I noticed alot of the 2008 Silver Eagle coins are selling for big bucks now, and I've also noticed that the coins pictured are not actually the error coins. I received my error coins directly from the mint and my wife and I have been sitting back waiting for the news to break. Over the past three days we have been watching (to our delight) these coins sell for three hundred bucks and more. However when I looked at the auctions today, I noticed that many of the coins pictured as error coins are not actually the error coins. This is just a word up to all of you, if you want to see what makes the error coin different check this out: http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/news/ViewArticle.aspx?IDArticle=1016 Careful bidding to all of you!
Hi1227jimmyt; Talk about RIPOFFS, I went to a large flea market in Pontiac, Mi. yesterday and watched a guy sell a coin to an antique dealer, (he needed money) the guy! I diden't get to talk to him as he all but disappeared after the transaction, but then came another DEALER! with a book on coins, after the first dealer in antiques called them over from a coin display where they sell thousands of coin a week and asked him, to look this coin up for him o.k. I listened intently as he told the dealer, I ONLY !GAVE THE GUY $10.00 FOR IT. I do not know what the coin was but they were all very excited when they looked it up, and what ever the coin was it was a very low mintage of like 1600 or 16,000, and they figured the value to day as about $1400.00 in circulated condition, so I went up and told the dealer, (and he knew I saw him buy the coin) I right now will give you $50.00 for that coin not even knowing what it was, of course he told me no so I guess the moral is know what you are buying and also selling.
Hey coinlight! Are you gonna boycott that antique dealer? I bought an overgraded/priced buff nickel from a dealer at a flea market years ago. I was just a novice(not that I'm still not a novice). He's been there since I was a kid. I haven't bought a thing from him in ten years. I still look at his stuff and will waste his time asking to look at coins under the plexiglass. I just do it for spite,knowing I'm not gonna buy anything. Sometimes I'll tell him I might be back later and walk by but not stop. It only took once and I'm done with him. Where I live there aren't many coin dealers so I hope it doesn't happen too many more times or I'm screwed.
that is quite a user name sniffer; and to answere you honestly NO! I will not boycott the guy as he has some very nice coins and paper money and sells pretty resonable, I purchased a 1891-O and a 1885-P morgan, a 2003 silver eagle and a 1944 walker all for $60.00 and all AU the walker maybe AU50, what gets me about the thing is the way that the seller was treated, I wish that he would have asked me to buy his coin, I would have given him a fair price for it, but it was his to sell or not to sell, but these guy's took advantage of a man out of work no doubt, that needed money, and I ABSOLUTELY!! hate to see people do that to our hobby, we who sell coins and buy coins are a good bunch usually, but some people are giving our hobby a bad name, and dealers should be fair in their dealing with the public, there are to many bum dealers out there and you have to be very careful, I have collected for years and even I have been ripped off but you learn to a certain extent, I now buy the best that I can for as little as I can and if I bid and win I have done so with a clear mind at the end and have given a fair price for what I have purchased, that way I can sleep at night knowing that I haven't robbed anyone, that means more to me than buying something from someone and ripping them.
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