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Is the Coin Shopping Network Guy a respected member of the coin community?

2ltdjorn2ltdjorn Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭
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Watching him sell junk and likely ripping off people, is he a respected member of the Numismatic guild?

WTB... errors, New Orleans gold, and circulated 20th key date coins!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A former used car salesman who flunked and was demoted..... >:) Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No.

    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.
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    respected?

    Very funny

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crooked as a dog's hind leg.

  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He can talk!

  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Caveat Emptor never goes out of style.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 11:28AM

    Like all predators he preys on the weak

    Sad

    Sadder for those like me who know some of his victims

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 11:36AM

    I can think of at least three active PNG members that are similar, and most collectors respect PNG members so I guess it depends on what your definition of “respected” is. I’m not impressed with him, but then again I have a dim view of many of the big players in this hobby.

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I never heard of the guy until came on TV as a coin barket / "expert." The answer is no.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What's the problem? I bought my entire collection from him. It's an investment that will give me a lucrative retirement! He said so himself!

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 12:07PM

    @topstuf said:

    @topstuf Isn't that BNB you-know-who? Ewww. If it is, Triple Ewwwww!

    Kind regards,

    George

    VDBCoins.com Our Registry Sets Many successful BSTs; pls ask.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:
    What's the problem? I bought my entire collection from him. It's an investment that will give me a lucrative retirement! He said so himself!

    Yea, that set of 2008 platinum plated State Quarters has done wonders for your retirement fund. I about dropped out of my chair when I heard him call that “an investment” one night.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 12:15PM

    The only TV coin show I ever watched was "The Coin Vault" but I quit watching that when Robert Chambers died a few years ago. (He had some knowledge of the hobby) I never considered buying anything, even from Robert, but I like to watch his show, sometimes. I can remember thinking at the time, that ~90% of what they were selling was junk and usually priced at least twice the realistic market value and often more. So no respect given or deserved to these snake oil salesman.

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:
    I can think of at least three active PNG members that are similar, and most collectors respect PNG members so I guess it depends on what your definition of “respected” is. I’m not impressed with him, but then again I have a dim view of many of the big players in this hobby.

    I can think of 2 on the board of experts.

  • giorgio11giorgio11 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 12:29PM

    @BillJones said:

    @ms70 said:
    What's the problem? I bought my entire collection from him. It's an investment that will give me a lucrative retirement! He said so himself!

    Yea, that set of 2008 platinum plated State Quarters has done wonders for your retirement fund. I about dropped out of my chair when I heard him call that “an investment” one night.

    @BIllJones More like a divestment.

    Kind regards,

    George

    VDBCoins.com Our Registry Sets Many successful BSTs; pls ask.
  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:
    It's an investment that will give me a lucrative retirement!

    "Me" is the wrong pronoun in that sentence. Should have said "him"

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This morning I saw NGC MS64 Morgan's, 1885-O, at $40 off for only $139.99 while they last.
    Hurtful to the hobby.

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