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My name is Allen, I am new to the CONECA forum. I am currently not a paid member, but will most likely pay for the adult membership in the near future. I been collecting US coins since I was a junior in college, that was over 15 years ago. Back then, there was no cell phone apps for numismatics. I remember using Google Maps to find local pawn shops, and jewelry stores for coins. My very first Morgan Dollar was purchased from a local goldsmith jeweler whom was not interested in coins, but had a treasure tray full of Indian gold coins and $3 dollar princess. He sold one $3 gold princess to me, for the price of spot, which was slightly over $20 dollars/gram. The $3 princess was cleaned, but for the price of spot gold, I will take that deal ALL DAY LONG. There is more to the story...the goldsmith brought out many stacks of Morgan Dollars for the price of $25 each. One of the stack, was some black deep mirror beautiful Morgan Dollars...which, I passed up on as I went for the old worn out Morgan Dollars!!!! At the time, I know nothing about the importance of CONDITION nor the value of DMPL, the only thing I remember was the red book price value for 1893 S and 1889 CC. As I was standing there looking at the worn out Morgan with my 30x loupe, the goldsmith asked what I was looking for? I do not remember what i told him, but that was the last time he sold me any coins. I went back the following week, he told me the coins were sold. Once in a while I get flash back of that day and I imagine what college life would be like if I bought them DMPL for $25 dollars a piece....
My name is Allen, I am new to the CONECA forum. I am currently not a paid member, but will most likely pay for the adult membership in the near future. I been collecting US coins since I was a junior in college, that was over 15 years ago. Back then, there was no cell phone apps for numismatics. I remember using Google Maps to find local pawn shops, and jewelry stores for coins. My very first Morgan Dollar was purchased from a local goldsmith jeweler whom was not interested in coins, but had a treasure tray full of Indian gold coins and $3 dollar princess. He sold one $3 gold princess to me, for the price of spot, which was slightly over $20 dollars/gram. The $3 princess was cleaned, but for the price of spot gold, I will take that deal ALL DAY LONG. There is more to the story...the goldsmith brought out many stacks of Morgan Dollars for the price of $25 each. One of the stack, was some black deep mirror beautiful Morgan Dollars...which, I passed up on as I went for the old worn out Morgan Dollars!!!! At the time, I know nothing about the importance of CONDITION nor the value of DMPL, the only thing I remember was the red book price value for 1893 S and 1889 CC. As I was standing there looking at the worn out Morgan with my 30x loupe, the goldsmith asked what I was looking for? I do not remember what i told him, but that was the last time he sold me any coins. I went back the following week, he told me the coins were sold. Once in a while I get flash back of that day and I imagine what college life would be like if I bought them DMPL for $25 dollars a piece....
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