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<p>[QUOTE="Sean Parker, post: 24693261, member: 137474"]<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/y6PtHTkS/Crying-Shame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />(In case the image does not load.. It's a 1794 flowing hair dollar.. That some jack waggon cleaned.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw this while trolling eBay looking for stuff to use in trade. Would you, or would you not, strangle whoever cleaned this?</p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely not as valuable.. But a guy came into my shop a while back with the only Peace Dollar anybody wants, the 28. It was somewhere between very and extra fine, as far as I could tell. I made him the best offer I could, but he walked. He came back the next day with a big smile on his face and said "let's see what you offer me now!" He'd cleaned it up. With one of these:</p><p><img src="https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/fd8bb695-87d7-4714-83d7-f20d85fb6186_1.a62a1695a34ff22cced5bf03c6c9c4ea.jpeg?odnWidth=612&odnHeight=612&odnBg=ffffff" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yeah..</p><p><br /></p><p>He thought instead of a few hundred, he was going to get a few thousand. I'd already told this guy multiple times DO NOT CLEAN ANY COINS. If he did, they'd only be worth scrap if they had a scrap value and if it was a key date I wouldn't even buy it for scrap out of principle.</p><p><br /></p><p>In situations like this, I'm uncharacteristically brutal. I congratulated him on making himself look like a complete moron while simultaneously only screwing himself over and wished him luck with his withdrawls and back child support.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sean Parker, post: 24693261, member: 137474"][IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/y6PtHTkS/Crying-Shame.png[/IMG](In case the image does not load.. It's a 1794 flowing hair dollar.. That some jack waggon cleaned.) I saw this while trolling eBay looking for stuff to use in trade. Would you, or would you not, strangle whoever cleaned this? Definitely not as valuable.. But a guy came into my shop a while back with the only Peace Dollar anybody wants, the 28. It was somewhere between very and extra fine, as far as I could tell. I made him the best offer I could, but he walked. He came back the next day with a big smile on his face and said "let's see what you offer me now!" He'd cleaned it up. With one of these: [IMG]https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/fd8bb695-87d7-4714-83d7-f20d85fb6186_1.a62a1695a34ff22cced5bf03c6c9c4ea.jpeg?odnWidth=612&odnHeight=612&odnBg=ffffff[/IMG] Yeah.. He thought instead of a few hundred, he was going to get a few thousand. I'd already told this guy multiple times DO NOT CLEAN ANY COINS. If he did, they'd only be worth scrap if they had a scrap value and if it was a key date I wouldn't even buy it for scrap out of principle. In situations like this, I'm uncharacteristically brutal. I congratulated him on making himself look like a complete moron while simultaneously only screwing himself over and wished him luck with his withdrawls and back child support.[/QUOTE]
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