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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4174127, member: 101855"]It was the Winter ANA show that was held in Orlando. I went there thinking that it could not be as good as a Winter FUN, but maybe comparable to a Baltimore.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went with the 1839-C Quarter Eagle as the top coin on my list. There were six of them on the floor, with slab grades ranging from AU-50 to MS-62. They were all in NGC holders. Everyone of them had been cleaned, and they were as bright as a piece of brass that had been worked over with “Brasso.” I could see that a couple of them had been decent coins before some idiot ruined them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that they were ruined had no effect on the asking prices. They were priced as if the coins had no problems at all. They ranged up to $22,000 for the “MS-62.” I would not have purchased any of them unless they had been priced at melt. (Well that’s an exaggeration, but the price would have had to been low enough for me to sell the coin on the floor to another dealer because I would not have wanted to come home with any of those coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I had gone there hoping to fill at least one hole in my Classic Head $2.50 and $5.00 sets. This 1838-P $5 was only coin I could find that had original surfaces that was still on my list. The dealer started off with a CAC related price, but came down when I give him a counteroffer which he accepted. I figured the coin graded AU-55.</p><p><br /></p><p>That will be my first and last Winter ANA show up unless it’s within an hour so driving distance. It was not worth the meal and hotel bills. I had heard from other collectors that the Winter ANA was often a misfire, and this proved it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4174127, member: 101855"]It was the Winter ANA show that was held in Orlando. I went there thinking that it could not be as good as a Winter FUN, but maybe comparable to a Baltimore. I went with the 1839-C Quarter Eagle as the top coin on my list. There were six of them on the floor, with slab grades ranging from AU-50 to MS-62. They were all in NGC holders. Everyone of them had been cleaned, and they were as bright as a piece of brass that had been worked over with “Brasso.” I could see that a couple of them had been decent coins before some idiot ruined them. The fact that they were ruined had no effect on the asking prices. They were priced as if the coins had no problems at all. They ranged up to $22,000 for the “MS-62.” I would not have purchased any of them unless they had been priced at melt. (Well that’s an exaggeration, but the price would have had to been low enough for me to sell the coin on the floor to another dealer because I would not have wanted to come home with any of those coins.) I had gone there hoping to fill at least one hole in my Classic Head $2.50 and $5.00 sets. This 1838-P $5 was only coin I could find that had original surfaces that was still on my list. The dealer started off with a CAC related price, but came down when I give him a counteroffer which he accepted. I figured the coin graded AU-55. That will be my first and last Winter ANA show up unless it’s within an hour so driving distance. It was not worth the meal and hotel bills. I had heard from other collectors that the Winter ANA was often a misfire, and this proved it.[/QUOTE]
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