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<p>[QUOTE="jwitten, post: 2129866, member: 70583"]Our local dealer is terrible. I had a VERY nice $2 1/2 Liberty I wanted him to give me an opinion on. I showed it to him, and with just a glance said he thought it was fake. I asked why. He said the denticles on the front looked funny near the date. He weighed it, and it was "off" by about .01 grams or less. I knew it was a very very nice genuine coin, so went home, printed out a picture of the pcgs coin facts coin to show the exact same "odd" look to the denticles. He said "well, the weight is still off". I knew he was using a very cheap digital scale, so asked him to weigh one of his coins to verify. Sure enough, the nickel he weighed was off weight even more than my Liberty. I am pretty sure he knew he was wrong at this point, but I wanted to drive the point home. I asked him if the nickel he was selling was also fake. His customer (really just an old guy who sits in the shop and talks to him) was grinning and trying not to laugh. I would not trust the dealer in my town with my coins at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jwitten, post: 2129866, member: 70583"]Our local dealer is terrible. I had a VERY nice $2 1/2 Liberty I wanted him to give me an opinion on. I showed it to him, and with just a glance said he thought it was fake. I asked why. He said the denticles on the front looked funny near the date. He weighed it, and it was "off" by about .01 grams or less. I knew it was a very very nice genuine coin, so went home, printed out a picture of the pcgs coin facts coin to show the exact same "odd" look to the denticles. He said "well, the weight is still off". I knew he was using a very cheap digital scale, so asked him to weigh one of his coins to verify. Sure enough, the nickel he weighed was off weight even more than my Liberty. I am pretty sure he knew he was wrong at this point, but I wanted to drive the point home. I asked him if the nickel he was selling was also fake. His customer (really just an old guy who sits in the shop and talks to him) was grinning and trying not to laugh. I would not trust the dealer in my town with my coins at all.[/QUOTE]
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