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<p>[QUOTE="Tall Paul, post: 25313113, member: 114635"]I was helping friends cash out the husband's coin collection/accumulation. The wife visited esty and asked me why I had valued a common date silver dime at bullion value when the same coin was on etsy for a couple of grand. Fortunately they were smart people and after sending the wife to few sites like PCGS and sharing a Red Book with her she understood. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of what they had was circulated silver. I went through everything and pulled out the better date US coins. There some Roman bronzes and a bunch of other odd ball items. I intended to do the job for free. I put aside some things I wanted to buy and they gave them to me as a gift plus a $500 check. I sold all of their coins for over $40,000.Some were sold as junk silver and some received a premium for being better dates. I also know that one of the local thieving shops had offered them a little less than $4,000 for everything and luckily, they backed off from that shop.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tall Paul, post: 25313113, member: 114635"]I was helping friends cash out the husband's coin collection/accumulation. The wife visited esty and asked me why I had valued a common date silver dime at bullion value when the same coin was on etsy for a couple of grand. Fortunately they were smart people and after sending the wife to few sites like PCGS and sharing a Red Book with her she understood. Most of what they had was circulated silver. I went through everything and pulled out the better date US coins. There some Roman bronzes and a bunch of other odd ball items. I intended to do the job for free. I put aside some things I wanted to buy and they gave them to me as a gift plus a $500 check. I sold all of their coins for over $40,000.Some were sold as junk silver and some received a premium for being better dates. I also know that one of the local thieving shops had offered them a little less than $4,000 for everything and luckily, they backed off from that shop.[/QUOTE]
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