serial said:totally agree with you there!!!!!ecc said:I'm not saying your going to loose out by collecting like you do, far from it when you get it at face value.. What i am saying is that the book values are way off and shouldn't even be quoted.. As a dealer i'm sick of telling people that their collections aren't worth what they think because they think book price is gospel.
or worse yet when they go "its really old so it must be worth heaps!!!"
you then show them book value and they go "no mine is worth more than that":lol:
lol that shit happens to me all the time.. An elderly couple came and seen me last week with a bunch of average circulated pennies, i had a quick look for dates and when there was nothing of numismatic value i said they aren't worth much.. They cracked it at me saying the book says this one is worth $10 that one is $12 so on and so on, at that point i went and grabbed a bag of them from the back, threw it on the table and said buy as many as you want for 20c each, they soon realized they didn't have much.
By the way i have close to 1.5 million average circulated pennies, does anyone have any suggestions what to do with them?