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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1838608, member: 15929"]I went to a place in Sacramento that when I asked for IKE Dollars, they asked what year I was looking for. I said 1971-D and they brought out about 4 of them from the back.They never did bring out a group to go through. I expect that a lot of coin shops are actually in the market for dummies. Hole fillers if you will. Folks that simply need a specific date and mintmark and they don't rreally care what it looks like! I see these folks at coin shows. They'll run up to a dealer and ask if they have any silver proof sets from 2002. The dealer will pull one out and the dummy just buys it with only a cursory glance. As for the OP, I expect that the dealer either had a slight of hand theft and/or word got back that they'd been cherrypicked! As such, they now want to control what folks see. That's too bad since they'll lose business out of the fear of not wanting someone to make a buck or two off of them. Of course, they could always do the research themselves but then that might require some work. Bottom line, "Know your inventory", "Know your regular clientele", don't be so paranoid.[/QUOTE]