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<p>[QUOTE="fatima, post: 1415204, member: 22143"]This seems like the classic straw man logic. That is, create a very improbable but bad situation, make it sound as if the party is 100% responsible for it and thus, the party is doing a bad thing. Mr Carr isn't misrepresenting his coins. If someone else does in the future, I don't see how he could possibly be held responsible for that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone purchasing an item based on its numismatic value has the responsibility to educate themselves on what they are buying. If not, as I have often noted from my own travels, they will find that an education and gaining experience costs money. In this case, we are talking about the price of a silver coin. I really doesn't seem like something to get that worked up over. Certainly there are much more significant issues for coin collectors being created by real counterfeiters and on-line and TV dealers attempting to sell $19 coins as $2000 gold coins. This is where people get really burnt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fatima, post: 1415204, member: 22143"]This seems like the classic straw man logic. That is, create a very improbable but bad situation, make it sound as if the party is 100% responsible for it and thus, the party is doing a bad thing. Mr Carr isn't misrepresenting his coins. If someone else does in the future, I don't see how he could possibly be held responsible for that. Anyone purchasing an item based on its numismatic value has the responsibility to educate themselves on what they are buying. If not, as I have often noted from my own travels, they will find that an education and gaining experience costs money. In this case, we are talking about the price of a silver coin. I really doesn't seem like something to get that worked up over. Certainly there are much more significant issues for coin collectors being created by real counterfeiters and on-line and TV dealers attempting to sell $19 coins as $2000 gold coins. This is where people get really burnt.[/QUOTE]
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