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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1414765, member: 31533"]I don't know VAMs very well, but sometimes the value you place on something (what is retail, so to speak: it's what you see it selling for on EBay, for example) is no-where near what you will get if you sell them. Basically, the dealer or buyer is going to be someone who will have to sell them down the road. Your's may or may not be valuable, I don't know, but if you got someone to offer you 1900.00 to 2100.00 for those, that may be the best you can get without selling them individually. The dealer/buyer who has to sell them (and possibly get them slabbed to sell them) has to buy for less than they are worth retail. And the amount of a discount varies from coin to coin, as well as dealer to dealer. I'm not sure that you were given a raw deal when you were offered that. About the only way you can maximize the value to you is to list and sell them all on your own or to send them off to ANACS to get them slabbed. That costs money as well as time. And if you want someone to evaluate each coin and give you more money for each (something more approximating retail), you may not get that from a dealer. If someone has to spend 6 or 8 hours doing that and not have any guarantee that they will be able to buy them from you, and they've never worked with you in the first place, it is a bit much to ask someone to do. </p><p><br /></p><p>As others said, all Morgans are VAMs. VAM stands for Van Allen Morgan, meaning that it is a recognised varient of the morgan for each year/mintmark (in really simple terms).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1414765, member: 31533"]I don't know VAMs very well, but sometimes the value you place on something (what is retail, so to speak: it's what you see it selling for on EBay, for example) is no-where near what you will get if you sell them. Basically, the dealer or buyer is going to be someone who will have to sell them down the road. Your's may or may not be valuable, I don't know, but if you got someone to offer you 1900.00 to 2100.00 for those, that may be the best you can get without selling them individually. The dealer/buyer who has to sell them (and possibly get them slabbed to sell them) has to buy for less than they are worth retail. And the amount of a discount varies from coin to coin, as well as dealer to dealer. I'm not sure that you were given a raw deal when you were offered that. About the only way you can maximize the value to you is to list and sell them all on your own or to send them off to ANACS to get them slabbed. That costs money as well as time. And if you want someone to evaluate each coin and give you more money for each (something more approximating retail), you may not get that from a dealer. If someone has to spend 6 or 8 hours doing that and not have any guarantee that they will be able to buy them from you, and they've never worked with you in the first place, it is a bit much to ask someone to do. As others said, all Morgans are VAMs. VAM stands for Van Allen Morgan, meaning that it is a recognised varient of the morgan for each year/mintmark (in really simple terms).[/QUOTE]
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