Reversing course in quality vs quantity
topstuf
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I've gone BACKWARDS. USED to have a MS type set (Dansco depth) that was a STUNNER. Sold it in 1980 to 4 customers who were BEGGING me to break it up. Had one HELLUVA volume day.
Today, I am hoarding, accumulating, ratholing, settin back, stashing....etc.....NICE ..... mid grade EARLY dollars and seated dollars. Also all nice looking VG-XF keys in all series. These always FLEW away at shows when I had the shop.
Now that I'm retired (welllllllll...........) I am looking at the liquidity of things and these are my choices.
I .....DO.....like the monsters and used to chase em. But now I think the most expensive coin I have is either the hi relief or the 1800 half eagle in 60. The rest of what I am actively SEEKING is orig color, unmessed with (slabbed preferably by PCGS, NGC, ANACS) $200-$2000 coins.
Sorta "budget nice" if that makes sense.
And it is far easier for me to get a couple six packs from selling a moderate coin than have to buy the brewery or chance the dump of the market as is a possibility.
The coins I sold were before slabs and at that time all made market 65 EASILY. I still think I could replace that set (with the exception of 2 coins) for about 30% of what I got for it in a 4 man bidding war.
The day I sold it, I had just remarked to the wife that I would not PAY the prices those coins were "worth" so I sold instead.
Age is a factor also I think.
Old decrepit geezers who have good collector coins have always been welcome in most shops.
Today, I am hoarding, accumulating, ratholing, settin back, stashing....etc.....NICE ..... mid grade EARLY dollars and seated dollars. Also all nice looking VG-XF keys in all series. These always FLEW away at shows when I had the shop.
Now that I'm retired (welllllllll...........) I am looking at the liquidity of things and these are my choices.
I .....DO.....like the monsters and used to chase em. But now I think the most expensive coin I have is either the hi relief or the 1800 half eagle in 60. The rest of what I am actively SEEKING is orig color, unmessed with (slabbed preferably by PCGS, NGC, ANACS) $200-$2000 coins.
Sorta "budget nice" if that makes sense.
And it is far easier for me to get a couple six packs from selling a moderate coin than have to buy the brewery or chance the dump of the market as is a possibility.
The coins I sold were before slabs and at that time all made market 65 EASILY. I still think I could replace that set (with the exception of 2 coins) for about 30% of what I got for it in a 4 man bidding war.
The day I sold it, I had just remarked to the wife that I would not PAY the prices those coins were "worth" so I sold instead.
Age is a factor also I think.
Old decrepit geezers who have good collector coins have always been welcome in most shops.
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