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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 264603, member: 8012&quot;]Here&#039;s something that has always interested me.&nbsp; I call CoinTalk my home and I haven&#039;t seen a thread on this since joining in February.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who has been involved with &quot;Coin Approval&quot; services before?</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I started collecting coins in about 1970 up to 1983.&nbsp; This was in SUPER rural Minnesota.&nbsp; Back then, the only way for a boy like me to collect coins was through the &quot;approval services&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought most of my coins through the Littleton Coin and Stamp Company.&nbsp; I guess I was on the &quot;foreign coin&quot; list, because everything was from Jamaica or the Ukraine or whatever and I didn&#039;t know that you could change it - being all of 12 years old.&nbsp; When I restarted collecting a couple of years ago, I re-discovered all these old coins I had bought in the 70&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>SURPRISINGLY many had gone up significantly in value.&nbsp; In fact, I have sold about half of them on e-bay for 10-20 times what I paid (and don&#039;t forget that Littleton marked them up for me!!).&nbsp; I really don&#039;t remember the exact coins, but the ones that stick out were several series of &quot;WON&quot; coins from Korea.&nbsp; They were all in UNC.&nbsp; I actually sold them to someone in Korea on e-bay - I thought it was funny that he was buying my 1974 littleton coin purchase and I now had to send it BACK to Korea.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Of course, there are some that are worth less or nothing.&nbsp; I also bought stamps back then and they&#039;re all worth basically nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>SO, what are your experiences with Coin Approval Services?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what the rules of the board are, but it&#039;s probably best to just make comments and not mention any company in your post (especially if you&#039;re going to bash them).&nbsp; I know that I mention Littleton in my post, but I think they were pretty much the ONLY one out there then - at least the only big one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the purpose of this thread is to get the goods and bads of approval services and it is NOT to bash any bad ones that may be out there.&nbsp; That is for another thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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