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Spotted this item in a general merchandise catalog I just received. Interestingly, the company is based in Minnesota, which leads me to wonder if these are being offered in compliance with that state's strict regulations regarding the sale of coins....  Colligo ergo sum
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I have one of those "famous" ones! Am I rich now?   |
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They could actually write that advertisement to be correct, interesting, informational, and still be enticing.
They go so far out of their way to "sell" the coins that they really miss the better idea of letting the PHOTOS do the talking. The ones they provide leave a great deal to be desired.
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I love the dingily stained, yellow corn colored carpet they chose as a background to showcase the coins.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
01/07/2017 4:17 pm
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Now that you point it out... That background is very ridiculous!
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Pillar of the Community
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Marketing at its finest.  |
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Lucky Cuss - How much is American Coin Treasures asking for these "increasingly rare" treasures? I'm sure the answer will make for a good laugh.
Edit: They have a website with some "treasures". Never heard of the grading company AACGS previously.
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01/07/2017 9:17 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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"Buy today, in 5 years you'll be glad you did!"
5 years ago, people who believed that and bought would be far from glad about now with the current market...
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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How much is American Coin Treasures asking for these "increasingly rare" treasures? I'm sure the answer will make for a good laugh. American Coin Treasures is evidently the supplier of these to the mail order outfit involved, who is in turn retailing them for $134.43 shipped (if purchased before February 15). Colligo ergo sum
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Hmm. I am in the wrong business. I can buy cleaned and problem coin bust halves cheap and then resell them for 3x value in mail order catalogs as major rarities with huge investment potential.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Bust halves are readily available; many dealers carry them all the time.
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This marketing scheme gives a whole new perspective on investing in Bust Halves. A novice collector could literally go "Bust" buying them.
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I'd expect few of these will even remotely resemble the specimen illustrated. And I wonder how many that are, say, technically even VF will have issues - polished, environmentally damaged, etc. I imagine that 5 years from now, a lot of buyers are going to be less than "glad" when they present what are probably culls to a local coin shop and find out what they're really worth. And as I said at the beginning, then (and maybe even earlier) there may well be some attention given this offer from the Minnesota Attorney General if all the i's haven't been dotted and the t's crossed....
Colligo ergo sum
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01/11/2017 08:01 am
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Bust halves are readily available; many dealers carry them all the time.  Wouldn't be hard to assemble a few thousand F-VF problem coins for $30-50 each at most (dealer cost). |
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