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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 49017, member: 2761&quot;]That story reminds me of this one...</p><p><br /></p><p>My 10 year son will sometimes takes some of my &quot;old&quot; Lincoln Cents to school to show them off to his friends.&nbsp; These are my Lincolns that end up in the gallon pickel jar...which will probably sell 20 years from now as &quot;unserached lots&quot; on eBay.&nbsp; You know the pitch...&quot;found coins in a old man&#039;s crumbling attic...never searched!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>He recently took a 1909-P Lincoln in about VF condition to school and most of his classmates never saw something as old as this.&nbsp; <b>One offered him $20 for it!</b> </p><p><br /></p><p>I told him to take it.&nbsp; He looked it up in <i>Coin Values</i> and they had it at $3 to $3.50.&nbsp; &quot;That&#039;s called profit son,&quot; I told him.&nbsp; Next day at school comes the big &quot;coin deal&quot;.&nbsp; Asking him what happend...he shows me a note from his teacher that needed to be signed...by the parent (that&#039;s me!)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://bestsmileys.com/blushing/6.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It stated something to the effect that the teacher appreciates my son&#039;s interest in coins and history, but to &quot;hustle&quot; his classmates for $20 is not welcome in her classroom.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote a note of apology to the teacher stating it was MY fault and I only encouraged my son to enjoy some of the buying and selling highs of this hobby.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My son and I still smile about it.&nbsp; <img src="http://bestsmileys.com/angles/8.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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