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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 207173, member: 3813&quot;]If someone asked me if I wanted to buy their coins (&quot;or she was going to take it to a local junk/antique shop&quot;), I&#039;d get a list of everything and ask her what she wants for it.&nbsp; If it&#039;s a good deal, I&#039;d buy it, if it doesn&#039;t seem so, I&#039;d make an offer.&nbsp; Showing people &quot;the red&quot; book and/or other inflated price guides just gives the wrong impression of true worth, and sets people up for disappoinment when they find out what a dealer (or anyone) will offer.&nbsp; Personally, if she took them to a dealer to get an offer... I&#039;d offer to match it and let her know her collection is in the hands of a collector she knows and trusts.&nbsp; Why would she sell it to the dealer and not you?&nbsp; I see no need to offer 10% over.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, all of this assumes it&#039;s something you want.&nbsp; Don&#039;t make the mistake of buying all this stuff just to buy it.&nbsp; I bought years of proof sets (one of those things that tends to make one want to get every one for some unknown reason), before realizing that I&#039;ll probably never get one of each year, and even if I did, I&#039;m not sure it would be the centerpiece of the collection.&nbsp; I mean I have the 70, the 71, the 72, the 73 and years before that, and years after that.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t rare, the condition is nearly the same in every set, and I&#039;ll be long dead before they are worth more than $5.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose I should say that I&#039;m more of a type collector though.&nbsp; I don&#039;t collect one coin of every denomination, P, D, S mints, etc., and really can&#039;t understand why anyone would.&nbsp; I have friends that do that (or try to, he has many, many albums he&#039;s working on and says he&#039;ll probably never finish anything due to it heh).&nbsp; It would drive me crazy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just make sure it&#039;s something you want (the point of all that).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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