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My husband and I enjoy watching Rick's show together and we call it "Date Night." We enjoy a glass of wine while watching the show presentation, and then we make bets with each other of who can find a similar coin of the same PCGS-NGC-ANAC grade on the internet. Ha.

I DO have to admit that about 12 or more years ago my husband purchased a 3 piece set of ungraded 1879 cc over cc "MS-63 Silver" Morgan Dollars from Rick for a total of $240 and I wanted to slap my husband silly. By accident I included one of the coins inside a case meant for our $20 Double Eagles.

Recently, I went to my local coin dealer to sell some of our gold and by mistake included the Morgan Dollar. The Staff started going CRAZY. ALL of the managers started coming out and hovering over the Morgan, but not the gold. Gosh, I had about $30,000 in pre-1933 gold coins, but it was the Morgan the dealers were going crazy about. The grader for the store declared the coin to be a "clear CC" and felt the coin was MS-64 rather than 63. He offered me $7500 on the spot . . . and I DARN WELL TOOK IT! Rick's Aloha shirt must have blurred his vision when he sold my husband that set. And this lesson taught me also that my husband "sometimes" just might be right. Tee hee.

We're old folks and simple coin collectors. All we were trying to do is sell our ungraded gold in order to replace it with graded gold. THAT MORGAN DOLLAR SURE WAS AN UNEXPECTED THRILL FOR US! That sale from Rick made up for all of our "other" stupid purchases.

 

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Every time I accidentally come across ANY TV coin seller, I am rather immediately rendered nauseous at the abusive prices charged therein. To anyone reading this, if you are buying from a TV show seller, you ARE being taken, no doubt whatsoever.

 

Ohh . . . and about the Morgan Dollar I just described above . . . . I tried to call Rick's Store for a week to tell him about the experience. For an entire week no person picked up the phone, there was only music. No answering service. There was not a way to talk to a living person and leave a message.

 

I'm hoping the music was "good" music at least . Hopefully it wasn't "another one bites the dust".

 

Just for the record, Rick has had his own program for only 4 years now...before that , he was a guest host for Barry Chappel about 2 years. Before that, he never was on any T V at all.

 

Thanks to you! If you're going to collect something, what better than money? Enjoy the hobby and all the best!

 

How do you really feel about Coin TV?

 

Correct, and it goes much deeper. Ricks relationship with Barry Chappell went a complete 180 degrees after Rick was given on-air time at ACTV by Barry to sell what else? Franklin and Kennedy Half Dollars! Rick was Barry's Morgan Dollar buyer before his TV appearances on ACTV. NGC recognized Barry's Proof Morgan Set as #1 in the NGC Registry and he mentioned it often. Sound familiar with what Rick does now? Rick, to his credit however has become much more comfortable on-air these last few years, and it shows. Thanks for the comment!

 

I found watching Rick to be stunningly boring. Tedious recitation of populations, the same type of coins, legal but misleading Ebay comparisons. I no longer get his channel and while I might be desperate to watch some coins being promoted I'm better off without him. Your analysis seems fair and balanced but I'm sure Rick baby doesn't.

 

Someone mentioned in another post that they worked for Littleton or lived right next to them. Is this you? If not, why would you ever reveal that you once got caught up in their coins on approval service? I couldn't think of a more hellish way to collect coins, anywhere on earth.

 

It’s blatently obvious why he was a part of it, it provided him with something he loved while he was overseas in the Army. Surely you can’t be so dense that you can’t see how finding the best deal possible wasn’t his concern

 

Surely I can see that you bought from Littleton as well then. Being overseas can provide you with different experiences, like maybe collecting foreign coins or reading a book. But I guess some people like rationalizing misfortune.

 

Given that this is Memorial Day weekend it would be a very fitting time for you to learn about what serving overseas in the military is. God forbid he found comfort in something he enjoyed during his time deployed that reminded him of home without being critized.

 

No it was not me. I was overseas in the Army and it was decades before the internet existed. Not many coin shops in the outlying bergs of Germany.

 

Thank you @baseball21.... Some folks are oblivious to the meaning of self sacrifice. They are allowed their narrow viewpoint because of those that serve. I see it all too often these days.

 

I grew up in a military family myself. That was honestly one of the most frustrating things I’ve ever read on a coin forum to see someone critizing someone who was deployed for finding joy in something. Just made it even worse it was back in those days as you mentioned but I guess some people think you were supposed to bargain shop on deployment. That attitude just really annoyed me coming off so uninformed and then his response to me was just well......

 

And rest assured. I used my time wisely overseas and became a very proficient musician. For ten years after leaving the Army I toured the east coast as a successful musician. Had you been watching TV in the late 1980’s you would have heard my playing on a TV show and a commercial jingle.... Yes I served. Yes I kept my love of coins alive and yes I did expand my personal horizons during those years..... So, I would caution you. Before you cast stones upon others. Take just a moment to gaze at your own glass house.

 

But the way you collected offended someone, so clearly you did it all wrong

 

Thanks Frank for your comment. Rick's show can get tedious like you mentioned. For example the amount of times he features $20 St. Gaudens Gold Double Eagles. A great coin of course with much history and beauty. But he features them constantly. He acquired a large hoard of them from a European bank that had been untouched since the 1930's due to a collector that sent them there after gold became "illegal" to hold here in the U.S. So he does have and had a large amount of them to sell. And despite the fact I cannot purchase those really rare dates & mint marks for cost reasons (many times available for much less elsewhere), I do enjoy seeing a beautiful St. Gaudens in a rare date and high grade that I could only dream of owning.

 

Sorry for any offense, I just really hate Littleton and your previous post almost read like you were complacent with the company's practices. I understand your point though, i just wanted to cast some more hate out there for that company