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<p>[QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 7847546, member: 100459"]I know it doesn't mean a hill of beans, but this was the first gold coin I bought. </p><p>I had just gotten my father's coins from his collection and I was enamored by this coin from a local dealer. I spoken a long time with him and I felt that he was very reliable. I didn't buy that coin right away. I went home dug into my dog eared Red Book and a couple of other books and magazines. After all, I was about to make a sizeable purchase. When I bought finally decided to buy it, I asked the dealer what kind of grade should I be looking at. He told me that it would probably only be an MS61. At the same time that I bought this coin, I bought another. He said that it too, would probably only get an MS61. He was getting ready to go to a show and he told me he would be glad to have the two coins graded. He hit it on the nose on my second purchase. It was an 1895 $10 Liberty Head. He was surprised that the 1904 $20 Liberty Head got a Details grade and he offered to buy it back from me. I wouldn't even have to pay him the cost of having the 1904 graded. Every once in a while he calls me and lets me know he has gotten something in that I might like.</p><p>I know I couldn't get the Details grade taken off the slab, and I'm too chicken to break into it. But I still don't like the Details grade, if that's what one would call it. Buy the way, I don't and won't have another coin graded. If they are sold, it will be sold by my son when I'm dead and gone and then I'll find out who graded my coin and I'll get him or her on the other side of the pearly gates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 7847546, member: 100459"]I know it doesn't mean a hill of beans, but this was the first gold coin I bought. I had just gotten my father's coins from his collection and I was enamored by this coin from a local dealer. I spoken a long time with him and I felt that he was very reliable. I didn't buy that coin right away. I went home dug into my dog eared Red Book and a couple of other books and magazines. After all, I was about to make a sizeable purchase. When I bought finally decided to buy it, I asked the dealer what kind of grade should I be looking at. He told me that it would probably only be an MS61. At the same time that I bought this coin, I bought another. He said that it too, would probably only get an MS61. He was getting ready to go to a show and he told me he would be glad to have the two coins graded. He hit it on the nose on my second purchase. It was an 1895 $10 Liberty Head. He was surprised that the 1904 $20 Liberty Head got a Details grade and he offered to buy it back from me. I wouldn't even have to pay him the cost of having the 1904 graded. Every once in a while he calls me and lets me know he has gotten something in that I might like. I know I couldn't get the Details grade taken off the slab, and I'm too chicken to break into it. But I still don't like the Details grade, if that's what one would call it. Buy the way, I don't and won't have another coin graded. If they are sold, it will be sold by my son when I'm dead and gone and then I'll find out who graded my coin and I'll get him or her on the other side of the pearly gates.[/QUOTE]
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