Numismatics And Ethics

eBay sellers should agree to a few of these at least, not that I would ever expect that to be a requirement.

The PNG code is a good one to live by. I have given a talk on ethics at my coin club There are many subtleties in numismatic ethics that go beyond the PNG code, things that come up all the time. Some examples include:

- If you are at a dealer's table and someone walks up and asks for something, do you say that you know this is available a few tables away for less?
- If a person is trying to sell something at a show and is taking offers, can you make an offer as a person walking the floor of the show?
- You see a VF-30/35 that you think is undergraded, do you crack it out and sell it as an XF? Should someone else's opinion be more valid than yours?
- What about a coin slabbed as cleaned that you think doesn't look so bad. Crack out and cross-over? Crack out and sell raw?
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Lots of others

All nicely said. To bad just doesn't happen all the time.