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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 2299644, member: 36230&quot;]I don&#039;t know if I would say &quot;most&quot;, but even if some do, they&#039;re not likely to presented as being anything more than a novelty and priced accordingly. Please try to understand that any demand for plated coins is due to ignorance. They are, at best, a novelty usually purchased by those who don&#039;t know any better, often as gifts. No one in their right mind is going to knowingly pay the outrageous prices initially asked for such things just because they &quot;like&quot; them. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;ve ever bought flowers or been in the woods, you should know the argument is false; there&#039;s a difference between dandelions and roses, and any woman will certainly tell you as much. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;If by &quot;retail stores&quot; you mean the average establishment that sells manufactured products, it&#039;s a poor comparison. No one walks into wally world thinking that plastic shoe organizer is some sort of &quot;steal&quot; today and will be worth a small fortune tomorrow, but this happens all day every day with coins. Look at this very forum and how often threads appear in which the OP cares about one thing; value. Have you noticed how most of such questions result from nothing more than a coin looking &quot;different&quot; to an untrained eye? The reasons behind what you see here are the same why you may see such minor nothings selling for ridiculous money on the bay: the assumption that because it looks different, it therefore must be valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re fairly new, so perhaps ask yourself how you would feel if, not that long ago, you paid $20-$70 or whatever for a coin that turned out to be near worthless. Would the experience have helped grow your interest in this hobby? I highly doubt it, so why take the chance that you&#039;re doing it to someone else if you, in fact, care about your hobby? Just because every other schlub is doing it, this doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s okay or that caring participants should jump on board.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like you, NR, and believe you to be a sincere individual, so don&#039;t take any of this the wrong way. If you want to sell, go right ahead, but describe it properly. Make the effort to tell potential buyers that the &quot;error&quot; is both minor, quite common, and carries little in the way of a premium. If you do this and someone pays you, say, $15, that&#039;s on them, but if you don&#039;t truthfully describe, the only reason I can see would be in hoping to take advantage of someone who is in the same shoes that you recently were.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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