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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1332511, member: 19463"]On December 20, I ordered a book (Hartill, Cast Chinese Coins) from Amazon books and selected their free Super Saver Shipping.  The computer estimated delivery on December 29 which was fine with me since I have much too much to do this week and was not giving the book as a Christmas gift.  My last mail delivery Saturday included the book - 4 days or 5 days ahead of schedule.  I have always been of the opinion that paying extra for faster delivery is a waste but this was a bit of a shock.  I doubt it would have worked out that way had the book been a gift for my wife. The problem is that the post office did not also deliver some free time so I have barely looked at the book.  I have a few hundred cash accumulated over the years mostly from the back of Frank Robinson's lists so I have plenty of ID work to do.  As far as I know all of my coins are the most common varieties and I'll be lucky if I find even a hundred different since most were bought as batches (just why did I want a lot of ten Kai Yuan?) but my current state of mind does not allow buying cash for high prices just because they have some extra dot or squiggle.  I would appreciate hearing from any others who have interest in low end cash (and/or might want to trade duplicates).  I figure I'll have photos to share eventually but if I don't get back to doing my Christmas Day photos, I'll be in trouble so it may not be for a few days.[/QUOTE]