Greek Coin With An Error?

malissa,
I wouldn't feel guilty about cheery picking in a bin like that at a coin shop. Most coin dealers have one. The price is reasonable to. My coin shop has similar bins at different price ranges. I can get bags of coins (don't get to pick the coins, the bags are pre-made) for 8-10 cents a coin.

Great find on the Drachma!

I have bought coins before that seemed expensive (to me at the time) and then gotten home and looked them up and saw that they were worth 4 or 5 times what I paid. But I have always assumed maybe I am grading too high. I'm learning through this forum that I was actually right and they are worth more and it just surprises me that even a dealer can make a mistake about what they are selling. Though with this dealer I mentioned before he felt that certain coins were "ugly" and therefor less valuable to people. That's usually how I bought a lot of my silver coins, the ones he felt were "ugly" To me its weird, I havent yet seen a coin that I thought was ugly......except of course a lovely xf40 1888 Morgan dollar that my brother in law holed.

lol I wish I could but I have a funny feeling if I tried that I would become the newest paid buyer on the forum. Id spend 20 hours a day sorting through bins and mailing out bags of coins.

oops. sorry grace. I thought we were just joking.

It was half-hearted

He seems to be a very good dealer that has been selling many years, yet at the same time he had quite a lot of what I consider collectors sets and items. Like uncut rolls of dollar bills and mint sets, and only a few binders of actual unslabbed/uncased coins of more rare values. He had 1 binder that I would pick something out of every weekend that was usually 1800's US coins but even now I am surprised at how much he would undergrade some items (which of course I would buy) I have never made it to a different coins store/or flea market setting yet to really compare his set up to any other. Maybe I just got really lucky with him and should count my blessings.

He also did try most weekends to convince me that the error market was going nowhere and I should not waste my 2x2's on anything that seemed odd looking or was an obvious error.

He kind of told it to me this way: If I saw a television at the store and all the buttons were labeled wrong at the factory, would I buy it and hide it away because its an error? Kind of silly!

DL20K,
These should help:
http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglos...rypicker.htm
http://coins.about.com/b/2007/07/21...ypicking.htm