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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1669781, member: 41665&quot;]Coin-grifters are not uncommon. Many in the biz (perhaps most) are little more than pawn-shop fronts it seems.</p><p>That&#039;s a very simple, very shrewd business model. CASH4STUFF, no negotiating. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect books (good quality, 1st ed but not highly collectible famous works) have plummeted far lower than average coins (non PMs.) For example, a used book you might&#039;ve gotten ~$5. for back in 1992 is now worth ~$0.25. A famous (natl tv) local used bookseller is notorious for now offering pennies on the dollar for massive &amp; valuable academic collections: he&#039;ll basically remove a fine European-book library (+$) for what the owner would PAY in salvage cost (-$) with no import or collectible premium given at all. If this is Boston/Cambridge, imagine its even worse in most of the USA. (I may be wrong on this.) </p><p><br /></p><p>The internet is the best alternative, and market price (i.e. eBay) is readily ascertained. Wife and heirs should be able to use GoogleSearch and do abit of math to figure that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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