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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3355916, member: 80804"]Definitely a Littleton flip-ticket. Littleton had (and may still have for all I know) an "ancient coin of the month club" sort of promotion running in the 90's. The coins were generally decent, although not spectacular, and definitely overpriced given general market values of the time. I "subscribed" for a short while - you can always return anything you get from Littleton so the only risk was the price of postage to send things back - which I did just about every time.</p><p>Etsy has certainly changed since I sold there in the mid "aughts" - it seems almost indistinguishable from ebay now. I did pretty well selling dateless buffaloes for a couple of years, back when there were almost no other coins on etsy. When it came to an end it was a total end, no "tapering off" of sales - someone had evidently undercut my price and successfully siphoned-off all of the potential market for dateless buffaloes.</p><p>There is a hilariously funny book you might be able to find at amazon or somewhere similar: "Regretsy" (sorry, I don't recall the author's name) - I, and my daughter who at one time sold on, and had introduced me to etsy both laughed until we cried reading it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3355916, member: 80804"]Definitely a Littleton flip-ticket. Littleton had (and may still have for all I know) an "ancient coin of the month club" sort of promotion running in the 90's. The coins were generally decent, although not spectacular, and definitely overpriced given general market values of the time. I "subscribed" for a short while - you can always return anything you get from Littleton so the only risk was the price of postage to send things back - which I did just about every time. Etsy has certainly changed since I sold there in the mid "aughts" - it seems almost indistinguishable from ebay now. I did pretty well selling dateless buffaloes for a couple of years, back when there were almost no other coins on etsy. When it came to an end it was a total end, no "tapering off" of sales - someone had evidently undercut my price and successfully siphoned-off all of the potential market for dateless buffaloes. There is a hilariously funny book you might be able to find at amazon or somewhere similar: "Regretsy" (sorry, I don't recall the author's name) - I, and my daughter who at one time sold on, and had introduced me to etsy both laughed until we cried reading it.[/QUOTE]
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