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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 796463, member: 19065&quot;]Hi <b>Moen1305</b>: Why so suspicious of the kid with the Barber? Do you trust your own children&#039;s judgement? You should, because it sounds like your kid exercised restraint and didn&#039;t buy the coin without consulting you first. My own parents never knew all of my high school friends and acquaintances. Of the few they got to know, they didn&#039;t like all of them but they also never proved to be bad people after many years of relations either. I remember doing trades of comics, bb cards, Hot Wheels and whatever else amused us since I was in grade school. When I was in high school I was well into my own coin collection, which included a few Barbers, and the coins were mine to do with what I pleased. YN&#039;s are collectors and buyers too. I used to order out of the Numismatic magazines and also often had mail order coins on review long before the internet, but with all the YNs on forums like CT, it wouldn&#039;t surprize me if they have killer collections and lots of access to coins I never had at that age. Sure that kid could have dipped into his families collection, or stolen the coin(s) from some another kid&#039;s house, or from some coin shop, got them in a garage sale, who knows... they could well have been his own coins or something gifted to him at the recent holidays, or even heirloom coins he got but didn&#039;t want. A discussion on coins between your kid and the other kid you don&#039;t know could have prompted the idea between the kids to trade/sell whatever. It&#039;s always an excellent idea to know who you are buying from and it seems your kid did the right thing, exercised restraint, asked a more informed parent and bought time to consider dealing with this kid. That sounds like excellent parenting, but I hope you don&#039;t get too paranoid by the situation either. I know kids get irked by that sort of parental reaction or perceive the parent doesn&#039;t trust them and their personal (albeit juvenile) judgement. I think you did well but don&#039;t need to step in unless something more heinous is apparent regarding the source of those coins. Just my 2¢ :thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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