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Message:: [QUOTE="moneyer12, post: 1218014, member: 28233"]a few years back there was this guy who owned a "collectors shop" in the nearby town of st helens, i popped in one day to have a look at what he had in the way of coins, one caught my eye in his so called junk box a canadian mounted police 25 cent, i picked it out with a few others and asked him how much, at that point he produced the krause catalogue and proceeded to try and tell me that the values were in pounds not dollars, and that according to the book there was a rarer variety of the canadian coin and guess what? his example was that very same coin he then asked me for £120 for that coin alone. i just started laughing and asked him did he think i was mentally defective? or was i blind, i then showed him my british numismatic society membership card and i told him that he was a con man and that i would contact the society to have him blacklisted as a coin dealer, needless to say i never bought a single item from him but i did have the pleasure in seeing his business collapse after 3 month. these shysters get exactly what they deserve in the end.[/QUOTE]