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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2540788, member: 77639&quot;]It&#039;s a shame that the folks were treated this way.&nbsp; Unless the company or companies that sold them the coins made false claims, there is not much recourse ... willing buyer argument.&nbsp; Don&#039;t know how information on coin valuation can be made much more public than it is now.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t take much effort to find out how much ASE&#039;s are worth.&nbsp; Still, especially for some older folks, the internet is foreign territory.&nbsp; Was recently told by an older collector that the internet is something for his grandkids to use.&nbsp; Would have been useless to try to push him into it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This summer, my wife&#039;s uncle, who&#039;s in his 90&#039;s, was looking to buy a dozen double eagles to give to various male relatives.&nbsp; He was contemplating buying from a company that advertised in a Sunday paper supplement.&nbsp; He really wanted coins from his birth year, but they were steering him to some AU&#039;s from the 1850&#039;s for a little over $3000 per coin.&nbsp; The prices weren&#039;t outrageous, but not that good either, and he wouldn&#039;t have gotten his birth year.&nbsp; I was able to find him a better deal, and he bought PCGS MS64 saints minted in his birth year for less than $1700 per coin.&nbsp; I had him deal directly with the coin dealer.&nbsp; There is no way I wanted to be a financial intermediary for multiple reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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