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Terrifying. They had three Morgan’s. $50 each. One labeled damaged. One labeled au 58. Third I almost bought. NGc graded ms64. For $75.

Regular rosies $8, 10.

And get this one. Regular halves $15 non silver just regular old coin. Untucking real.

Even sadder is, I know that you mentioned that those examples were graded, but you should hear how many the pawn shops get that, after review, are actually FAKES!

Roll of mex libertad at $44. Ouch

Avg circulated/slick Morgan were $36.00 from the junk box at LCS.
$50.00 was cheapest at antique malls I have been in the last few weeks.
Inventory is light at all my usual stops.

The antique malls are looking for suckers who overpay for things. I've seen junk coins for 10 to 50 times face. These coins are not error coins, nor do they contain any silver. If their prices were real, we'd all be millionaires.

Sometimes the pawn shops make mistakes by selling things too cheaply, believe it or not.

I went to a pawn shop in January, 2009 in Florida shortly after the Bernie Madoff scandal caused locals to sell their possessions to a local pawn shop. The owner was on CNBC talking about all the stuff he bought.

I saw a box which had clad Kennedy halves mixed with silvers. Almost all of the silvers were 40%ers. THEY WERE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME PRICE! I believe it was $1 each. My jaw dropped when I made the discovery. Here’s what I did. I made stacks of about 20 coins each. I put a clad on top of each stack just in case someone inside knew the silvers were worth a lot more than $1 each. I think I got somewhere between 150 and 200 silvers that wonderful day in January, 2009.

How about that for a wild and totally true story!

Bait and switch sometimes.

I was in fla 2004. Pawn shop had all halves $1., But. When you got to the counter it was, Wait while I look up today's value.
At which I flip him the bird and stormed out.

Mine was a legitimately great deal!

Y'all been scaring me.so, this morning I pitched up a 1900-O for $35.

At the same time, a gent bought 20 rounds, Indian head, for $650. And 2,10/ounce bars for$600.