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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2739882, member: 27832&quot;]That pawn shop along my way home from work has mastered the art of intermittent reinforcement (giving you a reward only once in a while).</p><p><br /></p><p>A few weeks back, I found that they&#039;d put out <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/you-never-know-what-is-gonna-go-through-that-door.293311/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/you-never-know-what-is-gonna-go-through-that-door.293311/">an 1895-O Morgan dollar</a>, priced the same as all the others from the batch. So, of course, I&#039;ve been going back almost daily -- and finding very little, other than one little baggie of five war nickels a bit below melt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, there was nothing much new in the &quot;coins&quot; counter, but the &quot;gold coins&quot; counter had a few new arrivals -- 10g and 20g gold bars, a Krugerrand, and an Indian half-eagle, reverse up, obverse (and price) down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I asked to see the half-eagle -- I can&#039;t judge grades on these worth a darn, but it didn&#039;t look too bad. I peeled the sticker (about 25% over melt) back so I could see the date:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]625189[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as I saw that date, I flipped it back over and looked <i>very</i> closely at the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]625190[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Gulp. I talked them down a bit on price, but I was <i>not</i> walking out without this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hairlines weren&#039;t nearly as obvious in hand as they are in these photos. I was hoping it might make AU, but expecting XF; after looking under magnification, it looks like a details coin. So I probably won&#039;t be able to put another zero after the price I paid, but I shouldn&#039;t have any trouble turning a nice profit. And the shop has earned at least another month or two of daily visits. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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