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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 420100, member: 8033&quot;]People collect odd stuff Gopher. What may be odd to you and I may not be to them though.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have a customer that I recently met who has the PCGS LOWEST grade Morgan set in Registry. This was not an accident. He has worked hard on this set actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we buy if I see EXTREMELY worn, original pieces I set them aside for him.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have another customer that just completed his set of holed Peace Dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand there are many &quot;investors&quot; that never took the time to really learn a lot about coins or the way the market works. Yes, may be geniuses in other fields but put them in coins and they don&#039;t do the homework.</p><p>My older brother could have fallen into this category. Luckily he asked me first.</p><p><br /></p><p>When ebay was much younger and smaller I did pretty well with low dollar stuff. 30% margin was pretty much the norm. Well over 100% ws not uncommon with paper money. So now my brother wants to get into it (after making fun of my hobby for years BTW).</p><p><br /></p><p>I told him fine. Study it for a few years and get back to me when you know something. End of that. I am still the only active collector and sometimes seller in my family.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated earlier it only takes a few &quot;bidiots&quot; (like that term) to jack up the price. Many times these are the same people that think they are getting a great deal on a &quot;self slabber&quot; coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the shop we currenty have about 5 MS66 Morgans in our case. All graded by NAC. They&#039;re priced at $30 each. We all know why. AU-MS coins that may have been cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not even worth wasting our time with them. They walked in the door, the boss bought them cheap and broke somebody&#039;s heart. It happens all the time to those that DO NOT do a bit of homework. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I DO respect the better respected TPGs to an extent but don&#039;t just go by the number on the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Information is available and it&#039;s a shame that more don&#039;t take advantage of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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