Tales from the Bourse book

Longacre

Has anyone read this book? I just got it, and I finished it already (it's only 50 pages). I think the stories were great, however, I wish that the book had a lot more of them and went into a bit more detail. The concept was a great one, but I was a little disappointed with the amount of content. Are there any other similar books out there from other dealers? I would love to read one about Q. David Bowers.

coinandcurrency242

Have you ever heard of Binion? He had a huge silver hoard. He ended up getting killed by the persone building his vault and his gf. I am sure there are books about that out.

kranky

We have enough long-time collectors and dealers here... why don't we add some "tales from the bourse" right in this thread?

An NGC grader once told me that he bought a $1 gold in a very old ANACS 65 holder at a FUN show. It looked so undergraded he took it over and had PCGS grade it on a walkthrough. The next morning he went back to the PCGS booth to pick it up, and screamed so loud the entire bourse floor turned around to look. MS69! He and his partner split about $20,000 profit.

A regular customer came up to a dealer at a show and said he had some junk silver to sell. But the customer was elderly and couldn't carry it from the parking lot to the dealer's table. The dealer lent his large dolly to the customer, who used it to bring the boxes of junk silver in. Unfortunately, on the way back in the customer had to pass by the table of the show organizer, who apparently wasn't pleased to see a big potential score sail right on by without stopping. The next morning at the show there were signs posted that no four-wheel dollies were allowed on the bourse floor during show hours!

keets

hey Jim

that 4-wheeled cart story cracks me up everytime you tell it!!

i helped the local dealer at a two-day Pittsburgh area show last winter and Saturday was really good for most evry dealer. the public started to clear out around 1:30 and with the sparse crowd and good mood all the guys started to hit the sauce. when th floor closed for the day several were looped we made plans to go to a local restaraunt to eat. i hopped in the truck with another guy from Cleveland and all the guys from Pennsylvania left us in the dust. not a problem, we went to the restaraunt and waited but they were nowhere in sight, so we had to track them down---thank God for cell phones!!! we drove to where they were at and they already had the waitresses nervous and the patrons giving them wide berth!!! the night ended in the courtesy room at the hotel playing poker.

needless to say, there were some butts dragging on Sunday and the floor was much quieter.

al h.