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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gopher29, post: 279655, member: 5379&quot;]What is the deal with damaged coins?&nbsp; Books tend to say that damaged coins are worth &quot;considerably less&quot; than undamaged specimans.&nbsp; And I recently visited a website displaying its grading standards and stating that damaged coins are &quot;rarely worth anything&quot;.&nbsp; However, as many of us have discovered, sometimes purchasing a damaged coin is the only way to acquire an affordable &quot;key date&quot; speciman.&nbsp; And it appears that the buying public feels the same way as I see damaged coins selling for big bucks on Ebay all the time.&nbsp; So how does one know how much a damaged coin is really worth and would you ever buy one?&nbsp; If so, how much less would you offer over an undamaged coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a couple of recent Ebay sales of damaged coins that sold for big $$$</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-KEY-DATE-1909-S-VDB-Lincoln-Wheat-Cent-Nice-Coin_W0QQitemZ270164607497QQihZ017QQcategoryZ39456QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-KEY-DATE-1909-S-VDB-Lincoln-Wheat-Cent-Nice-Coin_W0QQitemZ270164607497QQihZ017QQcategoryZ39456QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-KEY-DATE-1909-S-VDB-Lincoln-Wheat-Cent-Nice-Coin_W0QQitemZ270164607497QQihZ017QQcategoryZ39456QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-S-VDB-LINCOLN-CENT-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ320157858567QQihZ011QQcategoryZ39456QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-S-VDB-LINCOLN-CENT-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ320157858567QQihZ011QQcategoryZ39456QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-S-VDB-LINCOLN-CENT-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ320157858567QQihZ011QQcategoryZ39456QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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