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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barfly, post: 1835387, member: 57721&quot;]I may not be able to recognize fair, but I have a pretty good gut feel for when someone is trying to sucker me. And I haven&#039;t lost a dime. Losing would mean I would sell them to one of the ripoff artists that spew BS at me and think I&#039;m going to magically believe their offer is &quot;fair&quot; afterward. I asked one guy for a mirror so I could check and see if I had &quot;sucker&quot; tattooed on my forehead. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m comfortable that I reached a fair price when I bought the collection for both my buddy&#039;s wife and myself. I bought the silver for melt, gave her a premium for any numismatic value, and gave her back the face value of all the clad I took to the bank. I&#039;m quite sure at this point she would not have realized any greater dollar value for it given the &quot;fair&quot; offers I&#039;ve heard so far (like the $1.15 for that Indian Head). </p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t necessarily buy the collection because I was purely driven by the idea of making a profit, although, I thought, that might be a possibility at some point. And it still might, I haven&#039;t really reached a conclusion about that yet. I just know I&#039;m done messing with that for the time being. I got to learn about the coin business and that was certainly something I wanted to do given my father is a collector. I got to spend time with my old man and let him teach me what he&#039;s learned over the years. Making the deal helped my buddy out paying for his daughter&#039;s college. So have I lost anything?</p><p><br /></p><p>And I wanted to say I know I probably seem like a pain, but I appreciate your patience with me. I just call things like I see them. It seems we&#039;re probably on the same page about the business side of numismatics in general. There&#039;s a challenge getting to the other side of that 99% line. I&#039;ll read the rules carefully and if I have the time I might post some pictures in the right forums. It still might provide some interesting reading at some point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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