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So I get a call today.....

JamericonJamericon Posts: 445 ✭✭✭
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....From some guy at Last Call Coins in New York (????). He starts by telling me of some hoard of old coins found recently which included lots of Franklin Half rolls. Supposedly in CW and Coinage. (Not to say that is not true, but I never read about that.) Of course all the coins are 64/65 quality and all FBL! Says that Franklin's set the all time record for the all time greatest price increase in all time history (????). In fact so great that 65 Franklins sell for $185 a coin! Raw!! Did he have an ANA number?. Not with him at the time. How about PNG? Thats at home also. So anyway, I can buy these coins by the roll for $17.50 a pop. And they will not all be commons. So I start to ask him why not slab the better dates, make a bigger fortune. Why not go to Baltimore and sell them OTC. Well, thats when he hung up on me. But not after begging me for 1% of my time and 100% of my money.

I have been around too long and read too much to be this stupid. But in two decades of this hobby that is my first ever cold call! Pretty cool to hear how these a**holes work. What upsets me more is how he even got my phone number at work.
Jamie Yakes - U.S. paper money collector, researcher, and author. | Join the SPMCUS Small-Size Notes, National Bank Notes, and NJ Depression Scrip

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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    No wonder he hung up on you. You have some nerve! How dare you know enough to not fall for that lame hype! image

    Did any dealer ever have your work number? Could an employee have quit and taken information from the client list with him?

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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    EvilMCTEvilMCT Posts: 799 ✭✭✭
    I can't believe you blew it! Had it not been for your tom foolery, you could've made a mint! I sure hope he calls me so I can <ahem> talk to him. image

    Ken
    my knuckles, they bleed, on your front door
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    fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You didn't ask if you could look at them on approval?image
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    indianabyronindianabyron Posts: 1,023
    You should have told him you would like to order 5 million$ worth. Then ask him if you can use a check drawn on the bank of Sadam Hussien Located in Bagdad Iraq.



    LOL that would have gotten him to hung up quicker. lol


    Byron
    Im unemployed again after 1.5 years with Kittyhawk they let me go. image

    My first YOU SUCK on May 6 2005

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