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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2952064, member: 76863"]Someone having a shop does not make them an expert in grading or detecting counterfiets/doctored coins. Yes some shop owners can do it, but many cannot. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Without knowing what one should be looking for they shouldn't be buying raw coins of value especially not the key dates and the ones that have been counterfitted and altered the most. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That's kind of shady in all honesty. Basically no store front operates cash only now a days. I can understand them charging you for the credit card fees, but you just bought the most counterfeited and messed with coin there is raw with cash which means you have no recourse and just your word against the stores. I don't have high hopes for how this will end. If you can get out of the deal I would as fast as possible. There's a reason the coin is ungraded and cheaper than it should be, at best it's probably a details coin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2952064, member: 76863"]Someone having a shop does not make them an expert in grading or detecting counterfiets/doctored coins. Yes some shop owners can do it, but many cannot. Without knowing what one should be looking for they shouldn't be buying raw coins of value especially not the key dates and the ones that have been counterfitted and altered the most. That's kind of shady in all honesty. Basically no store front operates cash only now a days. I can understand them charging you for the credit card fees, but you just bought the most counterfeited and messed with coin there is raw with cash which means you have no recourse and just your word against the stores. I don't have high hopes for how this will end. If you can get out of the deal I would as fast as possible. There's a reason the coin is ungraded and cheaper than it should be, at best it's probably a details coin[/QUOTE]
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