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Poetic Justice: The Scammer Who Scammed HimselfBy Robertson Shinnick I was in Bill Wright's coin shop in Asheville, North Carolina, about ten years ago. It was a busy day, with lots of customers and browsers moving in and out of the shop. In the midst of all this business, a man walked in and offered to sell Bill two or three rolls of Buffalo nickels. Not having time to examine the coins very closely, Bill opened each wrapper on the ends, peeked in, saw circulated Buffaloes at the end of each of the rolls, and quoted the man his usual buy price for average circulated Buffaloes. The customer accepted Bill's offer, sold him the rolls of coins, took the money and promptly left the shop, never to be seen again. When things quieted down later that afternoon, Bill opened the rolls to sort the nickels. When he did, he discovered that there were only one or two Buffaloes stuck into the end of each roll, and the rest of the coins filling the middles of the rolls were nothing but common, circulated modern Jeffersons. He'd been scammed! That man had taken a big risk pulling such a scam, as Bill was the sort who would probably have put a .45-caliber hole in the guy for a stunt like that. How the scammer knew that Bill would not open and examine the rolls right away is anyone's guess. Now here's the funny part. Out of only six or eight Buffalo nickels Bill got out of the deal, one of them turned out to be a genuine 1937-D "Three-Legged" Buffalo, grading nearly Very Fine! Ha! We laughed about that one for the next few days! "Poetic justice" does occasionally happen. What comes around goes around. I only wish I was around to witness it more often. I watched it with my own two eyes, that time. |
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