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Message:: [QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 1673419, member: 42034"]Usually this happens, with coins dealers in my experience.  I'll give one example.  In 1999 we bought a house & I decided to sell some of my US coins.  There was a full run of US gold, both Indian types & liberties, ranging from gold $1 to $20, except for my $10 pieces which I decided to keep.  The Indian half eagle was a hand-picked ms-62 but all the rest were 63 & 64 grade slabs with one of the $20's being said to be actually an ms-65 & in need of reslabbing.  In addition there was a collection of Bust, Seated, and Barber halves with the minimum grade being slabbed 63 and some of the pieces being much nicer & better dates.  I brought them to a major coin dealer & was offered $2,000 for everything!  I ended up consigning them to auction, some of the $20's & gold dollars & seated halves did NOT sell and were returned to me. Of those coins that did sell, after auction commissions were deducted I got around $10,000 which was a fair price at the time.[/QUOTE]