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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 583265, member: 17753&quot;]<b>Nope, no shills, for real -- and how do I know...?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>A story to tell:</p><p><br /></p><p>As related in other threads, I discovered that the US Mint has two shops here in DC (well, a lobby shop at their main building and a kiosk at Union Station).&nbsp; So, I went to see what they had -- and they had mostly the same stuff that you can get online.&nbsp; But I also noticed they had Harrison rolls, and that the Harrison rolls were listed as sold out at the web site.&nbsp; So, that night, I went home, and saw the prices Harrison rolls were getting on eBay (at that point, around $80).&nbsp; I went right back to the shops, got 10&nbsp; rolls (5 each of P and D), and flipped them all on eBay.&nbsp; The 2009-D rolls went for $70 to $90 each, the 2009-P rolls went for $120-$190 each.&nbsp; (Note: I went back a few days later -- and they had sold out at the shops).</p><p><br /></p><p>So -- three questions/observations:</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Why are P&#039;s going for so much more than D&#039;s (very consistently so), when the P&#039;s are more rare?</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Why would <b>anyone </b>pay as much as they did for my rolls? </p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; Why is the price <b>still </b>skyrocketing?&nbsp; (I wanted to sell mine quickly, because I thought that saner minds would prevail and the prices would come back down -- like they have for 2009 cents, like they did for 1950-D nickels, and seemingly everything in between.&nbsp; I still <b>do </b>think the price will come down, but, obviously, not yet!)&nbsp; And, no, I&#039;m not kicking myself at all for selling too soon and not making more of a killing than I did.&nbsp; I&#039;m lucky and happy, not greedy.</p><p><br /></p><p>So . . . I can tell from personal experience, these aren&#039;t shills.&nbsp; These are folks desperate to get their hands on mint rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;ve noted before -- putting the words &quot;sold out&quot; and &quot;rare&quot; together in an ad, and people go nuts.&nbsp; This is, by far, the lowest mintage Pres $1 coin thus far.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Hey, for all I know, the guys that got them from me for $120 are flipipng them!&nbsp; More power to them! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty crazy, eh?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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