Coins In Old 2x2s With Old Prices.

I have bought a lot of Indian heads in old 2X2s with old prices. I know what is there, a 1916-D Walker G with toning where there is a whole in the 2X2. A couple of VF/XF Walkers, a commemorative that I would value at maybe $14., and a commmon walker maybe VG/F I will hang on to till silver goes up. Just wondering if there was a reason for the $35 price on the Columbian Expo.

One simple answer may be that they were bought at different times and the prices reflected the price at that time. $35 for a circulated Columbian has always been too high but I have seen times of high silver and various promotions that have sold them for that or higher. He probably bought that during a promotion long ago and priced it then. (Like the ad I saw in National Geographic recently from GovMint selling circulated Stone Mountain halves for $70 each.)

Then there is the possibility like Pertinax's Mr Peabody story when they just put a high price on the 2X2 to try and sucker someone into thinking it was something really good and overbidding on the lot.

Saw a similar Columbian sell for $22 today, it had nice gold toning though.