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Valued Member
United States
252 Posts |
I'm not sure if everyone has seen the new Amazon Coin Site or not, but for those without an LCS available, here is another shopping opportunity. http://www.amazon.com/collectiblecoins*** Edited by Staff to make link work. *** |
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Valued Member
United States
89 Posts |
Nice setup. Easy to navigate.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4337 Posts |
Without checking the asking prices against price guides, if it is anything like the Saddle Ridge Hoard pricing, than no thank you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
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Without checking the asking prices against price guides, if it is anything like the Saddle Ridge Hoard pricing, than no thank you. No it is not that bad. You can pick up some nice graded Morgans for only 2.5X fair market value. |
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Valued Member
United States
188 Posts |
The price on the 1907 Ultra-High Relief St. Gaudens is actually pretty reasonable. Now if I could just scrape up $4,000,000...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3453 Posts |
Quote:1885 no mint mark Nickel Three-Cent Piece Three-Cent NGC 66 Oh well, guess I will have to hold out for the counterfeit mint mark.  |
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Valued Member
United States
258 Posts |
I've always been leery to purchase coins off of Amazon, I'd rather order them from trusted online coin dealers. I've purchased some foreign currency from Amazon, but that's all. It's a good website for books, not coins. |
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Valued Member
United States
308 Posts |
While I was there looking around at Amazon (thanks for posting info) I saw a link to US Auction Brokers. Look around there and saw not much bidding but some nice coins with low starting bids. Anyone know much about them? They don't seem to tell you much about how they operate. |
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Valued Member
United States
89 Posts |
I know David Lawrence has coins listed on Amazon. I was looking at some Peace dollars and clicked on one. He came up as the seller. |
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Valued Member
United States
89 Posts |
Just looked around the site again. On the lower left of the homepage is a list of sellers. Clicking See More brings up another page with all the listed sellers. Many online dealers listed including Stacks, Kagin, Aspen Park, J.J. Teaparty, etc.
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Valued Member
United States
58 Posts |
I'm not impressed First, very little there and most of it higher priced items. Their seller input matrix is not tuned for coins, which means you see listings like "1795 no mint mark Silver Dollar Dollar NGC10, Collectible - Like New" - yeah, really, just like that, "Dollar Dollar" and all. I don't know why some people think Amazon is so great. They really are not. Anyone who subscribes to their Prime TV service knows how glitchy their software can be and how little they care. They aren't going to kill ebay. My bet is that this will turn out just like their auction attempt in 1999 - a mass exodus by sellers. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
9792 Posts |
High priced? More like Over priced - example (had to check the 2¢ pieces out - 1864LM MS64RB NGC for $2000 - FMV maybe $400, or 5 times less. The
funny thing is the AU 2¢ coins are all pretty close to market price only $15-40 too much, but the MS and PR coins? Forget it.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Valued Member
 United States
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I agree, not the best avenue to buy from. However, in a pinch you can find those specific coins that you are looking for. Unfortunatly no help for me as I'm cheap and only really do circulated sets and there isn't much of anything for me there. It's just really nice though that it is being accepted widely enough that more avenues for coin purchases are coming about. Now if the pricing became reasonable, but if they are selling at that price, then someone must be buying.
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Posted 05/28/2014 2:06 pm
