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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 24736641, member: 59677&quot;]I have a huge collection of them - it&#039;s my addiction. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m always in the market for them if they&#039;re inexpensive. Especially Barber coins. Why, given I hate the Barber series? Well, that&#039;s a story...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was a local dealer (I think I&#039;ve posted this before, but) of the type who never sold anything (He made his money trading pre-33 gold coins). He would set up at local shows with four cases, with the same coins in exactly the same sequence,&nbsp; show after show after show. He never sold anything because he wanted full PCGS/NGC retail regardless of the company that slabbed the coin. If he happened to sell something you could tell because the entire sequence would change.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had a nice buffalo in ACG plastic that he wanted $### for.</p><p><br /></p><p>As he neared (semi-)retirement he finally started making a few deals. I asked about the buff and he gave me the standard $###. I told him I couldn&#039;t do that. He finally said, I&#039;m into it for $### make me an offer. So I made him an offer that would cover his cost plus about 10 years of simple interest at 4%. And he took it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later at the same show, I found a Trade$ in ACG and grabbed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my second pass, I sit and talk to the first dealer and tell him he missed the Trade$. He says to me &quot;What are you going to do with all those ACGs you have? You should give them to me to sell.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I said no, but then went and looked at my accumulation of ACG plastic and put together a 20th-century type-set, a 21st-century type-set (up to when ACG stopped slabbing), and even a little bit of a 19th-century type-set.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582401[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never bought Barber coins - I dislike the entire series. But now I find myself looking for them because of the holes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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