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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1171922, member: 39"]I was simply referring to what you wrote in your first post, about "wondering what coins and rolls one could take with them to flip for a good profit or at least better then here in the states" ... Does not have anything to do with gouging; the question is quite simply, how would you sell them? And that is why I wrote that (unless you have some rare or expensive piece) you won't be able to sell them to dealers at a coin show for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, eBay could be a viable alternative. Now whether €5.52 is a good price for US coins with a face value of $2.07 ... guess that if you bought from a dealer or at a show, you would pay more. But I suppose that in this case the seller sold whatever he wanted to get rid of as a lot, and the buyer wanted some of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for high grades, in my opinion "serious" collector do want better grades here too. But the price span is not as extreme as (with quite a few coins) in the US. We don't have 70 point scales, and hardly anybody uses TPG services.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1171922, member: 39"]I was simply referring to what you wrote in your first post, about "wondering what coins and rolls one could take with them to flip for a good profit or at least better then here in the states" ... Does not have anything to do with gouging; the question is quite simply, how would you sell them? And that is why I wrote that (unless you have some rare or expensive piece) you won't be able to sell them to dealers at a coin show for example. Sure, eBay could be a viable alternative. Now whether €5.52 is a good price for US coins with a face value of $2.07 ... guess that if you bought from a dealer or at a show, you would pay more. But I suppose that in this case the seller sold whatever he wanted to get rid of as a lot, and the buyer wanted some of these. As for high grades, in my opinion "serious" collector do want better grades here too. But the price span is not as extreme as (with quite a few coins) in the US. We don't have 70 point scales, and hardly anybody uses TPG services. Christian[/QUOTE]
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