What was your worst coin shop experience?

Hedger

Now that we have the good experiences pehaps some of the bad ones will help us all learn. My worst experience was at a shop in Annapolis MD. I won't name the place but I was not as up to speed as I am now with numismatics and this is where I made some of my worst and possibly most costly mistakes. How about a dealer giving you three times face value for Mercury dimes from the fourties in MS condition? I still don't know if that was really a good deal to this day since I don't collect the series. I don't know if there was a 1945 P full band or 2 over 1 variety in that lot. This is why it pays to read, read, read and of coarse come to these boards. Bottom line is to do your homework before you rush into a dealer to sell. Some dealers will tell you what you have and are honest but they are hard to come by anymore.

Wondo

As a teenager, I walked into the local dealer and asked what he would pay for my group of 25 or so Canadian cents from the teens, twenties and thirties. He said he wasn't much interested. I requested a price, he counted them up; it was like 27 coins. He took 27, multiplied it by the Canadian exchange rate and offered 20 cents.

I never went back in and he closed fairly quickly.

DNADave

Thats an easy one. A local dealer asked me if he could take a coin out of the 2x2 holder that it was in. I had brought in a full centered obverse brockage memorial cent that I had found in change. I (stupidly) said 'sure', and he proceeded to take the coin out of the 2x2 by peeling it open and removing the coin. He then began rubbing the coin with his thumb I knew enough at the time to know it was the wrong thing to do but I didn't get what was happening until I got home and saw the great big fresh scratch right across the coin I've never bought a single thing from that seller again and I never will.

coinfreak499

I had a 2002 NGC MS 70 G$5 coin. I took it to the dealer he said he'd have a problem getting $50 for it (wanted it for lower). Last time I went there.