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Message:: [QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 6781169, member: 72790"]My response has little to do with coins. Dougsmit's response about sealing a deal with a handshake rings a bell with me. I, too, used to and still follow the maxim that "a man's word is his bond".  If you say that you will do something, you do it. Right now I am holding two coins for a friend that I said I would hold for him after he saw and examined them. He very much wanted them but was a bit short on cash. Would i hold them for him for a month or so? That was back in the late winter of 2020 and he's more short of cash now that he ever was with his business taking a big hit with the pandemic. We still talk on the phone and he asks if I still have those two coins and am I still holding them for him. Of course I am.  I said I would and I will continue to do so. What he does not know is that later on I discovered I had way underpriced the two coins (they are in an area I really don't know a great deal about-Indo Bactrian) and could have sold them for twice the price we had agreed on. We will both be getting our vaccine shots in a few weeks and will meet up again and I will have his coins, at the original price agreed upon. Why? Because I had said that I would and that's enough for me, and for him, too.[/QUOTE]