I brought back some coins from Indonesia which looked like Spanish Dollars and I got a guy to value them
and he valued them at $50 each - this was back in 1980. So I paid him ten per cent of the valuation.
But when I went to sell them to another dealer I was told they were forgeries! Worth nothing. And I was almost
going to go back to Indonesia and buy a heap more. I was very annoyed with the first dealer, went back and
he offered a feeble defense - but he knew sweet nothing about his trade - might as well have been a vacuum
cleaner salesman.
