Haven't had anything awful since I mostly sell at auctions, but I've had more than only dealer bark loudly at me that they don't pay no premium for any toning when I was simply showing coins in my registry while on my phone (they asked me what I collected, and I would show photos). Even I was was selling, they would no longer be my choices.
I heard about a dealer who had a banker in Brattleboro, Vt walk into his shop around 1990 with a large group of currency that ended up being worth six figures; the dealer drank himself into an early grave from the profits, so in that case the banker was the one who "ripped" it.
I have had major dealers who "wrote the book" on a particular series make an offer on a rare certified coin and then have another dealer offer me 50% more; and there was still a lot more money to be made on it even with that strong buy.
You hear many excuses like "I have nowhere to go with it"; even if it is certified and cac they find problems, or that grading is "an insider racket".....
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Haven't had anything awful since I mostly sell at auctions, but I've had more than only dealer bark loudly at me that they don't pay no premium for any toning when I was simply showing coins in my registry while on my phone (they asked me what I collected, and I would show photos). Even I was was selling, they would no longer be my choices.
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Unfortunately there are so many of these stories like this one on how little a family was offered for numismatic currency: https://www.littletoncoin.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Display|10001|29555|-1||LearnNav|1866-20-Dollar-Gold-Certificate-Held-by-One-Family-for-Four-Generations.html
I heard about a dealer who had a banker in Brattleboro, Vt walk into his shop around 1990 with a large group of currency that ended up being worth six figures; the dealer drank himself into an early grave from the profits, so in that case the banker was the one who "ripped" it.
I have had major dealers who "wrote the book" on a particular series make an offer on a rare certified coin and then have another dealer offer me 50% more; and there was still a lot more money to be made on it even with that strong buy.
You hear many excuses like "I have nowhere to go with it"; even if it is certified and cac they find problems, or that grading is "an insider racket".....