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<p>[QUOTE="panda, post: 917093, member: 24443"]letting my girlfriend spend around $1000 dollars of silver franklin halves, on cigarettes....but she just took them to the store and got face value for them! lucky person, who got a hold of them for face! and i didn't really let her, her mom gave her a bunch of old coins to give to me and she thought because they were not "that old" they were not worth anything. she wasn't to happy with herself, when i told her how much we could have had!</p><p><br /></p><p>my worst was selling one of my 1899 gold $10 eagles, for $475. the coin was in at the very least au condition! it makes it worse because i had the 1899 $5 and $20, and selling the $10 split the triplets up. my girls mom ended up finding another one in an old jewelry box that was in better shape and was an S mm, that the other two were. so it made the hurt go down a little, other then getting rolled on the deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panda, post: 917093, member: 24443"]letting my girlfriend spend around $1000 dollars of silver franklin halves, on cigarettes....but she just took them to the store and got face value for them! lucky person, who got a hold of them for face! and i didn't really let her, her mom gave her a bunch of old coins to give to me and she thought because they were not "that old" they were not worth anything. she wasn't to happy with herself, when i told her how much we could have had! my worst was selling one of my 1899 gold $10 eagles, for $475. the coin was in at the very least au condition! it makes it worse because i had the 1899 $5 and $20, and selling the $10 split the triplets up. my girls mom ended up finding another one in an old jewelry box that was in better shape and was an S mm, that the other two were. so it made the hurt go down a little, other then getting rolled on the deal.[/QUOTE]
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