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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;William Burnham, post: 3504921, member: 103249&quot;]Well, the local coin shop guy said that the values of double eagles, even ones in perfect shape, are way down except for a few rare dates.&nbsp; He said that this is because of the flood of them from European banks.&nbsp; He said he would only pay the melt price for the two I brought in (about $1230) and would sell double eagles only for slightly over that (about $1260).&nbsp; He also said that the two I brought in had been &quot;lightly cleaned.&quot;&nbsp; I asked him if he had any double eagles for sale for $1260 and he showed me a rather beat up Liberty one from the 1870s.&nbsp; He said he had no others in the shop.&nbsp; At the same time, on HA.com, the lowest auction sale price within the last month was $1440 and many of them went for a lot more than that.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure what to make of all this, except that the local guy obviously has an incentive to run down the price of any coin he is buying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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