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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4085142, member: 57463"]Mint marks and errors once had no value. Not too long ago, "first strike" and "early strike" meant nothing special in the market. Once upon a time, there were five grades of coin with "Uncirculated" being the top. Zero through 70 was just the relative dollar value of Early American Copper according to the kleptomaniac psychologist William Sheldon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, who says what value anything has? Which price guide do you follow? One of my dealer friends has a stock answer for people who wave price guides at him. "You want that price, go to them. This one costs [so much]. (Or: "I am offering [this much].") Of course, people who publish price guides are not really offering those prices buy/sell, but just reporting what other people told them they once bought or sold for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4085142, member: 57463"]Mint marks and errors once had no value. Not too long ago, "first strike" and "early strike" meant nothing special in the market. Once upon a time, there were five grades of coin with "Uncirculated" being the top. Zero through 70 was just the relative dollar value of Early American Copper according to the kleptomaniac psychologist William Sheldon. Besides, who says what value anything has? Which price guide do you follow? One of my dealer friends has a stock answer for people who wave price guides at him. "You want that price, go to them. This one costs [so much]. (Or: "I am offering [this much].") Of course, people who publish price guides are not really offering those prices buy/sell, but just reporting what other people told them they once bought or sold for.[/QUOTE]
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