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Would you crack open an OGP Proof slab...

MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
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If you felt that one of the coins would net you several hundreds of dollars on the open market for a collector?

How many have done this and would you do it in today's volatile market?

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,776 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm intrigued. Looking forward to hearing more.

    peacockcoins

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why not? Unless you are a hoarder of OGP stuff. As the saying goes...Money talks ... bs walks...
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What's OGP?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What's OGP? >>


    Original Government Packaging
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YES.


    Hoard the keys.
  • tcmitssrtcmitssr Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭
    Generally, I hold all of my stuff and don't sell.

    If I knew though that I had something, inexplicitly, now worth that kind of money.....I'd be selling now and taking the profit, given where the economy is heading in terms of direction.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
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    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



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  • KCCKCC Posts: 129
    image
    -Ken
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've never done it...but I would.
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think you may be able to use the word
    open
    instead of crack open
    as they are able to be opened without cracking
    LCoopie = Les
  • woodwalkerwoodwalker Posts: 297 ✭
    Without a doubt.
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the one coin is worth so much, surely the full set is worth at least as much. I'd keep the entire set intact as sell as a whole...

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i've done it from 1950 and on, it's really not a big deal.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If you felt that one of the coins would net you several hundreds of dollars on the open market for a collector? >>



    Why not just sell it in its packaging, and thus net the hundreds of dollars w/o severing the coin from its history?
    --

    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭


    << <i>image >>




    I had not intended to post enen pichers just yet, still debating on 'cracking' open the holder it is in.

    I tend to agree with a majority of folks about just doing it, but I would like to add that because 1 coin in the whole set may be worth multiples of a hundred, does not necessarily mean the others will bring that much to the mix.

    Take the modern 1995 - S silver proof set- The Kennedy in a 70 DCAM can bring you a few hundred $$ but the balance even in a 70 DCAM may not bring in that kind of money based on year and mintage. The penny and nickle were in both the sets so values did not increase as they do for silver. Then you have the clad set, that needs to be taken into account as well.

    It is what it is.

    and yeah I'm going to crack it but not today.

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