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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 505067, member: 13650"]No. Good subject line though. The other night, I had 3 channels selling coins. And they sit there and talk everything to death. Then pause for a while. Then somebody awkwardly yells something out and it starts over again. 30 minutes later, maybe they move on to something else.</p><p><br /></p><p> The Obama coins available now are insane. I've seen de-faced Kennedy halves with Obama prints on them. The dollars of course. I even saw on one channel, what was 'highly touted' as the ONLY LEGAL TENDER Obama coin on the planet! And they had all 4,000 of them. A $5 colored coin from Liberia that was stamped with Obama on it and colored. Reverse was proof. WAS IN AN NGC HOLDER LABELED 'GEM PROOF'!! Also came with a DVD of his inauguration speech. ALL for $29.95! </p><p><br /></p><p> Can I interest you in a 1978 mint set? No!? Well how about 40 years worth of mint sets!? Would you like a PF69 Thomas Edison commemorative? No!? Well how about 20 years worth of MS69 commemoratives all in one batch for the low, low price of 600.00!? That's basically what I saw going on. Very uninteresting. </p><p><br /></p><p> If they cut the prices in half and started offering something different up every 30 seconds, I could handle it. Otherwise, it's just more bad tv I'm forced to pay for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 505067, member: 13650"]No. Good subject line though. The other night, I had 3 channels selling coins. And they sit there and talk everything to death. Then pause for a while. Then somebody awkwardly yells something out and it starts over again. 30 minutes later, maybe they move on to something else. The Obama coins available now are insane. I've seen de-faced Kennedy halves with Obama prints on them. The dollars of course. I even saw on one channel, what was 'highly touted' as the ONLY LEGAL TENDER Obama coin on the planet! And they had all 4,000 of them. A $5 colored coin from Liberia that was stamped with Obama on it and colored. Reverse was proof. WAS IN AN NGC HOLDER LABELED 'GEM PROOF'!! Also came with a DVD of his inauguration speech. ALL for $29.95! Can I interest you in a 1978 mint set? No!? Well how about 40 years worth of mint sets!? Would you like a PF69 Thomas Edison commemorative? No!? Well how about 20 years worth of MS69 commemoratives all in one batch for the low, low price of 600.00!? That's basically what I saw going on. Very uninteresting. If they cut the prices in half and started offering something different up every 30 seconds, I could handle it. Otherwise, it's just more bad tv I'm forced to pay for.[/QUOTE]
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