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Fred Needs To Un-Retire ...
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.. as Now I am getting multiple questions each day on if someones odd coin is an error coin worth a fortune.
99% of the time the coin is PMD 
Part of the job I guess 
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Welcome to my “old “world!
Thanks Fred
Been doing that since 1974. At least I used to get paid for it.
TD
The guys in the Currency Department at Heritage get calls all the time from people who inherited some of the facsimile Confederate notes placed in cereal boxes back during the Civil War Centennial in the 1960s. "But, Grandpa had it for 60 years - it must be real!"
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You still could. Charge $10-$15 (cash, no checks of course) + shipping + insurance + processing fee to evaluate the coin in hand and send the submitter a letter.
But who will I send photos of my parking lot finds to?
@ErrorsOnCoins .... Comes with the territory.... When your skills are recognized, you become the 'go to' guy.... Good luck... Cheers, RickO
You don't think folks here don't steer people your way?
Fred, be thankful you never joined Instagram
I get the most error coin questions on the venues below from the most to the least ...
1) Instagram
2) eBay
3) This Coin Forum
4) Thru my website
5) Random email
6) Random text
7) Random phone call
I get them all the time in the shop. I try to help best as possible, but many times they just dont want to hear the truth. They still think they have a winner. I used to send them to fred
Now you have a new resource for them to contact and get an expert opinion!
I get my fair share of “error” questions at work. It’s pretty tedious. 😖
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Good to hear that the people I have been sending your way are getting through.
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Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Must be because of your "eye appeal".
An effective fix would be to announce:
"Sorry. Due to excessive workload, effective immediately, I must charge for my opinion about your coin. $10 minimum."
When I was working in a coin shop in Chicago I got a call one day from a person that had one of the common replicas which I knew of course, so I asked the guy if it had the word "FACSIMILE" on the back near the lower left border. He said yeah, and I told him that that meant it was a copy and the note had no value.
An hour later the same guy come into the store with the same note, only now the paper where the word FACSIMILE had been was torn off the note, leaving a small ragged rectangular gap in the note. I told him it was still fake even though he had torn the word off the note. He wanted to argue that it had to be real because it did not say FACSIMILE no more!