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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;john65999, post: 8062239, member: 111931&quot;]not very much, the die chips maybe a few dollars each, the struck through grease about the same, and you have to remember silver was going through the roof back in the early 80&#039;s&nbsp; if i had 100.00 face value at the start of the show, by noon it was all gone back then 3-5.00 on the dollar and kept going up, people were very eager to sell what they had because they did not think it would go higher, i got out of the coin business when silver was at 36.00 an ounce, but dealers were only paying about 28.00, i remember popping open proof sets, to get the silver..lol and some of the coins i sold then are worth a fortune now, i had a few 1921 peace in gem bu+++ sold em for 400 ea, and 2 1916 type 1 slq, sold those to bowers and ruddy galleries for 100.00 each..today those are like 40k each..if i had only saved em...i got out of coins and went into selling tools, then i operated coin op video games, put them in theatres and restaurants and such..i have had many business in my career...but i seem to always come back to coins....in the late 80&#039;s early 90&#039;s was doing a flea market in maybrook new york and also wholesaling&nbsp; out of my van..electronics and videos, lighters, you name it whatever i could pick up in new york citiy&#039;s then (5th avenue and 28th st) wholesale district..there was a guy at the fl market who was a jeweler, he used to sell me a roll of silver dollars, sometimes more, some times less..whatever he had, i invested in them for 3 years, then when i was ready to buy my first house i sold all my silver , 5 100 oz bars, maybe 100 1 ozers, and 350 silver dollars at then price of 13.00 an ounce and bought my house, also got rid of a restored 69 camaro...wound up losing everything in divorce..started over, just life, you win, you lose, you start over...kind of retired now and it is mainly a hobby, but starting to hit the coin shows around my area...coins are in my blood..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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