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At the local coin show this morning a dealer had a few 2000 cents slabbed ICG MS65RD that were 20-25% offcenter. I had a look at one of them and it had a Wide AM reverse. Dealer was asking $30 for it. I am sure this dealer was not aware that it was a Wide AM. I passed on it. Was it worth it? TIA Harvey Edited by harveypb
12/27/2009 9:00 pm
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Rest in Peace
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Off center, MS 65 RD and WAM also. I might have had to get it. Wonder why the WAM wasn't on the label, unless it really wasn't a WAM, or ICG wasn't informed to attribute it (extra fee). |
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By the way, was that at a Lauderdale show ?
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I can just assume that the dealer was more interested in slabbing the offcenter error because it was a very nice red BU.
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United States
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It was at the West Palm Beach show this morning......
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Valued Member
United States
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Last month at the West Palm Beach coin show, Randy Campbell, former grader for ANACS, now a grader for ICG was at the show taking submissions and giving grading opinions. This dealer must have submitted the offcenter cents last month at the show and put them
out today. Another dealer had his ICG graded dimes-halves from a 1957 Mint Set that he submitted and told me that the turn around time was about 3 days. The coins graded 65 and some 66.
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I didn't get to the show until about 12. I must have missed the off center cents.
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United States
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This dealer had a lot of raw, unattributed bust halves as well as other early US coins. He had a small pile of about 5 ICG offcenter cents....... |
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The problem with a coin like that is they typically do not appeal to die variety collectors or error collectors. What you say?!? How can that be, it is the best of both worlds! Well, not really unfortunately. An error collector is going to be interested in it for being off center and will probably not be interested in paying extra for it just because it is a Wide AM. A die variety collector will be looking for that perfect example of a Wide AM and the fact that the coin is off center will just be a distraction. Sure, some will be more interested in a coin like that but most specialists will not. This phenomenon is most pronounced with key date coins. An error on a key date will, in most cases, actually lower the value! |
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I personally would not have been in the market for them at any price, mostly for the reason Biokemist states...they are a chore to sell at any price.
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Thanks for the replies....
I also thought that neither a variety or error collector would want it, they usually collect one or the other but not both.....hard to sell when the time came....
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Posted 12/27/2009 9:01 pm
