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GTOsterGTOster Posts: 861 ✭✭✭
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Going to the Shore for a few day's
Does anyone know if there are any coin shops down there
I do plan on hitting the Pawn Shops in Atlantic City
LMK
Thanks
Paul
My E-Bay Auctions
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Where ya goin'...Wildwood?
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's the PCGS Dealer list for NJ: LIST

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • GTOsterGTOster Posts: 861 ✭✭✭
    No Wildwood for me or as its know around here CHILDWOOD
    Now my 14 year old son will be there every night I am Sure
    Going to Sea Isle ,nice and quite and can fish less lhat 50 yards from the house
    More BEER for me
    Paul
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    "CHILWOOD" is precisely the reason I go. It allows me to reminicse. My uncle HAD a house in Sea isle City, and we used to fish right off the pier. Don't recall of any coin shops in the area.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • GTOsterGTOster Posts: 861 ✭✭✭
    MS 70
    Thanks I had checked out the list before but no Dealers @ the shore
    I was Hoping that someone that lived down around there had a line on a small shop
    you know out of the way type thing
    Paul
    My E-Bay Auctions
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  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    You guys are forgetting the most important numismatic aspect of the Jersey Shore.
    Here is a mathematical formula to live by when going to the Jersey Shore.

    ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS= BU ROLLS.image
  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS= BU ROLLS.

    Yeah---and GTOster's vacation will be CUT SHORT for lack of $$$$$.
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • GTOsterGTOster Posts: 861 ✭✭✭
    Razor
    I am too old to Reminicse LOL
    Do you remember the PENTLY BOX
    What a club that was Now I am really showing my Age
    Don't know how many times I watch a good fight there It was better than going to AC
    And there where always a few a night LOL
    Paul
    My E-Bay Auctions
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  • GTOsterGTOster Posts: 861 ✭✭✭
    You guys are forgetting the most important numismatic aspect of the Jersey Shore.
    Here is a mathematical formula to live by when going to the Jersey Shore.

    ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS= BU ROLLS.
    LOL
    Here is another

    AC with the wife and dinner with a show limited funds( by Her)= my happieness

    No I already told her I was hitting the Pawn shops so she I going too I will buy her some sparkly thing to hang
    from her neck or wrist and I will not even get a LOOK when I buy coins (YEA RIGHT LOL)
    Paul
    My E-Bay Auctions
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Don't know how many times I watch a good fight there It was better than going to AC


    image Yeah---In all likelihood, it was me you were wacthing fight.image

    Fortunately, I was a friend to the son of the commisioner of Wildwood police.image

    Oh yeah...You forgot the Bolero.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Don't know if he's still there ( it's been a loooong time) but if you're near forked river/lanoka harbor, try looking up ACC Coin Exchange, Carl Gazia. He's a walking encyclopedia and been in the business since ( I tink) 1958.

    Tell you a little story about Carl. I used to have a shop on Rte 88 at the Laurelton Circle in Bricktown. This was way back before electricity( image) was invented. One day a guy came in with a paper bag full of really neat European coins to which I knew zero about. So out came the Krause book and we sat there and poured over the coins and wrote them all down, while I examined them with my loupe. There was no way I was going to pay Krause as I had no idea if these things were real, and if they were real, or if anyone would even want to buy them for any kind of money. I had a buy-sell on foreign stuff sign on my shops window ( buy at 3.00 a pound and sell at 4.00 a pound, but this was for non precious metal foreign stuff). THESE were like museum coins!

    So I asked the guy, have you brought these to other shops and what did they offer you? He was good about it and told me that nobody took the time to look at them the way that I did, and that they all figured a price which correlated to 70% of spot silver! Hmmmm. I told him he should bring them to NYC and he said, I'm really tired of this and would you please offer me more than 70% of spot and I'll be on my way.

    I told him that in my opinion, they're worth quite a bit more than that but I don't know how much, nor do I know where to go ) other than NY) to sell them. Anyway, he said whatever and repeated his request for me to pay more than 70% of spot ( spot I think was about 20 bucks an ounce by the way). So I paid him spot, and he smiled and said thank you. I figured I couldn't lose but also didn't think I had much if any profit but the coins looked cool and so, I bought them.

    After a couple of hours of looking thru these things and biting my nails, I called Carl and asked him " Do you know anything about old Russian and German coins"? He replied, sure ( !) what do you want to know? I told him I bought a bag full of these things and paid spot silver which came to a couple thousand dollars for them. He said "bring them on down!". So I put the "Closed" sign up and drove down to Forked River and poured the bag out on Carls counter. He went thru them and offered me if I remember correctly almost 5 grand for these things and told me he would pay me more but that they were a pain to sell and he's figuring on having to bring them to a guy in Queens who buys this kind of stuff. So I sold them.

