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I'll be in Ma./South Shore the next few weeks. Where should I look for coins?

thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

Other than in the ground......I'll be metal detecting for the first time...

Thank you

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good luck metal detecting, let us know what you find :smile:

    Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko

    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:
    Good luck metal detecting, let us know what you find :smile:

    Will do! Can't wait!

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 18, 2018 12:31PM

    Not sure how far south you'll be but if you are anywhere near the Cape Cod Canal, pop over to Falmouth Stamp & Coin.

    Not sure what is left, if anything, of the great old shops in Boston.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    Not sure how far south you'll be but if you are anywhere near the Cape Cod Canal, pop over to Falmouth Stamp & Coin.

    Not sure what is left, if anything, of the great old shops in Boston.

    I'll be about half way in between Boston and the Cape. Thanks!

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:

    I'll be about half way in between Boston and the Cape. Thanks!

    That's dangerously close to my old stomping grounds...

  • DaveWcoinsDaveWcoins Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭
    edited June 18, 2018 2:39PM

    Check out Pilgrim Rare Coin in Weymouth, MA. It is run by a great and honest guy named David (he is a PNG member).

    He took it over a year or two ago from his former boss, Mike DelGreco, who retired and was also one of the really good guys in this business.

    Here is their website:
    https://pilgrimcoin.com/

    Dave Wnuck. Redbook contributor; long time PNG Member; listed on the PCGS Board of Experts. PM me with your email address to receive my e-newsletter, and visit DaveWcoins.com Find me on eBay at davewcoins
  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for the recommendation @DaveWcoins

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DaveWcoins said:
    Check out Pilgrim Rare Coin in Weymouth, MA. It is run by a great and honest guy named David (he is a PNG member).

    He took it over a year or two ago from his former boss, Mike DelGreco, who retired and was also one of the really good guys in this business.

    Here is their website:
    https://pilgrimcoin.com/

    That is very useful information. I knew about Del Greco coin but had never been in there. Did not know they had closed.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I never heard of it either. A lot of coin shops on the south shore have closed in the past few years. Kappy's coins in norwood is still there. Plymouth coin is gone , one in rockland I used to stop by is gone. Hanover coin and jewelry is still there but the main coin guy is only there on wednesdays. I think the ones in the attleboro area are all gone.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 18, 2018 5:45PM

    @bronco2078

    Of course, Kappy's. Have done business with them in person and via ebay.

    Where was the coin store in Plymouth? I can't picture it.

    Rockland...how long ago are we talking? There was one in the 1970s run by an older lady where I started my collecting. She was great. Got my early dream coins there: a 1909S cent and a 1798 cent.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 18, 2018 6:09PM

    @JBK said:
    @bronco2078

    Of course, Kappy's. Have done business with them in person and via ebay.

    Where was the coin store in Plymouth? I can't picture it.

    Rockland...how long ago are we talking? There was one in the 1970s run by an older lady where I started my collecting. She was great. Got my early dream coins there: a 1909S cent and a 1798 cent.

    Yellow building on ,Court st . Stan owned it,and he retired 2 years ago , that was my bullion go to, I get bullion at hanover coin and jewelry now sometimes.

    I know the one you mean in Rockland , but I'm thinking of a different one a guy and his son ran it. I think they moved up to weymouth on 3a near the ferry terminal and branched out to sports cards and autographs but I don't know how that worked out.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow... Best of luck MD'ing in Massachusetts... You could get lucky if you can find some old fields/woods... you never know what may have been there 150-200 years ago....Very historical area... Let us know what you find... Cheers, RickO

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow
    I may have mis-read your post. Are you asking about coin shops or where to detect metal ? :smile:

    Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko

    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

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  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:
    @thisistheshow
    I may have mis-read your post. Are you asking about coin shops or where to detect metal ? :smile:

    Coin shops

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @thisistheshow... Best of luck MD'ing in Massachusetts... You could get lucky if you can find some old fields/woods... you never know what may have been there 150-200 years ago....Very historical area... Let us know what you find... Cheers, RickO

    I hope to have a lot of luck! And I will share plenty of pictures about my findings!

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I hope you find something good MD - be sure to post pics. You have 400 years of history at your feet. (Plus 1000s of years prior to that but I am not sure if the Native Americans left much in the way of metal behind).

    When I was young I used a MD at the base of a WWII observation tower in the same general vicinity, and I found a brass lighthouse keeper's button (there was also a lighthouse there), a spent .45 pistol shell, and a spent 30-06 shell (either a Springfield bolt action or an M1 Garand).

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