well put Kasia. I thought it would: a) make an interesting discussion b) allow me to vent and sort through my feelings in a logical and...
It's a good point, Tom. I know absolutely nothing about the seller other than he has sold coins to this dealer recently and that he plans to sell...
FWIW, thanks to all who have offered opinions. I guess I have my answer as to what CT thinks. The general consensus is that it's ethical for the...
Not even close...
hardly...
He may have known (IMHO he should have at least suspected and might have, I can't claim to know), and if he didn't he was being lazy and depending...
I think what people are missing in this discussion is that if and it's a big IF... the coin is a circulation strike and it's NOT a 66 RED, then...
he's saying he wants to sell the coin. Period he didn't ask for a price, the dealer offered
do you think that he's planning to melt them?
so, if a customer walks into a dealer with a 1932 quarter, you'd advise the dealer to make an offer before he looks at the mint mark and if the...
the seller presented it as an item for sale. I have no clue what the dealer was thinking, nor will I ever assume that I do. When you (as the...
Tom, I had an opportunity to help authenticate the coin as a MPL for the dealer. It has ALL of the characteristic markers. The only thing that...
If a dealer makes an offer and the seller accepts it, it's a fair transaction. My question was is it ethical for the "expert" of the two to take...
I had a situation arise that gave me pause and I won't say who it is, but I wanted to ask what the ethical proper conduct is in a certain...
we need better pictures of the rims!!! they look rounded from what I can see
an 1892-CC would do very nicely
look more closely at the 3, it's an altered date coin
I thought that I would start a thread about ideas of what we would do if we could run the US Mint. I thought that it could maybe spur on some new...
Has anyone here noticed that this Reverse Proof coin will be W mint marked? The first 2 are both P Mint, the 2012 is S Minted and now the 2013 is...
has anyone noticed that this set contains a West Point Reverse Proof? All of the others are Philadelphia (and 1 S Mint)
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