    I tried calling the guy who sold them to me to tell him to come on back, that I got more than I figured I could get and would share that with him but the number he gave me was a disconnected number and so that was that. Steak dinner that night!

    Good luck in South Jersey!

    Rgrds
    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And then Carl took the batch to NY for 20 grand, right image
    Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭


    << <i>And then Carl took the batch to NY for 20 grand, right image >>




    Actually he called me a couple months later and told me he finally sold those things for 8 grand.

    Tom

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • sTONERsTONER Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭
    theres,,SEAPORT COINS in TOMS RIVER,, C&N COINS in HOWELL,, WARETOWN COIN AND STAMP in WARETOWN,, i believe theres more ,but the mind is not functioning yet,,,STEVEimage
    toner loner
  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Aye...If yer headed my way, gimme a call, we'll go to Pittman Coins and Currency; forty miles north in the direction you're headed.image

    In fact, I'm considering heading down to Wildwood today for some Mack's pizza. Try it---it's second to none!image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Paul,
    I don't know which way you're coming from, or what you're looking for, but there's a dealer, Harry Garrison/Colonial Coins, in Hamilton (near Trenton) that has a lot of nice Bust and Seated stuff. I've never been to his shop, but have bought from him at local shows. Always very pleasant to deal with.
  • GTOsterGTOster Posts: 861 ✭✭✭
    Thanks to everyone I will post my finds when I get back!!!!!
    witha big pile of cash from AC
    Paul
    My E-Bay Auctions
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  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    Oh man am I getting sad and homesick. I miss the Shore. There's nothing like it here in California.

    I remember when I took my wife to Point Pleasant for the first time, she couldn't understand why people wanted to eat waffles with ice cream.

    AC, Wildwood, Belmar, Seaside -- I'm having flashbacks to my teenage years as I write this.

    I already told her that once we have kids, every summer I'm renting a place on the Shore for 2 weeks so my children can experience some of the same sights, smells, tastes and times I did growing up.

    Sorry to go OT, but I'm just envious.

    Michael
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Yup, an Italian sausage sandwich on the boardwalk at Seaside man. And how about the corn on the cob that the kernals are soooo soft.

    Is the Wild Mouse or the Zipper still up there? God I'd need a cardiologist if I tried that now.

    You mentioned Belmar. My second coin shop was on F street ( main street) in Belmar!

    Joisey!

    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭


    << <i>You mentioned Belmar. My second coin shop was on F street ( main street) in Belmar! >>



    My family owns a Autobody Shop in Avon (by the Sea) and I would spend every summer working down there. I loved Belmar. After work as a high school and college student I'd try to sneak into the clubs and bars. Some of my most cherished memories are of Belmar as a 19/20 year old.

    Every year the BENNYS would make their way down on Memorial Day and the population of that area would just double-triple.

    God how we hated and loved the BENNYs.

    Michael
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Got me on that one Michael. What are Bennies?

    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    Bennies?


    Those are summer people that flocked to the Shore, the term refers to where they were from

    B -- Brooklyn E -- Elizabeth N -- Newark NY -- New York (BENNY)

    image

    Michael
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Hmmmm, maybe I missed it because I came down from Union County?

    Till finally I kept going south to Florida!

    Rgrds
    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Is the Wild Mouse or the Zipper still up there


    They dismantled the "Wild Mouse" about 10 years ago, when a child was killed when a car derailed.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I miss the Shore. There's nothing like it here in California. >>

    Yeah, it's on the wrong side image



    << <i>Hmmmm, maybe I missed it because I came down from Union County? >>

    Union country rules! image
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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, North Jersians suck!image Gotta be a South Jersian to be considered a Jersian.image Those Northerners ain't nuttin' but New Yakers in sheeps clothing.image
    What is money, in reality, but dirty pieces of paper and metal upon which privilege is stamped?
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Is the Wild Mouse or the Zipper still up there


    They dismantled the "Wild Mouse" about 10 years ago, when a child was killed when a car derailed.image >>




    Wow, that was quite a ride, but so was the Zipper. I liked it so much I used it as my handle on the CB radio back when that was popular. ( I had a juiced up Tram D201image )

    The best part of NJ is "leaving" though hahaha.

    Florida rules!

    Rgrds
    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • Betta285Betta285 Posts: 733
    seaport coins in toms river...about a 5 minute drive from seaside.........incredible shop..excelent service and selection, the owner, Tom is very knowledgeable and helpful......a recomend a visit if you are in the area
  • Betta285Betta285 Posts: 733
    looks like sTONER already informed you

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