my apologies, senior moment... ?
OK...mea culpa, mea culpa, if we don't admit our failures, how would anyone else profit from them. Noting the dark areas on the coin, I figured...
Absolutely not, I never met a coin dealer that I didn't like. I merely pointed out that your posting had little to do with what other dealers...
OK...1945 didn't have a proof set, but I assembled a nice set of coins as a "year" set. Then an incredibly generous Secret Santa here on CT...
Doug @GDJMSP next to one of the coins from his "birth year proof set" [IMG]
Your response illustrates this very well.
"well for a fact I just bought a collection at a show that was brought to me I paid much much more than 40% of the retail perhaps if you were...
Shopping at a 99 Cent Only store, I was approached by a panhandler who asked for a dollar to buy a soda...I gave her two half-dollars...she said...
Go back and read slowly...
@Gam3rBlake what's to be lost by offering them here?
...so, you paid "much more than 40%..." which means nothing about what the dealer paid for these.
Sell 'em here
I don't see the seam.
Honestly, I would say 80-90% of dealers wouldn't have any glimmer as to what an ancient coin would be worth.
The other "take" on e-bay is, if you spot a coin you might want to purchase, copy the picture and post it on CT to get people's opinion of it.
Photos or it didn't happen... :)
Great question, that's why I posted it... it is porous, but I don't see any casting bubbles (or pearls). The edge (which the seller didn't show)...
you're not the only one...
I hate myself for doing this, but the word is maybe...may-be, not mab-ey
Perhaps @Insider can provide some "inside" information. How many proofs have you examined (sent in as a small submission, not a bulk submission)...
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