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<p>[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 2768464, member: 19165"]When doing business, leave any relationships out of it. Offer a fair price for fair coins. If you offer more, you're gifting him money (hey, if you want to do that, go ahead), if you offer less, you're stealing from him (which, again, is your choice). </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is absolutely impossible to say. What is your goal with these coins? Are you going to be keeping them as part of your collection? I would say that you should then pay a fair retail price for them. Are you going to be reselling them with the intention of profit? Decide what reasonable profit you desire, and then make an offer based on that (and be clear that this is your intention). </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Absolutely irrelevant, especially if the coins were bought a long time ago. Any price you negotiate needs to be based on current market prices. Sure, he might have bought that $20 Saint for $25 a few decades ago. You know what it is worth today - and you have to use today's value in any calculations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 2768464, member: 19165"]When doing business, leave any relationships out of it. Offer a fair price for fair coins. If you offer more, you're gifting him money (hey, if you want to do that, go ahead), if you offer less, you're stealing from him (which, again, is your choice). This is absolutely impossible to say. What is your goal with these coins? Are you going to be keeping them as part of your collection? I would say that you should then pay a fair retail price for them. Are you going to be reselling them with the intention of profit? Decide what reasonable profit you desire, and then make an offer based on that (and be clear that this is your intention). Absolutely irrelevant, especially if the coins were bought a long time ago. Any price you negotiate needs to be based on current market prices. Sure, he might have bought that $20 Saint for $25 a few decades ago. You know what it is worth today - and you have to use today's value in any calculations.[/QUOTE]
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