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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 185781, member: 4781&quot;]I do not have a financial relationship of any kind with HSN.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, the company that sells the president medallions and coins on HSN simply pays me for the medallions that I mint.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He did when I was on the show, of course.&nbsp;&nbsp; The shows are completely unscripted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some shows will present information that other shows don&#039;t have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How is that different that everything else advertised on TV ?&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no difference.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everything on TV is hyped.&nbsp;&nbsp; Buy a brand new car and as soon as you drive it off the lot, it depreciates by 40%.&nbsp;&nbsp; Do I feel sorry for everyone that buys a new car or a diamond ring at the mall with 5x markup ?&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course not.&nbsp;&nbsp; They are grown-up and they can make decisions for themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>You won&#039;t be able to get UNC rolls of P &amp; D president dollars at your local bank (maybe one or the other, but not both P AND D at the same location).&nbsp;&nbsp; It was hard to get any solid-UNC rolls of Sacagawea dollars when they first came out.&nbsp; &nbsp; If you order the president dollars from the Mint, you will have to pay shipping plus a mark-up above face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The PCGS, NGC, and ICG coins sold on HSN are graded to the same standards as other coins - they don&#039;t get special grades.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well that is a worst-case scenario.&nbsp;&nbsp; But whose to say the certified rolls don&#039;t end up being worth more than face value ?&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of the state quarter UNC rolls are worth more than $10.&nbsp;&nbsp; And how much gasoline and time would it take driving around to different banks trying to find one that even has UNC rolls of President dollars ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Plated state quarters are not representative of the <i>sophisticated</i> coin collecting community.&nbsp;&nbsp; But there are a lot of casual channel surfer collectors out there who don&#039;t care about the same things sophisticated collectors do, obviously.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe some of those folks will eventually become sophisticated collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no such thing as a sophisticated coin collector who started out that way.&nbsp;&nbsp; I remember my first coins were a set of circulated, buffed-up, and over-hyped Roosevelt dimes, sold to me by the coin section of a large department store.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some things never change, they just look different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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