A Crook Who Tried To Accuse Me Of Being A Crook.

Today I went to a pawn shop called to look at some silver coins. I rarely go to this shop because there is very limited parking, and the owner prices his coins too high. But I had some time to kill before work, so I decided to go in. He pulled out a tray of an assortment of silver coins. There was a 1972 Eisenhower 40% silver coin, some Walking Liberty halves, two 1964 Kennedy's, a few silver dimes, Washington quarters, and some Morgan & Peace dollars. As I was looking through, I clearly saw some counterfeits of both Morgan & Peace dollars. I asked if he had a magnet so I could test these out. He agreed and told me to take a speaker off the shelf. As I was doing that, I must have not realized that I had some coins in my left hand that were mine and NOT his (I included a picture below), and he snapped at me and confronted me like a shoplifter. He asked what I put in my pocket, and I showed him MY coins, and he asked for me to show what was in my other pocket, so I did and there was nothing. He proceeds to try to lecture me about how he trusted me, and I made it look like I was shoplifting. Now I suppose he was justified in his assumption, but for this man to talk about trust soon proved that he is nothing but a hypocrite, because once I grabbed a speaker off the shelf and did the magnet test, not surprisingly, several of the coins stuck to it; there were a few genuine coins, but at least half were fake. I told him that these stick to a magnet while others didn't, and he said something about metals stick to a magnet. I asked him how much the "fakes" are, without calling them that, and he said $40 a piece. This jerk is pricing his fake coins the same as his genuines, and the funny thing is the fake coins look completely fake, even for a counterfeit. I think even blind people would be able to tell that those coins were counterfeits. If he priced the counterfeits dollars at $1 a piece, I might have actually bought them, just to help educate myself on what counterfeit dollars look and feel like.

If you go to this link and scroll down, he is the guy on the left. http://pages.areaguides.com/WheatonTradeCenter/



The coins you see in this picture are the exact ones I had in my left pocket. Now before you start saying, "Well you had two 40% silver Kennedy half dollars on you, so I can see why he got mad", listen up: This guy's knowledge on coins is limited, at best. For example, I said that the 1972 (40%) Eisenhower is not pure silver, and he said "Yeah it's not pure silver", but yet he didn't tell me it was 40% silver. If I had asked what kind of coin that was, he would not have told me that it's only 40% silver. He would have just said, "It's silver" because to him, silver is silver. When I came into his store in the past, he priced a 1967 Kennedy half at $20, which was the same price as his 1964 Kennedy's. Now ask yourself, would someone that has more than just basic knowledge about coins price a 90% and 40% silver coin the same thing?

And if a very intelligent coin collector is to walk into his shop, he or she would just laugh their way out of his store as his dimes were priced $8 a piece, quarters at $10 a piece, half dollars at $20 a piece and dollar coins at $40 a piece.

Why is this guy a crook? He is a crook because while I pointed out that some of these coins are fakes, he acted like he knew that, but mixed them in with genuine coins. The question is, does this guy tell that to his customers? I have my doubts. I bet some n00b who looks at those coins will be told by him that they are all genuine.

Oh yeah, and if anybody remembers my topic about how I bought a fake "silver" coin for $10, let me say this is not the same pawn shop. That one is in Dale City, VA, and this one is in Wheaton, MD.

Okay I am done ranting for tonight, but I have one last question: At my pizza shop, there is a police officer who comes in occasionally for pick up. I am wondering if I should let him know about this guy who is selling counterfeit coins?