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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1251588, member: 24091&quot;]Inclined to agree with you on grading from large coin dealers in general, though I must say, the few coins I have bought from their display ads have been much nicer than most of the other large dealers.&nbsp; Certainly nicer than Paul Simms, or the very worst of them all, Mount Vernon.&nbsp; In the case of the Albanian piece, obviously wasn&#039;t a display ad since its pretty much a one of a kind coin in terms of dealer inventory.&nbsp; It was listed in their &quot;World Gold Coin&quot; section on their website, and it was one of the few that didn&#039;t have a photo so I really had no idea what I was getting into.&nbsp;&nbsp; With the expectation that I could return it if it was whizzed or harshly cleaned, I figured i didn&#039;t have much to lose at the $425 price they had it listed at (I think gold was just under $1500 at the time) so I went ahead and bought it online.&nbsp; I kind of expected an email a day later saying it had already been sold.&nbsp; When I got the coin in the mail a few weeks later, I threw a loup up to it and you can imagine my surprise to see those wonderful little letters P-R-O-V-A(!)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What makes the deal even more unusual, Coast-to-Coast does have some good deals occassionally on US gold; --for instance an 1916-s Half Eagle in NGC58 I got for $475 when the common dates were selling for $425--&nbsp; but generally speaking the great deals are not to be found in their world gold section.&nbsp; Most of the coins in it are priced full-pop, and my only reason for looking at the coins at the time was to see something new and different; -eBay having become so predictable and redundant the past few years in terms of inventory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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