im not a coin dealer but I do try to be honest, maybe thats a fault of mine but I would like to believe its a strength.
Why would you say anything, if you were on Ebay and see a 1969-S Lincoln Cent DDO-001 and it wasn't listed has a DDO, or the big one, would you send the seller a message and tell them what they had ? Hell no ................
Good idea, and here is a site that will calculate the current melt value: http://www.coinflation.com/coins/silver_coin_calculator.html TC
You did the right thing. Unfortunately once you tell someone something is worth more than they thought most people will automatically think it is worth even more and you are lowballing them even when that isn't the case.
I love how there's always a few that suspect the coins don't belong to the person.... You'd be surprised how coins can end up with just about anyone, even if they don't know about coins.
Well no, but if I won the auction for a piddlingly low amount I would send them a lot more money than my winning bid. Yes I do that sometimes. Once at a show a dealer showed me a large cent and asked what it was (variety) I told him and he asked if I would give him $X for it. I told him no it's rarer than that you're too low and I'll give you $3X for it. He was happy and so was I.
Her trying to spend the halves on smokes suggests that the coins were probably not hers anyway and were probably stolen - a real tough dilemma for anyone on the receiving end ie a store clerk, another customer. Unfortunately even if you called the police they wouldn't even follow up on it. She could have tried dumping them in a Coinstar but those will get rejected - which only affords her the option of spending them.
I've been told my laugh resembles that of Krusty the Klown from the Simpsons. There are some indicators that can point to this scenario: The coins are in better condition than they should be for circulating coins, The coins offered are a partial set by date, mm, or both Responses/reactions to innocuous questions like, 'Gollygeewillickers these are old and look cool! Where did you find these?' I recently turned down a seller offering coins I believed were more than likely stolen. No way to prove it or anything, but going with my guts is usually the way to go.
"UPDATE" so apparently she came back yesterday on my day off looking for me and my co worker said I wasn't here she told him the pawnshop only offered her 4.5 per coin and she wanted to sell them to me and she needed the money so my co worker offered her $5 per coin and she took it. Like I said....some people
On the bright side, if she gets any more, you can bet she'll bring them to you. Might even spread the word, as well. Was your co-worker nice enough to offer them to you (since he apparently didn't tell her to come back today) or did he just cut in on your action?
oh no he didn't offer them to me but he's the kind that would knock you out of the way if he thought he could make money.
