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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1416808, member: 15929&quot;]You can lead a horse to water but you can&#039;t make him drink!</p><p><br /></p><p>Educate all you want but with most folks, it goes in one ear and then out the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a cousin who knows full well that I collect coins.</p><p>She needed some money.</p><p>So she went to a Jeweler/Coin Dealer in her home town to sell a Half Eagle that had been given to her by her Father and which she had worn as a pendent.</p><p>The &quot;dealer&quot; told her that since it had been used as jewelry, that it had no collectible value.</p><p>He offered her $200 and she accepted.</p><p>Had she called me FIRST, she could have at least gotten &quot;melt&quot; value for the coin. ($400)</p><p><br /></p><p>A month later when I learned of what she had done, she cried.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that these traveling gold/silver buyers know full well that there are folks out there who are ignorant of gold/silver melt values and they simply use that to their advantage. It&#039;s not illegal to tender a low ball offer and a savy seller will do some research.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there an answer to the problem?</p><p><br /></p><p>No.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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