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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hiho, post: 770475, member: 21869&quot;]I have always been a big fan of the 1915-S Panama Pacific Exposition commemorative coins, the silver half dollar is my hands down favorite from the series and I found a very nice example certified by PCGS as AU-58. But my steal of the year was the $2.50 Pan-Pac gold piece which is extremely rare with less than 7000 coins minted. I never thought I could afford one.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lo and behold I found one on eBay being offered by an Oregon pawn shop in a 2x2 flip. It looked real and I won it for about $400, quite a bit of money for me as I am not rich.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It arrived, I looked it over and it sure appeared real. I weighed it and the weight was right on the money. It looked lightly cleaned but for the money I expected at least that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I sent it to ANACS (this was before NGC slabbed cleaned coins) and it came back as &quot;AU-55 Details - Ex-Jewelry/Cleaned&quot;. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As an AU-50 example is worth about $1500 I think this qualifies as a steal.....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/hihoaudio/pan-paccomp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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