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My Coin Galleries purchase from 45 years ago arrived 45 years ago next week.....

tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

Who remembers these little boxes being delivered by the Post Office?

Probably contained several hundred dollars worth of coins, sent from NY Radio City Station to my front door in upstate NY in two days, $1.75 Registered Mail.

I sure miss Staying at the Salisbury and attending the Stack's auctions and checking out inventory at 123 West 57th Street. Those were the good old days.

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it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

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  • goldengolden Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The only time that I was at Stack's was in March of 1990. I flew to New York to bid on one National Bank Note. It had been buried in a collection for almost 45 years. I won it but it went for a little more than I was expecting. When I got back to the hotel I was very excited. All of a sudden I realized that I had forgot about the juice which was 10% at the time. I was going to have the note shipped to me because of the sales tax. I had to stall for two weeks until I got paid again. I still have the note.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    It's strange that the box has the word "COIN" on it. Sounds like poor security to me.

    I seem to recall that back in the 1960s an advertiser in the classified section of COIN WORLD used to use the name Stow Nut & Bolt Company to avoid any numismatic reference.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    It's strange that the box has the word "COIN" on it. Sounds like poor security to me.

    Now that you mention it that is a little weird, but.....

    That's when the only people interested in coins were nerds and postal employees who signed for registered packages were fired if there was any hanky panky. >:)

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    It's strange that the box has the word "COIN" on it. Sounds like poor security to me.

    A guy I know in Scotland sent coin packages out with "stamped metal disks" and a wee bottle of 18 year old Scotch as "Aqua Vitae"

    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now registered mail costs around 10 times as much if that package didn't have insurance. If it had insurance the multiplier comes into paly. :s

  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    It's strange that the box has the word "COIN" on it. Sounds like poor security to me.

    Maybe not. In those wild wild west days a lot of "iffy" coins got dumped into fixed price lists, Coin World ads, and mail bid sales. If they got "lost" on route, that might be a better overall outcome vs. getting a nasty gram from a disgruntled customer. Mailed out hundreds of REG packages over the years....never lost a single one.

    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Are those old pictures of the packaging? Or have you saved the box all these years?? Cheers, RickO

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko, took the pictures yesterday while rummaging through stuff in toms-world (the basement). I've been listing postcards, playing cards, milkcaps, POGs, toys, games, puzzles etc. on eBay since they have given me a few hundred listings with no listing fee. I'm surprised I only found one of those boxes, it probably had some small stuff stored in it until recently. I save most of my small boxes and reuse them when I sell something small on eBay. Don't tell my wife you saw the pictures, she thinks I'm listing all the "crap" I have in the basement when I'm sitting at my computer. :D

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 18, 2020 12:32PM

    Back then you could put COIN on the outside of the box and there was less of a chance someone at the USPS would steal it.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tommy44...Old playing cards? As in 150 years old? I do collect those old decks....Cheers, RickO

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @tommy44...Old playing cards? As in 150 years old? I do collect those old decks....Cheers, RickO

    I wish. Mostly Sports, Advertising and Tourism 20 to 70 years old. Very little of any real value unless two or more folks might be interested.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congratulations! I'm still waiting for the Americana Libertas that I ordered and paid for over a month ago from Modern Coin Mart. The excuses are endless. If it ever arrives I hope it's in a nice box like yours. Maybe in 45 years. You never know.........hope springs eternal..............

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