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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 140776, member: 1674&quot;]I was at my dealer&#039;s this past week and heard a stroy a little like this, well not very similar, but your story reminded me of this one.&nbsp; An older gentleman came in with an 1887 proof set, IIRC (it had a 3CN in it and a Liberty head Nickel and seated dime, quarter, and half, plus an IHC and a Morgan so it had to be between 1883 and 1889).&nbsp; Anyway this guy had been to a couple of shops previously to try to sell the coins and was unhappy with the prices offered.&nbsp; Appearantly he purchased the set from a now defunct Chicago dealer (whose name i didn&#039;t recognize) for about three times what he had been offered by the previous dealers.&nbsp; He was unwilling to believe that he&#039;d overpaid and that his &quot;great investment&quot; in coins had declined in value 66% in the 25+ years that he&#039;d owned them.&nbsp; My dealer offered about what the other dealers had and the guy gave in and sold the set, thouroughly discouraged.&nbsp; I asked to look at the coins and they were rubber banded together in PVC flips (the flips that they&#039;d been in at the time of purchase) and all the coins were covered in clear pvc liquid.&nbsp; It looked like they were caught soon enough that an acetone dip would be able to save them from permanent damage, but a couple of the coins looked like they had nice original toning on them.&nbsp; It was a sad sight to see the guy disappointed because he didn&#039;t know what he was doing when he bought the coins and now it was coming back to bite him.&nbsp; Like your friend he just couldn&#039;t handle that he&#039;d been fooled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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