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<p>[QUOTE="ikandiggit, post: 1004432, member: 16269"]That happens to me occasionally and I just come back to my forums to discuss coins/paper money rather than trying to educate someone who really has no interest in what I'm saying. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today I had someone come in to work to sell me silver dollars which I was hoping to buy for melt since I was told they were pretty worn. When the fella showed them to me I saw that they were all post 1969 which meant they were nickel not silver (Canadian). It took a while to make him understand that they weren't <i>silver</i> dollars and not worth more than a dollar each. He had bought them years ago from a coin shop thinking that they were silver. He didn't believe me until I showed him the price guide I had with me. That created another problem because he thought his coins were in excellent condition and should be worth the MS prices. I didn't buy anything from him. He left saying he would take them to a coin store where he was sure he would get the prices he wanted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ikandiggit, post: 1004432, member: 16269"]That happens to me occasionally and I just come back to my forums to discuss coins/paper money rather than trying to educate someone who really has no interest in what I'm saying. Today I had someone come in to work to sell me silver dollars which I was hoping to buy for melt since I was told they were pretty worn. When the fella showed them to me I saw that they were all post 1969 which meant they were nickel not silver (Canadian). It took a while to make him understand that they weren't [I]silver[/I] dollars and not worth more than a dollar each. He had bought them years ago from a coin shop thinking that they were silver. He didn't believe me until I showed him the price guide I had with me. That created another problem because he thought his coins were in excellent condition and should be worth the MS prices. I didn't buy anything from him. He left saying he would take them to a coin store where he was sure he would get the prices he wanted.[/QUOTE]
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