Craigslist Fail

I collected forign coins as a kid in the 60's there wsa even a gumball type machine at a strip mall where for a quarter you'd get a plastic bubble with a few forign coins in them. I had older brohters in the military who would send me coins form Europe. When I got older I joined the AF and went to England. Kept a bunch of coins from when I was there in the 70's. A few years ago I went through them all and sorted them by country. I have some from almost every European country and many from Asia and the middle east. I din't find any that were worth much so I gave them all to my youngest son hoping he might take an interest in collecting coins. He really hasn't and I've been collecting US coins noew for a while. I wonder what will ever happen to them old gorign coins.

I see these all the times on craigslist, once in a while I see steals, most of the time I see Buffalo nickels for $10 each for worn dates.

Why is it that some fathers tell their sons they are giving them "rare" silver pennies? This happened to my friend and me when we were discussing coins in Starbucks over the summer. A total stranger came over to us and told us he had a rare "silver" 1943 penny, a family heirloom, he would sell us. I wanted to laugh and tell him it was made from steel, but my friend shook his head. He kindly thanked the man but turned him down. "Don't laugh," he told me after he left. "This is the typical level of knowledge most Americans have about coins."