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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2060652, member: 27832&quot;]Please try to understand our point of view.</p><p><br /></p><p>You: &quot;I have this one-sided penny, how much is it worth?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Us: &quot;Probably not much. It looks like it was damaged. Here&#039;s why we don&#039;t think it could be an error coin.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You: &quot;Oh, I forgot to tell you, we got its exact weight, diameter and elemental composition at a university, and oh, yeah, someone already offered us $48,000 for it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Us: &lt;starting to get a <i>little</i> bit skeptical&gt;</p><p><br /></p><p>See, the thing is, people come here all the time asking about odd coins. Quite a few of them have coins with one side ground off, or coins that have been damaged in other ways. We try to explain. Sometimes, if it&#039;s the third or fourth damaged coin that day, some of us will get a little short with the new poster; that&#039;s not good, but we&#039;re folks having conversations, not paid professional consultants, and some of us can be a bit abrasive on our best days. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When a beginner starts to <i>argue</i> with people who are much more knowledgeable, yes, the heat can get turned up a little bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is especially true when the beginner starts to make completely unbelievable claims about what he&#039;s been offered for the coin. That happens from time to time; we had one poster who kept at it for <i>years</i>, no matter how much evidence we presented to the contrary. (He said he&#039;d been offered seven figures for a coin that was worth at most a thousand or so; I think he was holding out for eight figures.)</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve got every right to challenge people here, of course. It&#039;s just that making dubious claims, and rejecting advice from knowledgeable members, isn&#039;t likely to get you taken seriously.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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