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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1362957, member: 27832&quot;]I was talking about coins with a teller at My Favorite Bank, and she said that she&#039;d gotten a call from a lady who wanted to know if they &quot;took old dollar coins&quot;. She said that she explained that the lady could probably get more money by taking them to a coin store, but the lady replied that she &quot;didn&#039;t have time for that&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t always protect people from themselves. Some people apparently just aren&#039;t wired for financial wisdom. Do I take an hour or two, take these coins to a dealer, and get a couple hundred dollars, or do I deposit them at the bank/spend them at the gas station? &quot;I don&#039;t know nothin&#039; about coins, and I don&#039;t trust them dealers, but I know the bank&#039;ll take &#039;em.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I try to remember that I&#039;m <i>privileged</i> to have some aptitude for this, and to be able to spare the time and attention to pursue this hobby. Not everyone is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, this is just part of the numismatic &quot;circle of life&quot;. A given coin gets spent again and again, and then falls into the hands of a collector. The collector keeps and enjoys it for a while, maybe sells it to another collector. Eventually, though, it falls into the hands of someone who doesn&#039;t understand it, and they just spend it -- and the cycle begins again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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