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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3094654, member: 10461&quot;]Well, at least it&#039;s a full red BU, right?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Technically,</i> (and to my surprise) that&#039;s a $6.90 coin per <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=lnccntmo&amp;searchtype=any&amp;searchtext=fmv&amp;search=any&amp;nmcode=10746300&amp;guide=prices&amp;guide2=pricesms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=lnccntmo&amp;searchtype=any&amp;searchtext=fmv&amp;search=any&amp;nmcode=10746300&amp;guide=prices&amp;guide2=pricesms" rel="nofollow">Numismedia</a> in MS64 RD (and $22.80 in MS65 RD), though I suspect you&#039;d be hard-pressed to find anyone who&#039;d pay those prices in the real world.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t pay 99 cents for it, either, but as far as eBay listings go, that&#039;s not as insane as many I&#039;ve seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hypothetically, IF I were working on a Dansco album set of modern Lincolns and had trouble finding a nice 1977-D, I <i>might</i> pay the 99 cents, if there was no coin shop with tubes of &#039;em nearby.&nbsp; It is sometimes hard to find good cheapos on eBay, because the shipping takes a big bite, and sellers have to price accordingly.&nbsp; And this seller is paying the shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(*I had this difficulty back when I was collecting Irish predecimal coins.&nbsp; Many of the more common dates had catalog values of only about $1.00 or so, but they were much harder to find online than the <i>scarcer</i> dates, and I sometimes had to pay $3.00 or so to fill a $1.00 hole in my album!&nbsp; Because few people were selling the cheapos at catalog value- the shipping was always a factor.&nbsp; Not to mention I had to order a few of them from Ireland!)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>So I think this one is not quite so nuts as it might seem at first glance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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