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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 58607, member: 669&quot;]It can&#039;t be said often enough - buy the book before the coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>There are antique dealers, flea market sellers, EBay sellers, TV hucksters, and many other folks out there busy setting traps for the unwary.&nbsp; They price a $2 coin at $40 and allow themselves to be bargained down to $10. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Or, they make outrageous claims of rarity or condition on ordinary examples of common coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Most</i> professional coin dealers, and many EBay sellers, price their coins fairly and make reasonably accurate claims about theim; but a dealer I patronize regularly would willingly acknowledge that his opinion on a Morgan Dollar would be worthless.&nbsp; He really knows his Meiji and Taisho Japanese coins, so that&#039;s what I buy from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an effective shield against both fraud and ignorance, and that shield is knowledge. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Repeat:&nbsp; Buy the book before the coin!&nbsp; (And if you can&#039;t afford the book, ask yourself why you think you can afford the coin.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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