Key to this post, EDUCATION. I know when you first start collecting you wish to buy all of these cool coins you see, but please trust us, OP, we have been there, done that, have the dumb t-shirt from our buying mistakes. The one constant truth in coin collecting is knowledge is POWER. The more knowledgable you are, the fewer bad coins you will buy. Spend time here, on other educational websites, and read some good books on coins. Then find a good dealer who can show you the differences between good and bad coins. It truly is well worth it long term. I wish I would have done it when I started out, like most of us "old timers" do.
Yopu think the folks that bid this one up bothered to read or even look at what they were bidding on? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc I wonder what the buyers remorse will cough up when they receive their coin paper weight?
Everybody has overpaid at one time or another, whether they admit it or not. The best advice is to read and study first, and then buy. Hence, the "books before coins" advice that is so true and important.
People are overpaying right now on Ebay so tons of people overpay, like bidding away well over $10 on some common standing quarter that looks obviously cleaned because it is white-faced but is marked XF though I just don't see it. I bought a couple 40%ers yesterday for 8 cents over melt but silver is up today so looks like I underpaid by today's standards.
