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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5284767, member: 27832"]I bought a collection from eBay soon after I got back into the hobby, late in 2010, for somewhere around $1600. (Don't judge, I was enthusiastic, and I had a bunch of money sitting in PayPal from my previous life as an eBay seller.) It included a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/jeffbs-multipart-gtg-extravaganza.235020/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/jeffbs-multipart-gtg-extravaganza.235020/">$10 Liberty, a $5 Liberty, and a $2.50 Indian</a>. I eventually sent them off to ANACS, where they all got details grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the time gold peaked in 2011, those three coins were worth almost as much for melt as I'd paid for the whole set. Didn't stay there long, but today they've regained and exceeded that level. I'm still inclined to keep them, for educational and sentimental value.</p><p><br /></p><p>(The rest of that "collection" was mostly junk, but there was quite a bit of silver. The one other coin I remember from it is an 1878-CC Morgan, AU details, wire-brushed. Value-wise, I don't think I did as badly as I deserved.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 5284767, member: 27832"]I bought a collection from eBay soon after I got back into the hobby, late in 2010, for somewhere around $1600. (Don't judge, I was enthusiastic, and I had a bunch of money sitting in PayPal from my previous life as an eBay seller.) It included a [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/jeffbs-multipart-gtg-extravaganza.235020/']$10 Liberty, a $5 Liberty, and a $2.50 Indian[/URL]. I eventually sent them off to ANACS, where they all got details grades. By the time gold peaked in 2011, those three coins were worth almost as much for melt as I'd paid for the whole set. Didn't stay there long, but today they've regained and exceeded that level. I'm still inclined to keep them, for educational and sentimental value. (The rest of that "collection" was mostly junk, but there was quite a bit of silver. The one other coin I remember from it is an 1878-CC Morgan, AU details, wire-brushed. Value-wise, I don't think I did as badly as I deserved.)[/QUOTE]
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