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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;asciibaron, post: 265006, member: 8566&quot;]i worked the Vienna, VA show this weekend and was really disappointed in the lack of coins available in the grades I was looking for - a prime example was Mercury dimes in MS65FB.&nbsp; I bought a total of 1 coin - a 1946 Walking Liberty half in MS63 and sold 5 mercury dimes.&nbsp; I sold the dimes for exactly what I paid, which is better than loosing money. My Mercury short set was a mixture of AU sliders and MS coins - nothing better than MS65FB.&nbsp; I decided to sell off the lesser grade coins and set the grade for the set at MS65FB, except the 1945, of which I have a lovely MS65 example.</p><p><br /></p><p>The weekend wasn&#039;t a total loss, but it wasn&#039;t very fun cooking away in the heat after the A/C couldn&#039;t handle the heat.&nbsp; My next show is the November Vienna show followed by the Baltimore show - hopefully I&#039;ll be able to find some better grade Mercury dimes and some silver Jefferson&#039;s to finish off those sets.&nbsp; I&#039;ve already started researching Newfoundland coins and looked at quite a few nice grade examples.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I made some new acquaintances and had a few words of wisdom bestowed upon me - the best was &quot;it&#039;s called coin collecting, not coin buying&quot; after I opined having money to spend but nothing to spend it on.&nbsp; The search goes on...</p><p><br /></p><p>-Steve[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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