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Saint Collectors, are PQ coins virtually gone?
Sierra
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Have any of you had a difficult time finding a REAL PQ Saint lately? I mean come on!
I have been searching for one common date, choice PQ 66 for over two years now and I just cannot locate anything worthy of purchase. I have attended some shows here in CA but the coins available have been primarily 64's and 65's masquerading as 66's. About 6 dealers have sent me examples that they claimed were PQ but in actual fact they were anything but, and the coins found their way right back to them. In defense of one dealer, I was offered a PQ 67 which I bought in a heartbeat. Are all the choice PQ 66's locked up with collectors? beacuse the dealers dont seem to have any.
I have been searching for one common date, choice PQ 66 for over two years now and I just cannot locate anything worthy of purchase. I have attended some shows here in CA but the coins available have been primarily 64's and 65's masquerading as 66's. About 6 dealers have sent me examples that they claimed were PQ but in actual fact they were anything but, and the coins found their way right back to them. In defense of one dealer, I was offered a PQ 67 which I bought in a heartbeat. Are all the choice PQ 66's locked up with collectors? beacuse the dealers dont seem to have any. 0
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Take coin "A". Coin A is what you would call an "eye appealing coin". Coin A is raw and is eye appealing.
Coin A is now in a PCGS MS63 slab. Coin A still looks exactly like it did before so it must still be eye appealing.
Coin A is now in an NGC MS64 slab. Coin A still looks exactly like it did when it was raw so it must still be an eye appealing coin.
Coin A is now in a PCGS MS65 slab. Coin A still looks exactly how it did when it was raw so it is still an eye appealing coin.
Coin A will cost you more money now because it's in a PCGS MS65 slab as compared to when it was raw but none of that changes the fact that coin A is an eye appealing coin.
1908 $20 St. Gaudens. With motto. NGC graded MS-66 Star
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