And that's probably one of the easier phone calls! No arguments; no angry demands that you buy the coin for a million dollars; no awkwardly fabricated story about how the 2008 “silver dollar” was inherited in Grandpa's estate. . . .

We get doozies from time to time here at Whitman. The sad ones are the long, laboriously handwritten letters where you can tell the person really doesn't have all their faculties anymore, and they're probably in danger of being defrauded if they take their coins to a pawn shop or something.

But some are just flat-out crazy.

“What's wrong with R.S. Yeoman? He gives totally different prices in the Red Book and the Blue Book, from the same year! I dare Mr. Yeoman to write back and explain!”