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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Yokozuna, post: 961365, member: 26087&quot;]Akojen (Amy) and I just finished sorting through our flea market finds from today and... WE WIN!&nbsp; I paid $120 and got well over $400 worth of coins.&nbsp; Most of them in VG to F condition.&nbsp; We picked up an 1865 2 cent piece in VF for $15, an 1876 CC dime in F12 for $10, a roll of Indian Head Cents for $40, 15 War Nickels for $15 in VF to AU and 40 V Nickels in G to VG for $1 each!&nbsp; The one true winner we have is a 1900 V Nickel in a full EF-40 for... yep, the same ONE DOLLAR as all of the other Vs!&nbsp; It&#039;s also a good strong strike with all of the letters E PLURIBUS UNUM very bold.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Amy tried her hand at grading, for the first time, using the book &quot;Grading Coins by Photographs,&quot; and she is a GREAT grader!&nbsp; She hit the mark on everything she looked at.&nbsp; She also said that she was having fun doing it!&nbsp; (She&#039;s hooked!&nbsp; Yay!)&nbsp; She made a comment on one of the Indian Cents that &quot;A bear had chewed on it.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>She wants to find a Flying Eagle Cent to carry as her &quot;Lucky&quot; coin.&nbsp; The guy had 3, but 2 were porous and one had most of the date missing because of damage.&nbsp; He wanted $50 for all 3, but she wants one that&#039;s a little better than what he has.&nbsp; The other coin we &quot;passed&quot; on was an 1825 Capped Bust 50 Cent piece in G-4 for $55, but it was damaged on the face with 2 deep scratches.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>She also said that the seller doesn&#039;t have any idea of what he&#039;s doing.&nbsp; While all of the coins he had were lower grade, I have to agree with her.&nbsp; He&#039;s not checking his coins.&nbsp; I talked him down on every thing by 50% to 75% of what he had marked.&nbsp; I even made an offer on the V Nickels that he said &quot;no&quot; to, but when I put down the holder with the coins he said, &quot;Oh, okay.&nbsp; One dollar each.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only bad part of the day was the temperature.&nbsp; It was 77 when we got there and 92 about an hour later!&nbsp; Texas in the summer can be killer!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben... (and Amy!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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