Parents are always right.
This happened back when I were nobbut a lad. When my grandad passed away we were clearing out his flat and we found this small tobacco tin, and inside were around 40 coins, all from different countries and years. There was an English coin from 1742, an Egyptian coin that was apparently 200 years old, and loads of others.

Thinking this lot could be worth a king's ransom, with my parents permission I naff off down the library to look up each of these coins and get it's value. After 4 solid days in the library I worked out that the sum total of all these coins was around £2,500. I legged it home to break the good news to the rentals, but being cynical types, they basically just made horsey lips at me and carried on what they were doing. Undeterred, I decided to find a coin dealer and see how much I "should insure them for" (Antiques Roadshow has taught me wisely).

So I arrange an appointment with the bloke at this coin place - he looked like the grandad from the Worther's Original advert if it's relevant. So I empty my tin of coins out on the table in front of him. After looking at each one in turn and not saying a word, he looked up at me with a serious face.

"Where did you get these?"

"They belonged to my grandad"

"Well son, your grandad was very wise to keep these coins. They're worth about £12 thousand pounds!"

My jaw hit the floor. As I'm walking in a circle trying to take this in, I turn round to see this old man standing there with his trousers round his ankles and a pale, flaccid penis in his hand. "I'll give you the cash for it here right now, if you do me one small favour" he said, walking towards me...

Ok, I made the last bit up. He looked at them for 12 seconds and said "worth about 20 quid, that lot."

Cuntsnot.
(GONEism, Sat 8 Nov 2008, 21:50, 2 replies)

:)
Nice one. Always good to see when people have a disappointing outcome and they project their fantasies into reality.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 1:27, closed)

Ah, the classic
"Take advantage of the naive kid" gambit.

I hope you didn't sell them to him.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 15:25, closed)