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<p>[QUOTE="ccarroll, post: 2161149, member: 34167"]Okay, I'll do my best to respond, but keep in mind that I'm a total newbie, so I'm not up on the language, and my judgment is, well, questionable. I'm just guessing at the VF based on what I've read and been told about other coins. I posted in other forums here about, for instance, my frustration with trying to sell an Austrian coin here in NYC. I naively thought that there would be tons of reputable dealers in Manhattan, and tons of informal collectors with coin clubs that might advise me - but that's not the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've tried to do a little research - sitting in a Barnes & Noble with a half-dozen books in my lap - but it's not leaving me much smarter than when I began. The coins have definitely been circulated, but not damaged. I went experimentally to my first coin show at the beginning of the year, and if I remember correctly, I think I was offered about $300 or less for these. It if might retail for $1000, then $300 seems awfully low to me. I haven't shopped these around in NYC yet, but when I tried with the Austrian coin, the offers were even worse than the coin show. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not pawn shops, Beef1020, but a couple of dealers in the jewelry district on 47th, plus Brigandi where they were pretty curt and uninterested, and Paul Bosco, who's very reputable, who was courteous but not much interested, plus Stacks. They're mostly shrugging everything off as not worth much above bullion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, I guess the "cc" has no special weight in terms of making it more or less valuable?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ccarroll, post: 2161149, member: 34167"]Okay, I'll do my best to respond, but keep in mind that I'm a total newbie, so I'm not up on the language, and my judgment is, well, questionable. I'm just guessing at the VF based on what I've read and been told about other coins. I posted in other forums here about, for instance, my frustration with trying to sell an Austrian coin here in NYC. I naively thought that there would be tons of reputable dealers in Manhattan, and tons of informal collectors with coin clubs that might advise me - but that's not the case. I've tried to do a little research - sitting in a Barnes & Noble with a half-dozen books in my lap - but it's not leaving me much smarter than when I began. The coins have definitely been circulated, but not damaged. I went experimentally to my first coin show at the beginning of the year, and if I remember correctly, I think I was offered about $300 or less for these. It if might retail for $1000, then $300 seems awfully low to me. I haven't shopped these around in NYC yet, but when I tried with the Austrian coin, the offers were even worse than the coin show. Not pawn shops, Beef1020, but a couple of dealers in the jewelry district on 47th, plus Brigandi where they were pretty curt and uninterested, and Paul Bosco, who's very reputable, who was courteous but not much interested, plus Stacks. They're mostly shrugging everything off as not worth much above bullion. Meanwhile, I guess the "cc" has no special weight in terms of making it more or less valuable?[/QUOTE]
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