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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 403823, member: 112&quot;]Yes Jack it is one of them. It doesn&#039;t matter if it is an old lady, a pre-teen or a man in is 30&#039;s.&nbsp; But most judge it that it is different if the young or the elderly are involved. But if someone walks into a bank and tries to cash in a roll of silver coins for face value and the teller doesn&#039;t point out to that customer that they could get much nmore money for the coins elsewhere - that then the teller is guilty of some indiscretion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or the senario of cherrypicking a dealer, or another collector, or Joe Blow on the street trying to sell his coins at the flea market. Regardless of the scenario, it is always the same - one person has knowledge and the other does not. So should should the person with the knowledge inform the other is the true question. And if they do not, then is the person with knowledge guilty of an indiscretion ? </p><p><br /></p><p>That is why I brought up the scenario of finding money on the street. Those same people who would say that the person with knowledge committed an indiscretion would put the money found on the street in their pockets quite readily. All the while knowing that they were taught not to do that when they were children. </p><p><br /></p><p>My point being, that sometimes ethics matter to people and other times ethics do not matter to those same people. It&#039;s kind of like the other old saying - judge not lest ye be judged.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say this, I have been behind a customer at a bank cashing in rolls of coins. That person was elderly. And when I saw that the coins were silver I stepped up, informed them that they could get much more for the coins elsewhere because they were silver, but yet the person looked at me and said, thanks, I know that, but I just want to cash them in - which they did.</p><p><br /></p><p>So ya see, while we are all judging others and stating what we would do in a given situation, we are at the same time making assumptions of facts that we may not know. Some elderly folks are well aware of what they have, they&#039;ve been on this earth a lot longer than us and we should not always assume that they are ignorant. They make their choices and they do what they do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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