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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Sims, post: 1963362, member: 59688"]No one returned any of the first four sold. The article stated that the first four sold for $20,000.00, that is $5,000.00 each plus each of the four people were given one purchased later to replace the coin they sold by the dealer who bought them. So, the dealer actually paid $6,240.00 each for those four coins and I think whoever buys any one them probably has more money than intelligence as he/she will probably never be able to get what they paid for it in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>First coin sold does not mean squat, what does matter is the first coin struck. That is the one which made history and unfortunately we will probably never know where it ended up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first four are graded Proof 70 and the next two are 69's makes you wonder if there is some sort of favoritism going on or, if PCGS felt that because of the intense publicity surrounding these they could not afford to grade them any lower than that. Really, how can anyone actually differentiate a 69 from a 70?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Sims, post: 1963362, member: 59688"]No one returned any of the first four sold. The article stated that the first four sold for $20,000.00, that is $5,000.00 each plus each of the four people were given one purchased later to replace the coin they sold by the dealer who bought them. So, the dealer actually paid $6,240.00 each for those four coins and I think whoever buys any one them probably has more money than intelligence as he/she will probably never be able to get what they paid for it in the future. First coin sold does not mean squat, what does matter is the first coin struck. That is the one which made history and unfortunately we will probably never know where it ended up. The first four are graded Proof 70 and the next two are 69's makes you wonder if there is some sort of favoritism going on or, if PCGS felt that because of the intense publicity surrounding these they could not afford to grade them any lower than that. Really, how can anyone actually differentiate a 69 from a 70?[/QUOTE]
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