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Message:: [QUOTE="Numismatist47, post: 898505, member: 24577"]Be extremely careful about buying from these so called coin vault discoveries. If the coins are genuine, they are way overpriced from what you could get the same thing from a dealer, or at a coin show, for. A lot of those "coin vault" hordes, are cheap copies of geniune U.S. Mint produced coinage. The biggest farce is the $50 gold Buffalo clad proof for $19.95 plus $4.95 shipping and handling.  This is not any proof by the Mint's standards and quality control, it's a copy of the genuine article the Mint branch at West Point produces, and the amount of gold(plate mind you) is worth about $1.20 give or take a few pennies.  When I was younger, I was duped into buying the Desert Storm coins, bought two of them, that I was under the impression were genuine U.S. Mint commems. However, they were made in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory or something, and were the crappiest looking things you ever saw.  A $45 lesson for a young collector.[/QUOTE]