Why do people buy Empty GSA Morgan Dollar Boxes with Certificates

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• Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭

  June 15, 2008 8:03PM

  Because they previously bought a GSA dollar without the box or with a damaged box.
  
  The certificate number is based on the date of the coin. 1882s have a certificate where the forst two numbers are 82, 1883s begin with 83 and so on.

  Successful B/S/T transactions: As Seller: PascoWA (June 2008); MsMorrisine (April 2009); ECHOES (July 2009) As Buyer: bfjohnson (July 2008); robkool (Dec 2010); itsnotjustme (Dec 2010) TwoSides2aCoin (Dec 2018) PrivateCoin Jan 2019

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• ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭

  June 15, 2008 10:43PM

  All of the above, I suspect.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 15, 2008 11:06PM

  Sometimes, especially early on when the TPG craze hit... the coins were slabbed and the boxes discarded... so many lack the 'provenance'... which is important to some collectors. Cheers, RickO

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• garsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭

  June 15, 2008 11:53PM

  The Chinese needed examples so they can start knocking them off (copying them).

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• TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 16, 2008 12:20AM

  Packrats do not need a reason. It's self explanatory.

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  June 16, 2008 12:46AM

  
  
  << <i>The Chinese needed examples so they can start knocking them off (copying them). >>
  
  
  
  There are already many copies of the GSA Certs out there. I know a dealer in IN that had them custom printed. You really can't tell them from the ones that shipped with the coins.

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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