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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 975011, member: 19065"]Ah! From your earlier post, I thought you had just found one available for $150 that you were *now* thinking to buy and flip.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure what you can expect to get from it but certainly a good bit more than what you paid and not just because of the POG increase since you bought it. The value has everything to do with collector demand given these were the only fractional AGBs issued before being cut out last year and the mintages are fairly low. Definitely check how they have been selling lately on eBay by doing a search in <i>completed auctions</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, look up the coin on <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=modbuf&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search4=any&nmcode=19310400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=modbuf&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search4=any&nmcode=19310400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms" rel="nofollow">Numismedia FMV for AGB $5 BU</a> while those are for graded examples the OGP do fairly well too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Elaine <i>was</i> regularly posting retail sales figures, so if you back up a few pages or do a search on CT for her posts about them you might see some past performance, yet she never/rarely cites her source(s) for this info... Sometimes she generalized eBay sales averages and other times it comes straight from the CDN / greysheet reports. Unfortunatly, as is typical for Elaine, she only posts about price INCREASES, and fails to track DECREASES so she leaves us hanging for an objective scope of how these prices are tracking, peaking, leveling or falling off. This is typical of how she celebrates the up tics in bullion gold/silver prices but disappears when the prices fall... so take her figures with a grain of salt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 975011, member: 19065"]Ah! From your earlier post, I thought you had just found one available for $150 that you were *now* thinking to buy and flip. I'm not sure what you can expect to get from it but certainly a good bit more than what you paid and not just because of the POG increase since you bought it. The value has everything to do with collector demand given these were the only fractional AGBs issued before being cut out last year and the mintages are fairly low. Definitely check how they have been selling lately on eBay by doing a search in [I]completed auctions[/I]. Also, look up the coin on [URL="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=modbuf&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search4=any&nmcode=19310400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms"]Numismedia FMV for AGB $5 BU[/URL] while those are for graded examples the OGP do fairly well too. Elaine [I]was[/I] regularly posting retail sales figures, so if you back up a few pages or do a search on CT for her posts about them you might see some past performance, yet she never/rarely cites her source(s) for this info... Sometimes she generalized eBay sales averages and other times it comes straight from the CDN / greysheet reports. Unfortunatly, as is typical for Elaine, she only posts about price INCREASES, and fails to track DECREASES so she leaves us hanging for an objective scope of how these prices are tracking, peaking, leveling or falling off. This is typical of how she celebrates the up tics in bullion gold/silver prices but disappears when the prices fall... so take her figures with a grain of salt.[/QUOTE]
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