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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 24555169, member: 73489&quot;]<b><font size="6"><span style="color: #0000ff">Sad Day For Saints: </span></font></b> Last week was something I never experienced nor wanted to experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to sell one of my Saints. <img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/sad.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/sad.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/sad.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t want to....but I was busy with our club&#039;s resumption (after 3 years) of our annual huge space forum and expo mid-month...3 years of Covid cancellations and it was pretty much 12-14 hour days from early last week through the early part of this week.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Net-Net, I couldn&#039;t scrounge up some PT consulting work or investment counseling and when I finally had time to see the status of my checking account -- thinking I was still close to $1,000 or so -- <b><i>turned out I was OVERDRAWN and NEGA</i></b><i><b>TIVE !! </b><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/ohmy.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from screwing up my automatic payments that are going to have to re-hit automatically or be re-submitted manually, <b><i><span style="color: #ff0000">I needed cash -- and FAST. </span></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>So....I made the difficult decision to part with my <b><span style="color: #0000ff">1915-S MS-63 OGH</span></b> that I picked up at FUN 2020.&nbsp; A common coin but one I kinda liked despite the black specks.&nbsp; OGH label nice to have (as I would find out).&nbsp; I don&#039;t have too many Saints so parting with one was really tough but it was either this one or a 2018 AGE Proof that I also bought at FUN 2020.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t want to sell my 1st purchase, my 1924 MS-65 or my other ones also common or my more valuable 1923-D.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6"><span style="color: #00b300">Some Good News </span></font></b>(for those long the coins already, as opposed to looking to buy now I guess <img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/laugh.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />):&nbsp; <i><b>premiums for even common TPG Saints are strong.....the OGH helped too</b>....</i>I went to my LCS who always treats me fair, buying or selling.&nbsp; He and his asst. looked up the price on some iPad and probably consulted the Grey Sheet or something with modern pricing.&nbsp; I had paid only a slight premium to bullion back in 2020.....about $1,675 or so when gold was about that price (my premium paid, if any, was in the 3% less gold in the coin).</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #00b300">I got $2,300 for the coin </span></b>with gold listed on his chalk board at $1,980.&nbsp; <img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/thumbsup2.gif.f00bfac3dcf480e6b685e52aa825bbdb.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, a nice profit never felt worse. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I&#039;ll get a chance to buy it back in the future.........<img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/smile.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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