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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1883824, member: 5233&quot;]This is a good reason as to why the coins appear to have been melted.&nbsp; Just like those rings, they figured it was faster to make a smaller profit by sending them to a smelter than it would be to sell them in their cases...with limited space.&nbsp; That limited space has value too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll bet with their new found fame (and fortune)...the only time the cast regularly appears in the shop is when they are filming.&nbsp; My guess is, they have a normal staff there handling day to day with business with the normal knowledge of a pawn shop.&nbsp; Plus, the cast we see on TV has plenty of time to research items prior to filming so they appear &quot;knowledgeable.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They do try and make that point...but there are a bunch of things that don&#039;t add up.&nbsp; For example, one of the coins was a 1903 St. Gaudens Double Eagle.&nbsp; The last time I checked, that coin was minted until 1907.&nbsp; It could be poor reporting...or perhaps the owner really doesn&#039;t know what he had.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Either this is just an example of poor reporting...or again, the owner doesn&#039;t know much about coins.&nbsp; There is no such thing as a classic gold coin &quot;untouched by human hands.&quot;&nbsp; My understanding is...even modern gold such as the First Lady coins are touched by hands when they are packaged.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why not?&nbsp; Your first comment in this post suggests a very good reason why they would have melted them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Several things in this story lead me to believe the collector was not terribly knowledgeable (unless again...it&#039;s bad reporting).&nbsp; It&#039;s entirely possible they were in lower tier slabs.&nbsp; Perhaps if that&#039;s the case, he may have paid too much for them because they were grossly overgraded.&nbsp; Also, some of the coins were moderns and could have been in original government packaging.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not necessarily...I have seen many rare and potentially valuable coins in low end slabs.&nbsp; Often times they are greatly overgraded, damaged, or both.&nbsp; Not necessarily basement slabbers like SGS...but others like SEGS or ANI.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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