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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 623388, member: 17753&quot;]<b>Hey -- let&#039;s move on!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s move on past the debate between JC and the others.&nbsp; Nobody&#039;s going to convince anybody to change there mind at this piont.&nbsp; I learned a whole lot in the first 50-100 messages or so, but the noise-to-signal ratio is getting worse.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And I thank everybody for their nice comments.&nbsp; As far as the coin goes -- I&#039;ve not taken anything personally or gotten discouraged.&nbsp; As I mentioned: it&#039;s not my coin anyway, and I&#039;m in a win-win situation.&nbsp; If it&#039;s only worth $20, I can buy it.&nbsp; If it&#039;s worth $350, my friend will be happy.&nbsp; (And to the poster who suggested I try to purchase it as a filler -- I&#039;d love to, but I really can&#039;t.&nbsp; I have two teenagers soon to go to college).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I&#039;d like to move on to is, actually, a question from the original post (imagine that!), some 100+ messages ago, which was: what should I do now?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The current owner (after I told him of this discussion) told me he&#039;s in no hurry, and suggested I have it looked at in person by somebody -- either a coin dealer (I don&#039;t really know any), a coin show (no major ones around here that I know of), or send it off to a grading service -- to determine grade and get an official pronouncement of whether it&#039;s a &quot;P&quot; (which I think it is using my 8x loupe, which shows more than the 2D pix I posted) or &quot;S&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, thoughts, anyone?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(And I can&#039;t tell how how much I appreciate all this free advice, which I presume, I hope, is useful to others when/if they run into a key-date kind of coin)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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