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Message:: [QUOTE="nickelman, post: 107187, member: 4633"]I seen things go both ways. I was in a training class in the late 80's I'd say and was in the Syracuse NY area so attended a coin show on the weekend. I was standing there looking through the dealers stock when an elderly man (Upper 70's maybe 80's) and his teenage grandson came up to the table pulled out a red 2 cent peice and asked what is was worth. The dealer did not have a poker face and just said WOW and called his partner over who had more specialty in the series. They told the man if it graded MS64 if was worth about $1200 and they both agreed it would grade at least MS64. However if it graded MS65 if would worth $10,000+ and they would not make the call and gave him info on how to get it graded by a TPG. They then asked what else he had and he said he had a lot of proof stuff from the 30's, 40's and 50's. They told him first to get a safe deposit box then worry about sending stuff to a TPG. I told them they changed my opinion of coin dealers and I no longer judge them all by the bad ones out there.[/QUOTE]