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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 288424, member: 1674&quot;]In an effort to make you feel better I will tell you a true story about someone who had a much worse coin experience than you this week.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was working our table at the Silver Dollar show in StL on Friday when a guy came up and asked for an informal evalution of his coins.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t busy so I agreed.&nbsp; He pulled out a list and a handful of coins.&nbsp; Basically he had a number of better date Morgans, some common Saints and some common 20 Libs.&nbsp; Most of his coins were very harshly cleaned.&nbsp; I quoted him a FMV for the Morgans and then when I started quoting him prices on the saints at a little back of melt he started to get weird.&nbsp; I assumed he thought the coins were worth more than I&#039;d quoted so i started explaining that they were cleaned/polished so harshly that we couldn&#039;t sell them as jewelry even and we would be forced to just have them melted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>He interrupted me and told me that he was upset that the previous dealer he had spoken to had quoted him a price of $175 each for his Saints, his 20 libs, his 1 oz AGE&#039;s and his 1 oz gold ingots.&nbsp; I was dismayed and started asking questions and he told me who the dealer was and showed me his business card (I don&#039;t know the guy since he is just a local guy who set up at the show) then he told me he&#039;d sold the guy more than 10k in coins (which at $175/ oz works out to about 60 ozs of gold)!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was stunned (as was Zane who was sitting next to me).&nbsp; We ended up recommending he try to get his coins back and if he couldn&#039;t we recommended that he contact the ANA.</p><p><br /></p><p>I figure the guy basically stole about $40k from the poor guy, just because he didn&#039;t know anything about coins.&nbsp; It was despicable.&nbsp; It is thieves like that guy that give honest coin dealers a bad name![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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