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TV Coin Salesman an Informative Shyster

I recently watched a coin dealer on a cable news television channel. He went to great lengths showing old file films from the 1930s in reference to the Great Depression: mass unemployment, the soup lines/kitchens, the closure of myriad banks, and how American citizens had to relinquish their gold holdings, etc. His somewhat lengthy presentation was very articulate, highly informative and accurate.

The “hook” was the offering up of a number of 1899-P $20 Liberty Head gold coins, all of which were graded MS-62 by Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) and

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