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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 4414946, member: 42034"]<span style="color: #660000">APMEX : no good for clean appearing coins</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Bought some silver Franklins and Kennedys from APMEX to offset my dwindeling supply; mostly gotten out of circulation. The Apmex coins were horrible. For whatever reason they put their silver halves thru an automated counting machine, of maybe countless counting machines possibly designed for use on the later nickel clad coinage. Anyhow the coins, particularly the Franklins, were all scratched up from the machines. They were nothing like the coins I'd gotten from circulation and even the few coins I bought from live dealers at shows (at bullion prices).</p><p><br /></p><p>I think they advertized VF, but really 17 of 20 coins in each roll were essentially "cull grade". These could not possibly be sold anywhere else except as scrap. I wrote them advising that I wanted to return the coins but they wrote back saying "non-returnable". If you'll look you'll find APMEX has a lot of complaints online for customer service, or lack thereof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 4414946, member: 42034"][COLOR=#660000]APMEX : no good for clean appearing coins[/COLOR] Bought some silver Franklins and Kennedys from APMEX to offset my dwindeling supply; mostly gotten out of circulation. The Apmex coins were horrible. For whatever reason they put their silver halves thru an automated counting machine, of maybe countless counting machines possibly designed for use on the later nickel clad coinage. Anyhow the coins, particularly the Franklins, were all scratched up from the machines. They were nothing like the coins I'd gotten from circulation and even the few coins I bought from live dealers at shows (at bullion prices). I think they advertized VF, but really 17 of 20 coins in each roll were essentially "cull grade". These could not possibly be sold anywhere else except as scrap. I wrote them advising that I wanted to return the coins but they wrote back saying "non-returnable". If you'll look you'll find APMEX has a lot of complaints online for customer service, or lack thereof.[/QUOTE]
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