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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed23, post: 2161750, member: 32117&quot;]John, do you ever read and think before replying? I ask because your response says you don&#039;t. The novice did not try to sell me fakes. We live 600 miles apart and have never met. He knows me by reputation and therefore feels he can trust my opinion and honest actions on his behalf due to how I treated someone he does know. He sent me coins he has purchased during the past 20 years to evaluate, list and sell for him on consignment. HE ALREADY OWNED THE COINS, as in past tense, and he had no record of what dealers sold them to him. So he is not mad at me, or anyone else, and would not be buying more coins anyway since he decided to liquidate his collection. I feel bad for him because he was expecting $5000+/- and instead will get a few hundred. In light of the news that his collection consists of mostly counterfeits, a consolation prize might have been that his fakes contained some silver, so that he could have gotten at least 1% back of his loss (due to the small silver content) rather than nothing. I&#039;m sure you&#039;ve heard the old saying, &quot;Something is better than nothing&quot;, well 1% is better than zero.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another example to try and get thru to you what I&#039;ve been saying. Say you had made it a habit of dropping your change in a cup for months with the thought of going thru it later, then one day you start to fish out quarters only to discover you have received $25 in counterfeit quarters, which shop gave you those fake quarters? Would you be pissed off at every store you remembered buying anything from during the previous months? I can&#039;t speak for you but most people would not. So you have $25 in counterfeit quarters in hand. Do you try to pass them off to someone else, or take it out off circulation? Would you rather the 100 quarters (you already have in hand) be counterfeit clad quarters, or counterfeit silver quarters? If you&#039;ve ALREADY lost $25 would you rather just stamp them all &quot;COPY&quot; and throw them away because they are clad junk, or be able to recoup some of your loss from them from the silver content?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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