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<p>[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 314878, member: 7957"]I do not generally pay much attention to the world coins section, but I do follow Liberia. I spent 5 years over there (while they were still civil). An "ivory Charlie" (door-to-door peddler of artifacts) came around with bunches of the Kissi pennies. I wound up buying 200+ of them. I don't remember for sure, but guessing at about $40.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I got settled back in the USA (late 70's), I found a hole-in-the-wall coin shop and wound up consigning the pennies to the shop. They did not manage to sell any for the first month. About 6 weeks later, I stopped by to see if they had any luck selling them and they were gone. Never heard from them since. What brought this to mind was an email from Centsles offering them for sale at ~$6 each. At those prices, That shop walked off with over $1000 of mine</p><p><br /></p><p>Still have about 20. Here is a picture of a few.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rlm's cents, post: 314878, member: 7957"]I do not generally pay much attention to the world coins section, but I do follow Liberia. I spent 5 years over there (while they were still civil). An "ivory Charlie" (door-to-door peddler of artifacts) came around with bunches of the Kissi pennies. I wound up buying 200+ of them. I don't remember for sure, but guessing at about $40. After I got settled back in the USA (late 70's), I found a hole-in-the-wall coin shop and wound up consigning the pennies to the shop. They did not manage to sell any for the first month. About 6 weeks later, I stopped by to see if they had any luck selling them and they were gone. Never heard from them since. What brought this to mind was an email from Centsles offering them for sale at ~$6 each. At those prices, That shop walked off with over $1000 of mine Still have about 20. Here is a picture of a few.[/QUOTE]
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