Best Of

I'm late to the party here but I would have graded 66+-67.
Nice clean coin. Obviously luster and frosty devices.
This one's a keeper.

@privatecoin said:

@Smudge said:
You will have to get used to prominently carrying a gun.

Rico approved.

It's Ricko and he was an NRA trained firearms instructor. Florida is a 2A friendly state but carrying a loaded gun is a serious responsibility and proper training is necessary. Florida is one of the 27 constitutional carry states which means that you don't need a license to legally carry a concealed handgun provided that you can legally own it. Most coin dealers that I know conceal carry for their own protection. Don't forget that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. If you currently have a good paying job that you like, you may want to start off dealing in coins on a part time basis---small shows on the weekend and mail order sales in the evenings. Let us know what you decide and good luck with your endeavor.

@mikee999 said:
I wonder why all these years carrying $1,000s worth of coins in my Levis jeans while riding the metro to the Feb LB coin show no one gave me a 2nd look.

Mind you the metro goes thru sketchy neighborhoods (think (Watts Riot).

Perhaps being a skinny Asian wearing wrinkle t-shirt with eyeglasses etc helped.??

Could it be because in the car/commute culture that is the greater LA area, most people would assume (rightly or wrongly) that anyone choosing to ride the Metro is completely destitute and an unworthy robbery target?

@CaptHenway said:
As to people not knowing how to sell gold, I remember one time when a 30ish young lady walked into Harlan Berk's and asked how she could hire an armored car. I asked her what she needed it for, and she said that she had just inherited 333 one ounce gold Maple Leafs (her 1/3 share of 1,000 pieces; her brother sold the odd one and split it three ways) that she wanted to sell, and she needed an armored car to transport them to our store. I asked her where they were, and she named a bank only three blocks away. I told her she did not need an armored car, grabbed my trusty coin dealer Samsonite briefcase and walked over there with her and brought them back from the safety deposit box. (I was insured en route back.) I gave her a price payable in three days (I think we paid 98.5%), did the paperwork, gave her a receipt and we shipped them off to New York. She came back three days later and I wrote her a check for roughly $1.25 million. Let's see Costco do that.

Did Harlan Berk's fire you when they found out that you paid $3,754 for each gold maple leaf?

@Martin said:
@Zoins
I knew that. But didn’t know he was the owner of TT. Never the less Teletrade was sold to stacks and they shuttled
It. Correct?

Thanks
Martin

Per his bio, he wasn't the owner of TT. He was the President while it was owned by Spectrum.

@Smudge said:
You will have to get used to prominently carrying a gun.

Rico approved.

Thanks for the answer, i have wondered that myself, never had it happened to me thru GC, but based on ian's explanation, i can see why.

JIm

Ebay is a whole another ballgame, I dont get that many returns, but a few times I had a buyer wait till 29 days , then return, cause he couldnt resell it. What a sham