- Feb 1, 2006
- 1,580
- 1,745
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- Whites (CM 5000, XLT, VX3) and Minelab (Svgn GT & Excal III & Equinox)
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Fellow Treasure Hunters --- There's a fungus among-us!
Here's the scoop --- bought a small lot of silver coins and wwii memorabilia (6 items) from a dealer at a flea market in Central Jersey a few weeks ago. Never saw her before until last weekend. She had a table out with a variety of items including these items in a small case. It was very early in the A.M. and when I came up to the table she asked if I was interested in coins. I told her no (I don't usually buy coins). She told me I've got these old coins and some military medals --- "I know they are very valuable but I only need to get $75.00 for them." I took a look at them -- Worn out looking 1890's silver dollars and a few German looking military pins. I debated the purchase with my treasure hunting buddies and then we decided "why not?" (I foolishly argued in favor of buying them)
Got home -- Silver Dollars are silver over copper. Bummer. Military medals are Chineese reproductions of two of the absolute rarest German medals (a nazi gardening badge and a skull badge).
No great loss and I presumed the dealer just made a mistake. BUT THEN ...... at a garage sale last week I am waiting to look at some magazines when I hear "I know they are very valuable but I only need to get $75.00". I couldn't believe it. There she was sitting at a table with the same little case with another assortnment of coins and medals. I told her they were fakes and she became very belligerent (including racist remarks to my Asian hunting buddy and my father). She packed her stuff up and into a bag and started heading to her car. The owner of the house said she came by that morning and said she lived in the neighborhood but didn't have time to have her own sale and asked if she could set up the table. His wife gave her permission, but they had never seen her before.
Any description of the "offender" would be too general to do anything but make people nervous ---- just watch our for any older lady hocking silver coins and military medals from a small case in Central / South Jersey.
Here's the scoop --- bought a small lot of silver coins and wwii memorabilia (6 items) from a dealer at a flea market in Central Jersey a few weeks ago. Never saw her before until last weekend. She had a table out with a variety of items including these items in a small case. It was very early in the A.M. and when I came up to the table she asked if I was interested in coins. I told her no (I don't usually buy coins). She told me I've got these old coins and some military medals --- "I know they are very valuable but I only need to get $75.00 for them." I took a look at them -- Worn out looking 1890's silver dollars and a few German looking military pins. I debated the purchase with my treasure hunting buddies and then we decided "why not?" (I foolishly argued in favor of buying them)
Got home -- Silver Dollars are silver over copper. Bummer. Military medals are Chineese reproductions of two of the absolute rarest German medals (a nazi gardening badge and a skull badge).
No great loss and I presumed the dealer just made a mistake. BUT THEN ...... at a garage sale last week I am waiting to look at some magazines when I hear "I know they are very valuable but I only need to get $75.00". I couldn't believe it. There she was sitting at a table with the same little case with another assortnment of coins and medals. I told her they were fakes and she became very belligerent (including racist remarks to my Asian hunting buddy and my father). She packed her stuff up and into a bag and started heading to her car. The owner of the house said she came by that morning and said she lived in the neighborhood but didn't have time to have her own sale and asked if she could set up the table. His wife gave her permission, but they had never seen her before.
Any description of the "offender" would be too general to do anything but make people nervous ---- just watch our for any older lady hocking silver coins and military medals from a small case in Central / South Jersey.
