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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3222637, member: 27832"]In a shop that doesn't specialize in coins and has a batch of cheap/badly-stored modern stuff, I'd have a hard time convincing myself that such a coin was genuine. But I'm not there, and I <i>have</i> found big surprises in pawnshops.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your question, though, if I could convince myself that the coin was real, I'd <i>still</i> make a lowball offer, just to mitigate my own risk. If I pay no more than half of what I know I could get for genuine coins, I can afford to be wrong up to 50% of the time. Sort of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3222637, member: 27832"]In a shop that doesn't specialize in coins and has a batch of cheap/badly-stored modern stuff, I'd have a hard time convincing myself that such a coin was genuine. But I'm not there, and I [I]have[/I] found big surprises in pawnshops. To answer your question, though, if I could convince myself that the coin was real, I'd [I]still[/I] make a lowball offer, just to mitigate my own risk. If I pay no more than half of what I know I could get for genuine coins, I can afford to be wrong up to 50% of the time. Sort of.[/QUOTE]
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