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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 577125, member: 4552"]Not to be pessimistic but I once spent time explaining to a person about coins. Also, gave them extra Red Book and some not to expensive coins. Later turned out from a friend that knew that guy that he does this all the time. He gets lots of free stuff from people that way. </p><p>On another web site they were having a log of YN Giveaways. I too joined in and actually gave away a lot of coins to what I thought was YN's. Later I also found out that about half of the so called YN's were in reality much older coin collectors just getting free stuff. </p><p>When my Son was in college he told me a professor went around to all the little towns in the areas asking farmers if they had old coins so he could show them to students. Never really did of course. </p><p>Hopefully in this instance all is for real. I just may live in an area and find people of a not to honest nature.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 577125, member: 4552"]Not to be pessimistic but I once spent time explaining to a person about coins. Also, gave them extra Red Book and some not to expensive coins. Later turned out from a friend that knew that guy that he does this all the time. He gets lots of free stuff from people that way. On another web site they were having a log of YN Giveaways. I too joined in and actually gave away a lot of coins to what I thought was YN's. Later I also found out that about half of the so called YN's were in reality much older coin collectors just getting free stuff. When my Son was in college he told me a professor went around to all the little towns in the areas asking farmers if they had old coins so he could show them to students. Never really did of course. Hopefully in this instance all is for real. I just may live in an area and find people of a not to honest nature.[/QUOTE]
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