Where is the most 'different / interesting' coin shop you've been to or heard of?

1630Boston

Where is the most 'different / interesting' coin shop?

I happened upon this one [on line] and think it would be a great shop to visit.
{Don't you agree @ricko }

James H Cohen & Sons Inc. [Antique Weapons And Coins]
437 Royal St (at St Louis St)
New Orleans, LA 70130

https://foursquare.com/v/james-h-cohen--sons-inc-antique-weapons-and-coins/4de1a74b1f6e3190ccfe53ce/photos

ricko

WOW!! Absolutely @1630Boston ....It has been quite a few years since I have been to New Orleans... I do not recall this being in the French Quarter....would surely have visited if it were there then. Cheers, RickO

cmerlo1

I'm at McBride's here in Austin pretty much every Saturday. It's a gun store with an attached coin shop.

Insider2

Joe Gallo when the shop was in Alexandria VA was the first that came to mind. Then I immediately remembered Cohen's shop. It was more cluttered decades ago which made it better than it looks now.

topstuf

Either Joe Escove's wholesale rathole in the SF Tenderloin where you'd find bags of Fiji pennies for the truckers who used to stuff pay phones with them before the phones had better security.
Or...
Joe Hall's place south of Market where you'd step over bums to get in the door. Various ne'er-do-wells stumbled around outside or took off their clothes to better enjoy their drunkenness.

HOWEVER..... did they ever have the coins! Whoo-WEEE!!!

SF oldtimers had lots and lots and lots of cool cool coins.

TommyType

Early in my "collecting career", I was in Washington DC for a business trip, and had a day to myself. Pulled out he yellow pages, (back when they were a thing), and found a coin shop listed near a Metro station, and off I went.

Turned out to be a slightly sketchy area of town, but I didn't know any better. The "Shop" was actually in the front room of an old dilapidated house in a residential area. It did have a sign saying "Rare Coins", though!

"Well, I'm here"....So I went in.

Nobody else in the store, and if you took out the 2 or 3 coin cabinets, and replaced them with easy chairs and a couch, it would have looked fine as a living room.

Mostly beat up pocket change. (Ok...Pocket change from the 1930's, anyway). But the owner/dealer was a friendly sort. I took it he may have had a long history of coin dealing, but was then just set up as a retirement hobby/time killer. Had a nice conversation.

I ended up buying a raw 1837 half dime....maybe Fine in grade. Fit my type collection at the time just perfectly. But I swear, it was probably the primo #1 coin in the shop! I think I made his day. Still have it....somewhere.

FredWeinberg

Joe Escove - wow - hadn't thought of him in many many years.

Used to do business with him in the mid-70's on, when I was at
Numismatics Ltd. here in L.A.

golden

I went to the James H. Cohen shop, in New Orleans, back in the early 1980's.

WCC

I'm not sure there is a single retail shop I'd consider that interesting today or since I resumed collecting in 1998. The most interesting one to me is the one that sells something I want to buy, which is almost none even online. All others overwhelmingly carry coins I can see at a major show or on the internet and nothing else.

ChrisH821

Wendy's Creative Collections and Coins in Peoria also sells chocolates. I'm slightly addicted to the turtles they sell.

Namvet69

I patronize Pete Doelgers Gallery of coins in Warren NJ. Great guy, excellent inventory, he has a Keurig on the counter and chairs to sit down while I preruse. Peace Roy