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I've seen plenty of articles online about coins that were clearly not written by collectors. If you find any quotes (not necessarily online) that are inaccurate, make no sense or just outright absurd, post them here. For those of you that don't use Bing as a search engine, on the homepage there's a bar at the bottom that shows trending searches. Naturally when I saw one about an 1894-S Barber dime selling at auction, I had to click on it. In one of the articles I that came up (published by ebay) I saw this: Quote:
Give the coins in your pocket a second look - one of them may be a super-rare 1894-S dime, one of the rarest coins ever minted. Yeah, like that would ever happen. |
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haha just finding any barber date in your pocket change would be amazing. Even a merc would be pretty difficult unless you are actively going to the bank and searching boxes!
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I wonder if coin dealers across the nation are going to be inundated with calls from people with common date, low grade Barber dimes thinking that they have themselves $1.2 million bucks. Surely there will be at least a few. |
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Yup, I've heard of scenarios when people hear that 1913 Liberty Head nickels are worth millions of dollars, and then decide that their circulated 1903 must be worth more because it's older.
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Yup, I've heard of scenarios when people hear that 1913 Liberty Head nickels are worth millions of dollars, and then decide that their circulated 1903 must be worth more because it's older. Research and common sense are a thing of the past. |
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Unfortunately, it's true.
Edited by Numisma
01/08/2016 8:32 pm
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Yeah, more than a few individuals will think they're set to retire off their worn Barber dime after reading this. I'm amazed how many people bring "silver pennies" into the LCS each day I'm there sniffing out new arrivals. That being said, there are plenty of distractions in this day and age to dumb-us-down properly. |
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It's just sense now, it sure isn't common. It's barely sense.
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I found this on one of the lame coin forums: Quote:
Not long ago I was in a very small coin and stamp shop. A guy came in and started looking at some very expensive gold coins. Then he asks the store owner "Do any of these have any numtistic value?" Not sure if numismatic was purposely misspelled or not. If not, the story is even funnier. |
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There is so much misinformation out there when it comes to coin collecting. I've yet to find a barber in circulation, did find a Mercury dime once. |
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My grandfather found an 1886 Seated dime back in the '70s. It's mine now. Quote:Yeah, more than a few individuals will think they're set to retire off their worn Barber dime after reading this. I would love to see the looks on their faces when they hear 'well, I'll give you a dollar for it.' |
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Not a quote as much as a story, but...
About a year or so ago I had these two guys, age about 20 or so, come up to my teller window thinking they were in for some kind of financial windfall with a 1989 2000-peso note they had. Apparently it was given to them as recompense for something (we are in the central US, mind you). You should have seen the look on their faces when I told them that not only is it barely worth a dime, but that it also hasn't been legal tender in Mexico for 20 years.
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I had a friend back in college who fell for the "free silver from banks" thing. Literally spent an entire day driving around from bank to bank and demanding that the tellers go into the vault and give him their secret stash of 1964 half dollars for face.
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 Sad, yet funny at the same time! |
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Sad, yet funny at the same time! I feel a little bit bad telling someone that the coin they think is worth millions of dollars is really only worth a few cents, but I can't help laughing a bit at the same time.  My piano teacher told me she has some coins she inherited from her father, and that I could take a look at them sometime. I have a feeling it will be a situation like that, although I would still like to see. Edited by Numisma
01/10/2016 02:02 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Misinformed people are common is all hobbies, sports, jobs, etc. It is just common when you hear people talking and you know what is real and what isn't.
On a TV program about cars a lady said how much she loves her 1957 Chevy Impala and does all the work on it herself. 57 Impala?
Ever watch that coin show on TV? Few days ago that so called person that knows coins was handling Silver Half Dollars in his hands. Fingers all over them.
Ever see that Movie called China Syndrome. If you know Nuclear power stations you would really get a laugh about how they show them in that movie.
You can fool some of the people all the time but can't fool all the people all the time. Or can you?
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Posted 01/08/2016 6:43 pm
