Not Sure If Anyone Else Has This Happen To Them Or Not

I had an older gentleman, in line behind me, at the grocery store when I spent some Presidential dollars and he told me they had gold in them. When I informed him that they did not he was very defensive and thought that I was stupid. I just shook my head and left.

One guy I work with was going down to the bank and buying rolls of prez dollars when they first came out. He would get 8 rolls every payday which was every 2 weeks. I saw him in the back getting some and asked why he was buying them, he responded that he liked them that is why. The next day at worked he came over to tell that I should be getting all that I can because each one was 1oz of gold and it was only a $1. Gold is going up he said so you can get real rich real quick, but not to tell anyone one else. I just acted surprised and told him thanks for the tip.

Very true, and sometimes the first thing someone hears or thinks of is what they will fight to the death for, even if they doubt it.

Another one ?!
Last month I passed at wawa and the wawa girl told me .. It ll be $2.25 ! So I gave her 5 halves then she looked at the coins and looked very serious on my eyes and said : and what is it ? I said .. Halves . Half dollars ! So she checked again the coins and told me : you are short on 25 cents ! I said let me see the coins then look half plus half = $1 , half plus half =$2 +half = $2.50 you own me a quarter ! She told me : I know what half is then gave me the change and the other customers in line were laughing from the whole thing !

Great topic and posts, When I started collecting coins about 3 short years ago. One of the first things I bought was 20 Dateless Buffalo nickels. The description said Hurry and buy now before silver gets any higher. Even though they were dateless I knew they were pre65. I won the bid at $23, I was so excited I found 3 similar lots and bought them too. Needless to say I thought I was doing good. So when my father questioned my small silver hoard, I showed him all my Buffalo nickles and he couldn't stop laughing, I though it was due to the amount, but he quickly let me know my error. Good thing I had some junk silver to save some dignity. lol

Chadwick I'm the same way. I've witnessed coin shops pull the rug out from under people who clearly needed the money. Theirs one dealer who sells commemorative's still in the capsules. Out of a big tote, for under melt. Some really good deals, but I won't go back into his store from the things I seen him do. The last one was an old man selling 22karat solid gold necklaces 48grams worth. The dealer offered $400 quietly, but the elderly man repeated it. The dealer swore it was a good deal, nowhere else was going to offer him that much. And that it was old, none of those styles were in anymore. The man tried to sell just 1 but the dealer said no its not worth it, all or nothing. Luckily the man picked up on a few patrons shaking their heads. And left. Gold was around S1300 at the time.

I agree Chadwick, I am like you. There aren't very many honest people like us out there. I've heard of and seen people screw people over so bad, it's sad.

Went into the coin shop last week and the guy handed me back a $2 bill with the change. He kind of joked about it being valuable and I told him it was probably one I used to pay for a purchase the other day. He laughed and showed me a whole stack of them and said everybody was bringing them in because they thought they were valuable. That got use talking about what people hold onto thinking they are worth a whole lot more than they are. Then he pulled up a huge bag of Presidential dollars. Probably $500.00 worth of them. Some people brought them in thinking they were gold...

I've had the same experience when my couson came to me saying she had 30 silver dollars. She came to me with 15 SBA and 15 Ikes. I calmly said to her that these were made of copper and nickel...so she took them and then pelted me with them...