ISN’T ALWAYS TRUE THAT...

By Bill Fivaz

1.         Two weeks after you finally find that one coin you’ve been looking for during the past five years, you find another one just as nice and at 20% less?

2.         You didn’t see that hairline scratch on that $750 when you bought it and you’re certain it only came to the surface 3 days after your return privilege expired?

3.         The coin you sold last week for 30% under bid (because you’ve had it for 10 years and got tired of looking at it), appears in Collector’s Clearinghouse two weeks later as being a new, rare variety?

4.         You only drop the expensive coins—cheap ones never find their way into the yet undiscovered depths of your easy chair?

5.         The coin you just purchased five minutes ago as a VF (after talking the dealer down from his XF grade) now appears to really be an XF or maybe a low-end AU? (The ol’ “ownership is worth up to 5 points on the grading scale” syndrome).

6.         You’re always asked by customers if you have certain coins that you’ve left back at the shop “because nobody ever asks for those!”

7.         That coin you saw 20 minutes ago that you needed to complete your set and which you’ve just convinced yourself to buy was sold 5 minutes ago to an investor you thought it was “pretty”?

8.         When showing a proud new purchase to a friend, the usual comment goes something like: “That’s nice, but I sold a roll just last week and I know a guy who’s got a bag of them.”?

9.         While you’re completely engrossed in looking over a very promising stock box at a dealer’s table, some yahoo comes up behind you and silently but constantly peers over your shoulder?

10.        You finally spot the coin you’ve been looking for in a dealer’s locked case and he’s away from his table (and has been for over 2 hours_ - getting lunch or whatever? Needless to say, your ride home leaves in 10 minutes