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Offline Victor

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almost 40 year old Sear certificate
« on: April 07, 2017, 12:36:11 PM »
below is a coin of Gallienus that came with a Sear certificate from 1978. It is interesting to see an almost four decade old certificate from Sear, but I could not help but wonder why anyone would have wanted to certify a coin that even today would not be worth more than $10-20 on a good day. In fact, I would value the certificate more than the coin. What I really found interesting was that it was shipped using old US stamps. The 1 cent green stamp to the far left is from 1924. The 3 cents stamps are from the 1950's and the 13 cent stamps are from the 70's, many are bicentennial issues.

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Re: almost 40 year old Sear certificate
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2017, 07:20:47 AM »
The stamps might be worth more than the coin.

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Re: almost 40 year old Sear certificate
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2017, 09:18:10 AM »
The stamps might be worth more than the coin.

especially if they had not been used for postage.