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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 401734, member: 15062&quot;]I&#039;m not offended by your comments.&nbsp; After all, everyone has their own opinion.&nbsp; I&#039;ll grant you that my first two paragraphs may be total B.S. but that does not negate the third paragraph which I stand behind totally.&nbsp; If someone does something to someone else that they would not want done to themselves, then they did wrong.&nbsp; There are those here who assume that the lady knew what she was doing; I assume that she did not know.&nbsp; In either case, if it was recognized that she might not have known what she really had, she should have been given the information.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s easy to look at a case like this from a biased point of view.&nbsp; Most of the posters here are collectors and their bias is to get something desirable for as little as possible.&nbsp; What&#039;s not so easy is to remove your biases and look at this from the other side too.&nbsp; The woman was taken advantage of by someone who possessed knowledge that she didn&#039;t (don&#039;t try to convince me that she knew exactly what she had and simply didn&#039;t care).&nbsp; Was he legally obligated to educate her?&nbsp; Maybe, maybe not*.&nbsp; Was he morally obligated?&nbsp; Yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>* For instance, let&#039;s say that you have a painting that you take to a dealer and that dealer examines that painting and asserts that it is a relative worthless painting by no one important.&nbsp; Now, if that dealer offers you $50 and you take it, you&#039;re presumably satisfied with the deal, based on his assessment of the value.&nbsp; However, if you later visit that same shop and see the same painting being sold for $50,000, you can make a legal case that you were deliberately cheated and you could sue for what you should have been paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;d like to hear from the OP is why, having determined that the coins were worth more than $.50 each, he did not say something to the lady.&nbsp; After all, if he opened the roll and had seen an iron washer at each end, would he have accepted the roll without comment?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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