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Pillar of the Community
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Somebody spent a lot of $$ trying to get a pr70.
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upstate, I like your comment better than the collection. I'd rather have a smaller, more valuable collection. A huge lot of no silver, no gold and no PR70. How many hours of breaking up 10-20 dollar proof sets and shipping off the coins? The best part is free shipping. That's going to be a big box of coins or should I say plastic? I can see the top bidder now: "I thought this was silver. I want my money back  ." Back to the seller for a relist  . |
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I'd rather have a smaller, more valuable collection.  That's still an impressive amount of hours that had to go into putting the collection together! |
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I can't see it at work! Here you go...  How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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For oih82w8 - a couple of images. There 1000 proof69 coins here, current bidding is at $1850 (reserve not met), ends in 4 days (so you have time  ).   |
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One more...  These are not my thing but I imagine this could be profitable for flipping, if gotten at a good price. |
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To mds308,
"I'd rather have a smaller, more valuable collection."
AMEN! AMEN!! AMEN!
Sure, it looks bright and shiny, but given a bottomless pocketbook it can be recreated. Not so with classic older
coins which rarely come to market.
So, I am NOT impressed.
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Unless you get a bargain, there probably is not much appreciation in this lot. When I was a little kid (some would say I still act like one) a coin dealer asked me would I rather have a collection of QUANTITY or a collection of QUALITY? This made sense to me at the age of eleven and makes more sense today.
It's like the guys who put 2000 dollar wheels and rims plus a 3000 dollar stereo system with an 1800 dollar car.
What I mean by this is you have a 3 dollar coin in an 18 dollar slab. I just don't see the logic in that.
Yes, the collection is neat and cool to look at but it takes up too much space. And who knows what ridiculous reserve this guy has on the hoard. I'd rather buy a nice slabbed and graded 1879CC AU Morgan.
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It's very impressive and sits at 54 bids, $2,125.00 with 4 days to go.
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Thanks for the images...I am going to pass on this one...I could do a " one-sy - two-sy" kind of thing but I don't have the storage space for it at this time;  closing scene to "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...you know when the Ark is being taken away to be stored/studied by "Top Men".  It's the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the piles of slabs.  Edited by oih82w8
02/01/2013 10:51 am
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A huge lot of no silver, no gold and no PR70. I'd rather have one St. Gaudens or one 1889-CC Morgan for that $$$. |
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I'll go with the dissenting minority on this one. A whole bunch of what seems to be bog-standard, modern, not particularly rare or collectible coins, made "desirable" solely because they are slabbed. Maybe that seems harsh, but from what I can see I would be willing to pay about face value for the whole lot just so I could crack 'em and spend 'em...
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Like someone else said, I'm just not in to proofs.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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oih82w8, Is this a picture of your current collection? Take it out of the boxes so we can see it.  |
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Your right mds308,
I big box of plastic. If you want proofs buy original sets. Sending them to be graded makes no sense.
All I could imagine is somebody got all excessive/compulsive about a coin graded 70, to make the big "profit".
Instead they got a thousand 69's and grading companies are laughing all the way to the bank, as it goes.
In response to "I'd rather have a smaller more valuable collection"
My collecting goals are definitely changing. I have most of the coins I want (my hoard) and the sets I like are just missing keys. So I'm getting keys and downsizing. After that I'll focus on nicer coins or maybe a Morgan set (same thing).
It's interesting to see the maturation and many here have already been through it. Lots of wisdom here (CCF, not my posts)
if you know what to listen to.
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01/31/2013 4:33 pm
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