@Paddy54 . . . I suggest you grade the first and not the second. - Mike
For a nice looking 1857-S, it's unlikely that you paid too much. More likely, you paid what it's worth, and simply feel like it was too much.
Wish I could examine it in person but, absent that opportunity, I'm going a bit further than before . . . AU50 . . . maybe even 53.
Careful . . . we don't know the man. Unless you do, it might be more appropriate to write, "The guy makes his entire persona out AS being a big...
I think we can be pretty certain some back door negotiation of the FVF took place before this got listed. . . . whoops, just read this after...
I won't tell you which coins but, even buying for resale, I'd eagerly pay more than PCGS prices for some coins.
Don' herchyerself.
And I thought you were purist enough that you'd own no slabs!
You mean you've never seen a dealer dismissively throw a slabbed coin clunking onto a table (as if to say "I couldn't care less about this piece...
Another take on your problem . . . I've been buying a lot of PCGS slabbed coins on eBay recently and many of these are all scratched up (the...
The requisite sharpness of strike appears absent from coin no. 2, despite having been struck with the proof dies. I think you've got a second...
Evidently the Chinese can read as well . . . I think you'd better pass on this "coin".
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