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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3309685, member: 76086&quot;]John,</p><p><br /></p><p>I can totally relate to your story, both with cars and coins.&nbsp; Back in 1988, I was just 19, but had a good job and income.&nbsp; I went to the Toyota dealership to buy a pickup.&nbsp; Well, a long story short, the salesman decided I was just a dumbass with no money and sent me on my way.&nbsp; I went literally next door to the Isuzu dealership and bought my truck.&nbsp; When the transaction was complete I drove my new truck to that Toyota dealership, honking my horn and flipping that salesman the &#039;bird&#039;.&nbsp; I still have that truck, though it doesn&#039;t run!</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin story?&nbsp; Maybe 1985 or so, I was at a coin show.&nbsp; There was a hoard of Gallic antoninianii at the time.&nbsp; For some reason I thought I could find a Laelianus or something similarly rare.&nbsp; A dealer had a basket of a couple hundred of these, $8 each, I decided to look through them.&nbsp; I was maybe halfway through, he got really pissed off, said something like &#039;If you aren&#039;t gong to buy anything dont waste my time&#039;, and scooped all the coins back into the basket.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ah well. At the very next table, a dealer had a nice Hadrian sestertius with Roma seated.&nbsp; I did not hesitate at $450, which might be $1,000 today.&nbsp; The other dealer looked like he just missed the &#039;golden goose&#039;, though that was pretty much all the money I had at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Flash forward some years.&nbsp; I was selling cars (and coins).&nbsp; One of the things I have learned all these years, one never knows who has money and who does not.&nbsp; Some people may look like bums but have far more cash than the average.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yikes.&nbsp; Am I getting off topic?&nbsp; What was the question?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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