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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rte, post: 24732878, member: 78199&quot;]From what I gathered by talking to the guy, he loaned his friend some money and took this as collateral.</p><p>After a longer hold time than he wanted he started asking around to see what it was worth.</p><p>As people started to look it over he then really looked into the scratch, previous thinking it wasn&#039;t on the coin itself but lint or something else.</p><p>Pretty much everyone said the same thing. Shame it&#039;s ruff but love the Era.</p><p>I told him about the local gold and silver shop and said he might try over there ( the place doesn&#039;t have one out on a shelf or any US gold for that mater ) the seller looked somewhat interested in that option... here&#039;s where I was a little surprised I was at the gold and silver store yesterday, talked to the owner and told him about the interaction with the guy showed him the pictures and he said that the guy was in the shop last month ( interesting ) the owner recalled offering something like $1700 ( gold was $100 more at the time)</p><p>The guy at the coin meeting has a good pokerface <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> he didn&#039;t flinch when I recommended the gold and silver store <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <b>I&#039;ll make a mental note of that for the future.</b></p><p>I talked to the seller after the meeting for about a half hour...nice guy, pretty smart ( retired disability) dabbles in a lot of collector stuff and seems to not need the money.</p><p>He&#039;s into the 1863-S for $2000.</p><p>I told him looks like a nice pocket piece <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> was I wrong <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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