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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 398472, member: 2972&quot;]The problem is not money, Clembo.&nbsp; It is finding these coins to begin with, and I suspect you are underestimating how hard they are to find.</p><p><br /></p><p>To wit, I&#039;ve been looking for a nice circulated example for TWO AND A HALF YEARS.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found two -- that&#039;s right, two.&nbsp;&nbsp; Actually, I found a third one, but it was priced/graded too high for me to justify.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin it replaced, which cost me $175 when I purchased it in January 2006 from Butternut (Steve Ellsworth):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/miker/image/72703050/medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.pbase.com/miker/image/72702793/medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s how these coins typically look (and remember these are the better coins that COULD be slabbed):</p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/common/search_results.php?Ne=304&amp;Ntt=1835&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles&amp;N=51+790+231+357" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/common/search_results.php?Ne=304&amp;Ntt=1835&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles&amp;N=51+790+231+357" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/common/search_results.php?Ne=304&amp;Ntt=1835&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles&amp;N=51+790+231+357</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As another example, EBAY had a total of 10 bust quarters listed, and not a single one was nice:</p><p><a href="http://coins.shop.ebay.com/items/Bust-1796-1838__coins_W0QQ_nkwZcoinsQQQ5fcatrefZ1QQ_dmptZCoinsQ5fUSQ5fIndividualQQ_flnZ1QQ_mdoZCoinsQ2dPaperQ2dMoneyQQ_pcatsZ11116QQ_sacatZ11963" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.shop.ebay.com/items/Bust-1796-1838__coins_W0QQ_nkwZcoinsQQQ5fcatrefZ1QQ_dmptZCoinsQ5fUSQ5fIndividualQQ_flnZ1QQ_mdoZCoinsQ2dPaperQ2dMoneyQQ_pcatsZ11116QQ_sacatZ11963" rel="nofollow">http://coins.shop.ebay.com/items/Bust-1796-1838__coins_W0QQ_nkwZcoinsQQQ5fcatrefZ1QQ_dmptZCoinsQ5fUSQ5fIndividualQQ_flnZ1QQ_mdoZCoinsQ2dPaperQ2dMoneyQQ_pcatsZ11116QQ_sacatZ11963</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So look around, and let me know how many circulated, original-looking, eye-appealing, problem-free examples in F to XF you find, and I&#039;ll float you.&nbsp; However, I don&#039;t expect that you&#039;ll find many, and when you do, you&#039;ll notice how expensive they are -- and I suspect we&#039;ll fall just a bit short of gazillionaires.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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