Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4289795, member: 101855"]Yea, that's who meant. I can't spell odd proper names, and I don't feel like running off the find the book he wrote every time I want to use his name. More authors should be named Smith or Jones. The economics of situation dictate that these sets do get broken up. If the coins in the set are nice, it's easy to break $200 thousand or more. If you have a few of the coins, especially, one of the $50 gold pieces, you don't really want another one at the Heritage auction price. My round $50 gold came from Sarasota Rare Coin. There are some people with serious money in Sarasota, and sometimes they sell there big coins to them instead of going to auction. I don't what my coin might have been housed in when Sarasota bought it, but the piece was raw. They took up the road to NGC to be graded. It's now an NGC MS-64 (the wrong grader in the opinion of the "PCGS wiennies" with a green CAC sticker. I think that it's nicer than my octagonal piece which is a PCGS MS-64 CAC.[/QUOTE]