Thats incredibly rude. He asked a question don't shove it in his face. Well anywhays I think you should go to a coin show or auction because there are coin dealers there who know the value of these coins. So if you wan't full value an auction for the more expensive coins would be best. For the less expensive coins your best chance is ebay or a dealer even though youve had a bad experience.
Hi GP, I think "Al Gore" was trying to point out that rounder may not be on the up and up. Think about it- he has two posts (read his other one as well), that are poorly written and not very sophisticated. Yet the poster claims to have been collecting coins for 20 years-not just any coins, but extremely valuable, rare for the grade coins. And he "knows" what these incredibly valuable (well, maybe not incredibly valuable if one owns a 1933 double eagle, an 1804 PR68 silver dollar, or a PR66 1913 nickel) are worth. doesn't quite add up- and it is rude. Don
"that are poorly written and not very sophisticated. Yet the poster claims to have been collecting coins for 20 years" I dont know, I can see it. Ive collected comics for probably 30 years and I dont sound sophisticated about it. I just collect for fun. I just sold pretty much the whole original Warren Vampirella series on ebay last year and my knowledge is so bad about the specifics that I had to take them to a comic dealer in town to have them graded, I couldnt do it myself. I had the comics, I didnt have the finesse.
SFDukiei i only got one post!! SF i am sorry about my English i am 48 years old and i when to school in italy (Italia) and my english is poor!! and that give you no reason for talking the way you guys talk!!about the 1933 Saint-GAudens Double eagle that sold for $7.59 million on july 30,2002 the Goverment cosiders the same inllegal for priavete ownership, because of an executive order by president Roosevelt. the only 2 legal coins are in the National Numismatic collection .and last 1804 PF 68 not "PR'Three varietes struck in 1834-35and 1858they sold 3 PF-68 for $4.14million PF-65 for 1.8 and last a PF-58 for $854,000 so is crazy to compare a 1886-o morgan to a double eagle. if u need the history of any American coins i be happy to answer!! but no i dont own a 1933 double Eagle e will be a dream for me just to hold the MOST EXPENSIVE COIN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!!
My point simply is that we are here to ask questions and answer them. Not to criticize someones knowledge on coins. We wouldn't learn anything like that. Why not just suggest a book to help the person read up on coins or purchasing a red book for prices. One of the reasons I joined this forum was because it was clean and instead of being critiziced for my small knowledge of coins I was told how to increase it. That is what im trying to get at.
You and me too, GP! I guess we both need a lot of learning and understanding before we will feel competent with this old hobby of coin collecting. So hang in there and we can both enjoy the trip! I found that I have learned something when I least expected to learn. Most of the time it involved coins, but not always. Take care and have a nice day.
Hi GP, I definitely wasn't trying to criticise you. I'm not sure what I would advise someone with 10,000 coins in a collection that they had been accumulating over 20 years, and which included coins of which higher grade examples can be counted on one hand and are worth well in excess of $100,000, and who was very sophisticated in their knowledge of grading shorthand, yet who posted a couple of times and are replied to by Al Gore, who manages to get banned on his first post, on the same day that someone else who collects SLQs on their first post links which refer to a tropical island where ASEs circulate at face value. That is what I am trying to get at. I would probably ask them how they acquired such gems. After all, if one has a coin for which no finer examples exist, and knows that no finer examples exist, don't you find it a bit strange that they know how to buy such a coin, but not how to sell it? I'd probably recommend something other than the usual good advice of reading the redbook and photograde, and recommend professional help of numerous varieties. And I'd know that they could afford it by selling their $4000 coin to ensure that they got top dollar for their 120,000 coin. I'd probably recommend a good tax attorney as well.
Howdy Rounder1212 - Welcome to the Forum !! I do understand your problem - it is one that many collectors face when the time comes to sell their coins. I am all too well aware that there are plenty of dealers out there that will take advanatge of you if they can. But by the same token - there are also many out there who are quite honest and will offer you fair value for your coins. You just have to find the right one. Now I do have a question for you - you say that you sent your coins to a company in Sarasota Fla. Would that company happen to be NGC - or was it some other company ? I ask that question because of your comment about what they, the company, said the coins you submitted were worth. NGC has an impeccable reputation. And if NGC said the coins were only worth $200 and you think they are worth much, much more - then there has to be a reason. I am curious as to what that reason is. So if you can post some pics of the coins you submitted to them - it would be extremely helpful. And once we see the pictures - it will also be much easier for us to be able to offer you suggestions as to how to solve your problem
