I Almost Pulled The Trigger Lol

Went to my friendly nieghborhood dealer this afternoon to sell all those 40% Kennedys I found last week. He gave me just over $600 for them. We were talking as I started going thru different coins I'm needing. This dealer has been a guide and reference for me and although I know he is making money off our transactions I have never felt like he was ripping me off.

When I started collecting he had suggested I do the Mercury dime set first and that is what I had done. The only one left for me to get now is the 16d, which I mentioned as we talked. He laughed and told me he had one, a barely AG2. The date was readable (half of the bottom of the 6 was worn off) and the mint mark was visible...you could tell it was a d but that was about it.

After looking at his sheets he told me he could sell this coin to me for $625....$200 less than the Good price listed in his sheets. Man oh Man was this hard not to go with but after thinking about it for a while I decided not to. When I get this coin I'll end up paying 2-3 times more for it but it will be a decent coin.

Another coin I almost bought today was a 1914d Lincoln Cent. I was going thru his Lincoln Cent box and pulling out dates I needed. I didn't pay any attention to prices on the flips. When I finished I gave him my small stack and he started going thru them. When he got to the 14d there was a (?) mark on the flip under the date. When we looked at the coin with a loupe there were strong scratch marks all around the 1 in 14. The bottom half of the 1 was gone. We came to the conclusion that someone had taken either a 44d or a 24d and tried to make it into a 14d. Needless to say he didn't sell that one to me