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Message:: [QUOTE="Treashunt, post: 303843, member: 6763"]Paul:  Personally, I see nothing wrong with making a buck or two on a coin.  Whether you hold it for a year or 6 hours, you are selling a coin to someone who will appreciate owning it.  I have sold coins in the past, and my family won't let me do it any more, because I act as tho I am losing a child.  I moan & groan as I seal the package.  I guess that I am the same way with my Red Books & Blue Books, I have tons of duplicates and even sold a box of dups at one time, and I made a nice profit on them....but I still miss them.  I do own one of the ugliest 1st edition, 1st printing Red Books in existance, and yet I can't bring myself to sell it, even tho I have several that are near mint. However, if I ever do sell it, I will make a profit on it, or not sell it!  Sure, unlike coins, I cannot dip the books, but I can clean them up and make them more attractive. Still, is that bad of me? I have a collection of old books and periodically dust them, use furniture polish on the bindings to keep them soft so that the bindings won't split and crack.  Is that cheating someone if I someday sell them? I think not.I do have an 1893 Barber half dollar that is solid black. I am going to send it to NCS to 'conserve' it and then hopefully it will be slabable. Right now it is as unattractive an AU-58 as any coin in existance -- and has one of the strongest strikes that I have ever seen, yet it needs help... and it will someday get the help that it deserves.  Same with your coin, pre-cleaning it was ugly and unattractive. Now, it is a wow cameo SMS, and that is a really scarce coin.  Good luck with your sale, if you decide to sell it, or......who knows you may decide to fall in love wit hit.[/QUOTE]

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