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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2282324, member: 19463&quot;]Please remember that a price written on a tag has nothing to do with what a coin sells for.&nbsp; I regularly go to a dealer at shows who seems to specialize in stock from other dealers who gave up on their ridiculous prices.&nbsp; I still have the flips handy from the last couple shows.&nbsp; One coin was $240 without any haggling but the printed tag from a better known dealer read $395.&nbsp; Another was marked $295 but came with me for $125.&nbsp; The third dropped from $95 to $50.&nbsp; Two other tags quoted Sear catalog prices but were sold for much less.&nbsp; Last year I searched acsearch and found my coin listed as sold by an auction for double what I paid.&nbsp; In some cases these may be coins that were won but never paid but some may just be numbers made up by dealers I don&#039;t buy from directly.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatic Fine Arts was a business name used by Joel Malter for a while before he sold it to Bruce McNall.&nbsp; The box 777 address is a sign of a coin from that period. I bought coins in the 1960&#039;s from Malter at that address when he was dealing under his own name.&nbsp; I have several time recommended here reading McNall&#039;s autobiography, <u>Fun While It Lasted</u> still available for one cent plus postage used from Amazon. </p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0786868643/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_1_olp?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448585901&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=fun+while+it+lasted" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0786868643/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_1_olp?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448585901&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=fun+while+it+lasted" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0786868643/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_1_olp?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448585901&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=fun+while+it+lasted</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The first chapter talks about his time working for Malter.&nbsp; I also suggest picking up any NFA catalogs you can get cheap or free.&nbsp; A few of them are great books worth good money if you like to look at coins you can&#039;t own.&nbsp; I still enjoy every coin I bought from them (the dregs of an NFA sale was high end for me).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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