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**haittiweerved** · 05-16-2012, 06:18 PM

The story sounds plausible to me. I'm not a professional numismatist, but I know things about coins that even people who run coin shops don't know (off topic, but I had a conversation with a guy working the counter at a coin shop nearby and he didn't know all that much about coins). So this jeweler calls a friend who he knows has an eye for coins and can give him some info, so he does. However, like osoab mentioned, the fact that the bag was all 1885 CC and that didn't raise a flag with the jeweler is almost unbelievable, and the fact that a guy would simply leave all that silver (known fake or not) with someone else is also hard to buy. I wonder if the seller is planning something underhand, like come back and when he's told the coins are fake call out the jeweler as a thief, that those aren't the coins I brought in, you switched them on me, etc.

05-16-2012, 06:18 PM	#17
haittiweerved Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 340 Senior Member	The story sounds plausible to me. I'm not a professional numismatist, but I know things about coins that even people who run coin shops don't know (off topic, but I had a conversation with a guy working the counter at a coin shop nearby and he didn't know all that much about coins). So this jeweler calls a friend who he knows has an eye for coins and can give him some info, so he does. However, like osoab mentioned, the fact that the bag was all 1885 CC and that didn't raise a flag with the jeweler is almost unbelievable, and the fact that a guy would simply leave all that silver (known fake or not) with someone else is also hard to buy. I wonder if the seller is planning something underhand, like come back and when he's told the coins are fake call out the jeweler as a thief, that those aren't the coins I brought in, you switched them on me, etc.
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