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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 658512, member: 18157&quot;]Kent,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A lot depends on what you&#039;re looking for. If you&#039;re looking for investment grade coins, it&#039;s best to find reputable sellers and stick with them. I&#039;ve received some very nice coins from Great Southern, Best Chrystal, TFCN, HCC, DonV, Chuck Frujanic (aka Pink Panache)...to name a few. There are some very reputable sellers out there, but everyone knows them and bids accordingly.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you&#039;re looking for a diamond if the rough, they&#039;re out there, but you have to be more careful. As a general rule, don&#039;t bid on anything you don&#039;t understand unless you&#039;re willing to take a loss. It&#039;s like buying stock in a company you haven&#039;t researched.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are sellers that (perhaps honestly) overstate the condition of their coins a grade or two. If you know this and bid accordingly, you can get some nice coins at reasonable prices. HSTURN is an example of this type of seller.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Other sellers will purposely misrepresent coins. Warning signs are fuzzy, overlit pictures that show faux mint luster and little detail. These sellers usually dip lower grade AU to UNC coins and pass them off as MS-65++. TARHEELR is an example of this type of seller.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve gotten some of my best &quot;diamonds in the rough&quot; from sellers that really don&#039;t know what they have. They may sell other types of merchandise and a friend asks them to list some coins they inherited. They take poor pictures and describe the coins as &quot;good&quot; when, in fact, they&#039;re uncirculated (good to them).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you&#039;re looking to put together some circulated coin sets as a hobby, it&#039;s tough to get ripped off too bad on eBay (probably not at all). If you&#039;re looking to make an investment in coins, stick with PCGS or NGC graded, brilliant uncirculated, key date coins from reputable dealers (personal opinion).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hope this helps...Yakpoo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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