Entertaining DWN blog about Doug's first ANA as a dealer in 1982

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• JamesM Posts: 757 ✭

  July 28, 2012 6:41AM

  Great read thank you for the link.

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 28, 2012 6:47AM

  That's a funny story!
  
  Two bits to add. First, the market for "investment quality coins" was probably down more like 80% at the time. (Just my guess.) Second, Sconyers' buying literally turned the market around on a dime. Hard to believe for us today, when $10 million might be barely enough to buy a few trophy coins, but even $1 million was huge money back then.

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• Coinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 28, 2012 7:17AM

  That is a great story, it reminds me of that story in the Ford catalogs where JJF ripped into Harry Forman for trying to sell him crappy inventory (some Hawaiian notes, I think it was).
  
  It just goes to show that the great dealers have to pay their dues like everyone else.

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• coinkat Posts: 23,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 28, 2012 7:41AM

  Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

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