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After everyone had spoken, the collectors drifted around the room and examined the coins more closely, offering admiration, praise and numismatic advice.
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Money handlers would bite down on coins to test their authenticity, said David W. Lange of Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.
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It is difficult to say how many licensed coin dealers are telling their customers they don't have what they need, but earlier this year, Ute Wartenberg-Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society, said she was asked by an investor how one could buy 10, 000 coins (they are sold in ounce quantities and three fractional versions below that, at a price that is slightly above market value).
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