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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ctrl, post: 364772, member: 13378&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I took several coins into my nearest coin shop the other day to have people more knowledgeable than me see them in person and give me their opinions. They weren&#039;t anything incredibly special, but were all in VF-XF+ condition, a capped bust half and a seated liberty dime in particular. I like these two coins and wanted to know what he thought the value would be, what I should do with them and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer, who I&#039;ve had a very good experience with so far took a look, wanted some of the other coins I brought in and had some questions about these two particular coins. They weren&#039;t key or even semi-key dates and they weren&#039;t in MS condition but he questioned whether they were real, said something just wasn&#039;t right to him. So he asked if he could see them outside the container (airtite, etc). After taking out the coin, and he did this with both of them, he weighed them, and then proceeded to quickly flip them end-over-end in his hands with his fingers touching the faces (not the center, but definitely not just the edges) and dropped them on the glass counter to hear the sound of the material a couple of times. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was frankly a little shocked by the rough handling of my coins and didn&#039;t know if I was over-reacting or not since I&#039;m no professional and he goes through so many more coins than I ever have. I am very careful with my coins, even breathing cautiously when examining them raw. Assuming his hands were dry (I don&#039;t see any fingerprints on the coins after getting them back), is this kind of handling generally ok and I&#039;m just oversensitive? I know the value isn&#039;t that much on these, but I was still a little taken aback. What do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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