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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaceravone, post: 1728185, member: 9474&quot;]I have mixed feelings about this as a coin collector and an investor.&nbsp; First, based on the OPs 10 posts, it doesn&#039;t sound like this young man is a collector although he doesn&#039;t appear to share otherwise.&nbsp; The coin collector in me screams to keep the coin.&nbsp; It is a classic rare coin that so few can possess and many of us wish we had.&nbsp; Here is this young man, at 16 years of age who has a genuine rarity that was found in a &quot;junk&quot; box of coins.&nbsp; This is something that we only dream of.&nbsp; But as the coin collector in me screams to keep the item, if he is not a coin collector then why keep it when someone who is, can add such a wonderful coin to their collection.&nbsp; The investor side of me has to think that at 16, this young man doesn&#039;t have any debt or bills that urgently need to be paid.&nbsp; He even said that he didn&#039;t need to sell it.&nbsp; So why sell it?&nbsp; If it was worth $1800-3000, this would only go up in value down the road.&nbsp; I can only hope that the money is put away and used for a future college fund and not blown on other stuff.&nbsp; Unfortunately, you don&#039;t have to be 16 years old to be tempted to blow through the money.&nbsp; I have seen this way too often when someone comes into money and blows through it in weeks.&nbsp; I can give countless examples of my brother and my wife&#039;s cousin who are both down on their luck, came into a good amount of money and did not have the know how to save for the future.&nbsp; Both blew through their funds like the world was ending tomorrow and are now more broke then they were before.&nbsp; I hope this is no the case and that this young man sees that and puts the money away.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from my diatribe above, I still believe that this was a good return on investment as the coin was given to him and the most he has invested into the coin were the grading fees.&nbsp; He sold the coin for $3000 on ebay.&nbsp; Once ebay and paypal take their cut, he should be left with around $2700 or a tad less and minus grading fees probably looking around a tad bit over $2600.&nbsp; I wish I could flip something like that![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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