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<p>[QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 23912008, member: 100459"]I've mentioned this before, but, please be patient with me. I got half of my father's coin collection (My brother got the other half). Anyway, when I got my father's coins, it spurred and interested in coin collecting. After going through the collection, each time I looked at one of the coins, I would quickly pick up another coin. There were several hundred coins and I grew to love them. It took me about 2 years or more to set up my coin collection. I asked a lot of collectors how I should protect and store the collection. I decided to use a 2x3 coin holder. I would make labels for each coin so I wouldn't have to get a magnifying glass to look at the date and condition of each coin. After I finished, decided that I wanted gold coins. I went to a local dealer and looked at his coins on display. My first purchase of a gold coin was an 1895 Liberty Head, Motto Above Eagle, One-Half Ounce Gold Coin. I looked at it several minutes. It was RAW, but it looked like it was in a good condition, so I decided to by it. I bought it on November 5, 2009. I paid $675 then.</p><p>A few weeks later, I saw a 1904 $20 Liberty Head, Motto Above Eagle One Ounce Gold Coin December 5, 2009. It, too, was in good condition. I liked it and bought it on December 5, 2009, for $1,275.</p><p>My dealer told me he was going to a show the next weekend and told me he could have the graded for me and he could save me quite a bit by him using his dealership.</p><p>Sure enough, he was a man of his word. The grading cost me about $50 for both of them.</p><p>Now comes the hard part. The 1895 was graded by NGC MS61. But then I saw that the 1904 was given a "details" grade... UNC DETAILS, Obverse Scratched.</p><p>The detail offered to buy them back for what I paid and he would also pay for the grading.</p><p>I decided to keep them. I also bought the MMIX (2009) Ultra High Relief, One Ounce Gold Coin. It came with the wood box the Mint had kept it in with the padding and the book, as well as the outer box that the inner box, coin, etc., had been shipped in. I looked at the coin, turning it over and over again. I was enamored by it all. I bought it with all its paraphernalia. I paid for it with my heart and not my head, and and paid way too much for it all. $1,500, graded MS 68.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 23912008, member: 100459"]I've mentioned this before, but, please be patient with me. I got half of my father's coin collection (My brother got the other half). Anyway, when I got my father's coins, it spurred and interested in coin collecting. After going through the collection, each time I looked at one of the coins, I would quickly pick up another coin. There were several hundred coins and I grew to love them. It took me about 2 years or more to set up my coin collection. I asked a lot of collectors how I should protect and store the collection. I decided to use a 2x3 coin holder. I would make labels for each coin so I wouldn't have to get a magnifying glass to look at the date and condition of each coin. After I finished, decided that I wanted gold coins. I went to a local dealer and looked at his coins on display. My first purchase of a gold coin was an 1895 Liberty Head, Motto Above Eagle, One-Half Ounce Gold Coin. I looked at it several minutes. It was RAW, but it looked like it was in a good condition, so I decided to by it. I bought it on November 5, 2009. I paid $675 then. A few weeks later, I saw a 1904 $20 Liberty Head, Motto Above Eagle One Ounce Gold Coin December 5, 2009. It, too, was in good condition. I liked it and bought it on December 5, 2009, for $1,275. My dealer told me he was going to a show the next weekend and told me he could have the graded for me and he could save me quite a bit by him using his dealership. Sure enough, he was a man of his word. The grading cost me about $50 for both of them. Now comes the hard part. The 1895 was graded by NGC MS61. But then I saw that the 1904 was given a "details" grade... UNC DETAILS, Obverse Scratched. The detail offered to buy them back for what I paid and he would also pay for the grading. I decided to keep them. I also bought the MMIX (2009) Ultra High Relief, One Ounce Gold Coin. It came with the wood box the Mint had kept it in with the padding and the book, as well as the outer box that the inner box, coin, etc., had been shipped in. I looked at the coin, turning it over and over again. I was enamored by it all. I bought it with all its paraphernalia. I paid for it with my heart and not my head, and and paid way too much for it all. $1,500, graded MS 68.[/QUOTE]
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