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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 6332992, member: 66&quot;]Remember these are the prices Mehl was PAYING to people with no numismatic knowledge.&nbsp; These are NOT the prices a collector would be paying a dealer for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mehl did a LOT of advertising back then and did thing like widespread advertising to buy 1913 V nickel for $50, which back then the average person though of as a LOT of money.&nbsp; It did bring in some nice coins to buy, but what it REALLY did was sell copies of that buying price list for $1 apiece.&nbsp; And he sold them by the truckload for decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>The catalogs are still readily available.&nbsp; There are currently close to 80 of them up on ebay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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