He's the Crazy Russian Hacker, give him a break!! American history isn't his expertise, but he knows a decent amount about stacking/collecting. Gotta love Taras!
And they scratch them so they lose value pawn shops are scamers I seen them buy numasmatic bullion and scratch test it so it only has metal value and still try to get the numasmatical value when it lost it's value when it was scratched.