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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;History Student, post: 68420, member: 4032&quot;]Yeah, and ten bucks would BUY 300 (three hundred) of your favorite candy bars at Sav-On Drugs in Norwalk, CA.&nbsp; I found out the catalog value after the fact and sale of the coins.&nbsp; Then it was in the Red book of around $60.00 in my childhood memory bank.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A few years later my mother&#039;s older brother was collcting second trust deeds in Watts, CA, for my grandfather.&nbsp; Then one of the &quot;unhappy&quot; PAYEES decided to use a crowbar on my poor uncle&#039;s head instead of giving him the green stuff we call money.&nbsp; Let&#039;s just say I was not overly sad at the time. </p><p><br /></p><p>RICK, you are really assute.&nbsp; You should be a detective.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the 1970s we had that above slab company but the fly-by-night others were the ones that BURNT the hobby for the investors got, shall we politely mention, got taken to the cleaners.&nbsp; The coins when sold were high graded: and when bought back low graded.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS and NGC might stop that type practice in the future&nbsp; and just let the marketplace decide.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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