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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vegasvic, post: 412576, member: 15296&quot;]The buyer being fooled was the intention of the seller.&nbsp; If a seller is very careful in the description in the auction, they can almost say anything if it is termed very carefully in their favor.&nbsp; By leaving out important details and promoting the larger questionable aspects of their coin, they are able to work their way around the truth.&nbsp; By leaving out the major articles of truth they, unfortunately, they are able to deceive, yet it is almost impossible to hold them liable.&nbsp; Also, the buyers really have no one to blame but themselves.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to get excited over a coin they may have desired for years, but in actuality they know little of the facts about the object of their desire.&nbsp; So many buyers will chase a coin, but balk at spending $20 or so on a book.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always believed that the price of a book will return itself many times to the serious, studious collector.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what the series is, even if it&#039;s only Lincoln cents, a good read will return the price of the book to the collector many times over.&nbsp; It seems that many people would rather talk to a &quot;knowledgable&quot; buddy than spend a few hours reading.&nbsp; It is a flaw of our&nbsp; society.&nbsp; How many people actually read the contents and instructions of a new computer.&nbsp; Get it out of the box, hook it up and if it doesn&#039;t work: call customer support.&nbsp; Yes, I maybe convicting the majority of society, but it seems that Americans have become too lazy to read.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong, I too have been guilty.&nbsp; Getting a new printer, hooking it up and if it doesn&#039;t, then I resort to reading.&nbsp; I&#039;ll do anything to keep from calling customer support primarily because I only speak English.</p><p>I believe it would be very easy to sell a soft strike 1922 Lincoln as a 1922 Plain.&nbsp; Many people don&#039;t understand the difference, but would be willing to plunk their hard earned money down, without a thourough investigation of the coin.&nbsp; And probably do not even know their is a difference.</p><p>I&#039;m sorry if I seem to be convicting collectors with a broad bush, but let&#039;s be honest, the thrill of buying a semi-rare, popular coin is easy to do and the minutes spent reading of the differences seems to be very difficult.</p><p>Vegas Vic[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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