Hey everyone. I have had a weird situation happen and I am curious on everyone's opinion if this could have been a scam or if I was just too paranoid. It's a slightly long story but it involves a set of Monero coin I was selling which is valued at 110k USD at the moment.

I posted here on the forums for sale of my 2016 Lealana Monero coin set and was DM'd by a newer account that they were interested and wanted to get on a phone call. After taking to them for a while they seemed very cool and normal and decided to try and meet up to do the deal. My friend who originally sold me the set lives in Miami and it turns out this person lived in Miami as well. My friend has several sets and offered to sell one of his to this guy next day so I didn't have to rush to ship the coins out. Everything was arranged in a 3 way telegram chat and the next day they met. This is when things started to get WEIRD!

While they were meeting this guy texts me saying this - "He will not let me physically touch or look at them only see form picture I took. Before I send any money I need to physically see them touch them make sure everything is good"

Now this seems perfectly normal to me and I asked my friend why he wasn't letting the guy touch the coins. My friend told me he was literally giving him the coins to hold. I even got on FaceTime with them and was talking to both. I heard this guy inspecting the coins asking if the stickers looked even to them and my friend was saying without a doubt he had all the coins in his hand. At the same time they were discussing he texts me this.

"Brother, there’s no certificates. It’s very simple. I need to see them side-by-side so I can inspect them to make sure everything’s fine so I feel comfortable sending you all this money if he doesn’t pull them out right now and hand them over to me so I can look at them right in front of him side-by-side the deals off."

This was REALLY WEIRD. I know without a DOUBT he was holding the coins. eventually my friend was weirded out and they both left.

I started to doubt this guy was legit even though when we spoke on the phone after it seemed like it was maybe a misunderstanding. He says he is down to fly down to my city and do the deal with me in person and is even willing to meet me at my bank for the deal to go through. I just can't figure out what a scam could be or if anything could go wrong.

Eventually I asked to use escrow and his response was "No chance I’m using a random escrow agent on the forum lol. If you have an escrow  here in Miami I’ll go ahead and meet the escrow up. Just not sending money to someone and then they ship it to me"

so am I being too paranoid or is there some scam in there that I am missing. He seemed really cool on the phone, but my friend said he was all over the place talking fast and acting weird.