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topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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A dealer friend of mine got had.
Guy comes in and asks for buy price on Mex 50 P.
Dlr quotes.
Guy hands over 2 flips with an Onza under the 50P.
They're REEEEALLLL close in appearance. Even size is close.
Dlr pays for two 50 Pesos coins.
Gets had.
Be careful.



Comments

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wait. Dealer was too busy to give even an instantaneous glance at the coin beneath to see that it was a $19 ounce of silver rather than a $1435 ounce and a fifth of gold?

    What if it had been another 50 peso but had been badly damaged? Holed? Tooled?

    Even if it was 22k gold plated he should have noticed it.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wait. Dealer was too busy to give even an instantaneous glance at the coin beneath to see that it was a $19 ounce of silver rather than a $1435 ounce and a fifth of gold?

    What if it had been another 50 peso but had been badly damaged? Holed? Tooled?

    Even if it was 22k gold plated he should have noticed it. >>



    It was a GOLD Onza under the 50p.
  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I weigh each piece if I don't know the customer , just common sense.
    https://www.ebay.com/str/christyscoins
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I weigh each piece if I don't know the customer , just common sense. >>



    No need in this case. They have different legends.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A dealer friend of mine got had.
    Guy comes in and asks for buy price on Mex 50 P.
    Dlr quotes.
    Guy hands over 2 flips with an Onza under the 50P.
    They're REEEEALLLL close in appearance. Even size is close.
    Dlr pays for two 50 Pesos coins.
    Gets had.
    Be careful. >>



    It's the dealer's own dang fault for not being careful.

    I once had a guy come in with a tube of Maple Leafs with the tube cut down so that it held nine maple leafs tightly. Said he wanted to sell ten maple leafs. I opened the tube, not noticing that it had been cut down, laid them out on a tray and counted nine. He professed ignorance, and said that he had bought it that way and been cheated.

    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>A dealer friend of mine got had.
    Guy comes in and asks for buy price on Mex 50 P.
    Dlr quotes.
    Guy hands over 2 flips with an Onza under the 50P.
    They're REEEEALLLL close in appearance. Even size is close.
    Dlr pays for two 50 Pesos coins.
    Gets had.
    Be careful. >>



    It's the dealer's own dang fault for not being careful.

    I once had a guy come in with a tube of Maple Leafs with the tube cut down so that it held nine maple leafs tightly. Said he wanted to sell ten maple leafs. I opened the tube, not noticing that it had been cut down, laid them out on a tray and counted nine. He professed ignorance, and said that he had bought it that way and been cheated.

    TD >>


    cant be to careful. always check and you did image
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