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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panda, post: 912811, member: 24443&quot;]a friend called me the other day saying his friend called for a ride to the pawn shop because he found an old coin in his house that is worth $50,000:goof:.</p><p><br /></p><p>my friend knew to call me before they made fools of themselves. so i go down to his house and its a 1889 morgan(not a CC,O,S), in what was about G condition. he decided to scrub it clean before i came, even though i told them not to touch it...</p><p><br /></p><p>i told him, since he cleaned it, its worth just the silver that is in it, about $14. he about had a fit, telling me he went on ebay and seen one that was a few years newer(1893-s) sell for a crazy amount of money, and said his HAS to be worth more because its older. i showed him the red book and his year in even better grades then his, selling for no more then $50 graded.. he still wanted to go to the pawn shop, my friend wasn&#039;t going to take him at first. eventually he took him and they guy originally offered him $12, but with all this kids complaining and telling him he don&#039;t know what he is talking about. he told him here is $5 take it, or get out of my store!</p><p><br /></p><p>he was then mad at me. he said &quot;its your fault, if you would have told me that if i cleaned my $50,000 coin it would ruin it, i wouldn&#039;t have!&quot; i did tell him not to touch or clean the coin, but didn&#039;t tell him why.</p><p><br /></p><p>no clue where he even got $50,000 from....</p><p><br /></p><p>so tread carefully with people. they think everything they got is worth a fortune and get insulted with the truth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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