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<p>[QUOTE="lardan, post: 24883001, member: 138663"]You know you can't go to such a large coin show as the Fun Show and not see some strange things. There was this seller that had many Memorial Cents for sale. The asking prices were all posted on the coin flips and all were red in good shape with asking prices $4.00 to $10.00 for non proofs and $10.00 to $15.00 for the proofs. Made me rethink the value of my set of these and the ones I saw in flips were common, nothing special.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, the most amazing thing I saw was a 1944 cent. Don't remember the mint and as you know it is what is called a shell cent. It was certified MS 64 in a NGC holder, but the amazing thing it also had a CAC green bean on it. I don't know what it costs to send it to CAC for evaluation, but on top of the NGC certification with the CAC it seems like way more than one to hope to get in return. I have a set of these in MS65 and the average price for mine was less than 10 for each, three I bought as a year set for twelve dollars. There was no price on this, and I didn't ask because the seller was quite busy.</p><p><br /></p><p>This just seemed very strange to me. I wished I would have waited to ask the price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lardan, post: 24883001, member: 138663"]You know you can't go to such a large coin show as the Fun Show and not see some strange things. There was this seller that had many Memorial Cents for sale. The asking prices were all posted on the coin flips and all were red in good shape with asking prices $4.00 to $10.00 for non proofs and $10.00 to $15.00 for the proofs. Made me rethink the value of my set of these and the ones I saw in flips were common, nothing special. But, the most amazing thing I saw was a 1944 cent. Don't remember the mint and as you know it is what is called a shell cent. It was certified MS 64 in a NGC holder, but the amazing thing it also had a CAC green bean on it. I don't know what it costs to send it to CAC for evaluation, but on top of the NGC certification with the CAC it seems like way more than one to hope to get in return. I have a set of these in MS65 and the average price for mine was less than 10 for each, three I bought as a year set for twelve dollars. There was no price on this, and I didn't ask because the seller was quite busy. This just seemed very strange to me. I wished I would have waited to ask the price.[/QUOTE]
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