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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1651761, member: 42034&quot;]<b>coin bought in mall over Xmas vacation in Panama</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This guy wanted to befriend me in Linkedin back when I was in the US before Xmas vacation.&nbsp; He was a precious metals broker in Panama so I thought “okay” and sent him a query as to whether he had any old coins he wanted to sell.&nbsp; He replied by sending me a picture of the most beautiful Costa Rican gold escudo I’d ever seen (one side only: the other side with the date remained yet to be photographed), and said the coin was dated 1853 with a requested price of $750.&nbsp; I replied &amp; agreed to his price when we got to Panama.&nbsp; However he would only accept cash and wanted to meet at a gas station along side of a main road into Panama City.&nbsp; After a small altercation with my wife about spending the $750, I agreed to meet him at one of Panama’s biggest malls.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He had a small paper jewlry box from which he produced a worn 1853 Costa Rican gold escudo.&nbsp; My grade was exf-45 but maybe the coin could make a 50, maybe not.&nbsp; I was so disappointed that the coin pictured was not the coin in hand that I negotiated almost too aggressively.&nbsp; Finally he consented to my offer of $280.&nbsp; In retrospect I am thinking that tho the coin is not a gem, it’s a tougher date of these and probably didn’t travel too far from the place of it’s making, to my collection in it’s past 150 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/CostaRica.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/CostaRica.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/CostaRica.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; The edge irregularity is, I think, as made and not a rim bruise.</p><p><br /></p><p>In restrospect the photo he sent me is from Heritage&#039;s website.&nbsp; It&#039;s the nicest Costan Rican Escudo they&#039;ve ever sold but is of a common date: I think 1850.&nbsp; Below is my 1853 escudo.&nbsp; I do feel bad about being very aggressive in negotiating but usually when one sells an old coin, the photo sent is in similar grade to the actual coin being sold.</p><p>[ATTACH]240942.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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