Numismatics

Those Cheating Coin Dealers Will Rip You Off!

Or maybe not

Anthony Lawrence (Pcunix)

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Collectibles, History, Knowledge

6 min readNov 12, 2020

1877 Indian cent, Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries, used by permission. — Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries, used by permission.

When she dumped the coins on the counter and shoved the newspaper ad at me, I knew I had a problem. Mike was offering to buy average circulated coins, these were junk: corroded, clipped, some had been…

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