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<p>[QUOTE="windwalker, post: 1665527, member: 38923"]Tyler I don't think that there are many people outside of the coin collecting community who could tell you the difference between a '64, '69, and a '74 Kennedy. Once I filled those slots in my album I stayed away from all Kennedy halves except the '64 for that very reason. If you wanted to trade for anything except a '64 you have to check the years. So no I don't expect people to know their coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of cashiers who don't know that a Susan B is legal tender and at the same time would not accept a barber coin either. But I suspect that you or I would because we should know better. If we accepted it a face would be scammers or just smart people who recognized a bargain.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of the unethical things that have either been done or are being done now were raised in an ethical fashion and they chose to do the things that they do and yet they try to raise their children to do the right thing. This type of thing has been going on for ages and will not change unless they want it to or are forced to do what people think is "the right thing".</p><p><br /></p><p>We know the following: (1) she purchased 9 rolls, (2) they were 1964 Kennedy's, and (3) she spent $8,000. We don't know if anything else was purchased because the OP said that he was going to visit the individual to look at the coins and the receipt.</p><p><br /></p><p>If that was all she bought then she was taken advantage of. While most of us have been taken advantage of when we were first starting off (possibly not to this extent) we looked at the coin, were told what the price was, and then we had to make a choice. Either buy or to keep looking. Unfortunately we all have seen instances of this happening and perhaps we said something or just walked away. Most of us would probably just have said nothing and continued looking because we didn't want to interfer. So everytime we did this we just let it ride. Perhaps we did something by walking out and purchasing from there again, but still we did nothing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="windwalker, post: 1665527, member: 38923"]Tyler I don't think that there are many people outside of the coin collecting community who could tell you the difference between a '64, '69, and a '74 Kennedy. Once I filled those slots in my album I stayed away from all Kennedy halves except the '64 for that very reason. If you wanted to trade for anything except a '64 you have to check the years. So no I don't expect people to know their coins. There are a lot of cashiers who don't know that a Susan B is legal tender and at the same time would not accept a barber coin either. But I suspect that you or I would because we should know better. If we accepted it a face would be scammers or just smart people who recognized a bargain. A lot of the unethical things that have either been done or are being done now were raised in an ethical fashion and they chose to do the things that they do and yet they try to raise their children to do the right thing. This type of thing has been going on for ages and will not change unless they want it to or are forced to do what people think is "the right thing". We know the following: (1) she purchased 9 rolls, (2) they were 1964 Kennedy's, and (3) she spent $8,000. We don't know if anything else was purchased because the OP said that he was going to visit the individual to look at the coins and the receipt. If that was all she bought then she was taken advantage of. While most of us have been taken advantage of when we were first starting off (possibly not to this extent) we looked at the coin, were told what the price was, and then we had to make a choice. Either buy or to keep looking. Unfortunately we all have seen instances of this happening and perhaps we said something or just walked away. Most of us would probably just have said nothing and continued looking because we didn't want to interfer. So everytime we did this we just let it ride. Perhaps we did something by walking out and purchasing from there again, but still we did nothing.[/QUOTE]
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