the bank then." And then you can watch the look on her face as she tries to get a bank to take foreign coins... |
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Why is it that some fathers tell their sons they are giving them "rare" silver pennies? This happened to my friend and me when we were discussing coins in Starbucks over the summer. A total stranger came over to us and told us he had a rare "silver" 1943 penny, a family heirloom, he would sell us. I wanted to laugh and tell him it was made from steel, but my friend shook his head. He kindly thanked the man but turned him down. "Don't laugh," he told me after he left. "This is the typical level of knowledge most Americans have about coins."
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I could go to my local coin dealer today and pick up 100 foreign coins from 45 different countries (not Canada or the US) for about $20. Add a few silvers and it's probably still less than $50. That is about what I figured as well, and it wouldn't take you 20 years to do it. |
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