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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3340914, member: 19463&quot;]I have a guess.&nbsp; Someone owed it and realized it was a keeper so they did not sell it for 50 years or so.&nbsp; There are at least three people on this list, I believe, that have owned a coin for 50 years or more.&nbsp; In my case, I will have owned my longest term coin a century when I am only 115 or so.&nbsp; Wish me luck.&nbsp; The question is why that person did not have a plan for the divestment of his coins better than in a pile of random stuff.&nbsp; I wonder every year how many collections of ancient coins pass on to heirs that know no better than to take them to a general antique dealer who knows less about them than the family.&nbsp; I wonder every year how many &#039;only one known&#039; coins are destroyed or taken to the dump with all the rest of silly old grandpa&#039;s stuff.&nbsp; Be glad the coin came back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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