Any of you ever place a Coins Wanted ad in the paper?

SamThompson

Thinking about placing a wanted ad for collections. Just curious if any of you have had any luck with this, or if you think I would have any good scores? My metro area's population is about 1 million

mrearlygold

Many many years ago I placed one and got a call from a guy who claimed he was in Miami and had a "meeeleone dolers" and wanted me to bring cash.

2 weeks later I saw I was being followed around and about a week after that some friends of mine experienced the joys of a home invasion.

Never did it again in South Florida.

Tom

SamThompson

HAHA, i dont know why i find that funny as he!!
how did they know where you lived anyway?

Russ

I run them from time to time. Plenty of calls about "rare" silver pennies, Peace Dollar errors with a "V" instead of a "U" in trust, and I swear I had no idea how many plastic baggies of circulated Ikes there are in the world.

Russ, NCNE

SamThompson

So u guys never found 'the big score'?

mrearlygold

Caller ID showed area code 305 on them. My number was in the ad.

Yeh it's real funny. You're a class act.

Tom

Longacre

I've never done it, but I would suggest you use a PO box for responses.

Russ

<< <i>So u guys never found 'the big score'? >>



You're looking for a "big score"?

Russ, NCNE

mgoodm3

No, in my town I'm not sure advertising for 1800's slabbed high-grade proof coinage would work very well.

kranky

I seem to remember board member mrdq ran those ads in his local paper.

DrWho

When working with the Public, as many dealers would concur, you have to put up with a lot of krap, along with the 'thrill of the hunt'.

I advertised: buy your US coins, get

do you want some soviet era coinage (geez, they were worth nothing when made, now...)?
can you find me a roll of 1959 lincoln cents?

or no response at all. Ah, its all in the thrill, you might get lucky, but you'll have to earn it!

SamThompson

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<< <i>So u guys never found 'the big score'? >>



You're looking for a "big score"?

Russ, NCNE >>



yes in fact i am, i'm looking to buy that little old ladies' deceased husbands collection of 400 proof double eagles and 9,000 cc morgans in ms69
figuratively speaking of course

topstuf

Can be mighty dangerous.

When I had the shop, I ran a full page that drew for 7 years.

But classifieds? Only arrange to meet at bank. Never a house. Yours OR theirs.

It just ain't worth the risk.

That "big score" can be your neurosurgeon's.

kieferscoins

<< <i>HAHA, i dont know why i find that funny as he!! >>



You lost all the respect you had in my mind with that comment. Geez. Publish the ad with your home address and you can laugh when you are duct taped up and at gunpoint. Think about it. Its not funny at all.

Cameron Kiefer

CharlesDarwin

See...

when you live in small town america, there's really nothing to fear.

A buddy and I put an ad in our local paper a week ago, got about a dozen calls.

Picked up some awesome material!

We bought the following:

20th Cent. Type Set for $30
$200 worth of silver Dimes, Quarters, Halves, and Dollars
A Coin Clock with 2 pristine 1879 Morgans in them, one will grade MS64.

We'd go to their house, offer our price and score big.

I'm gonna do it again soon, seeing as it paid off so well.

We got lucky though, since there was a small time coin dealer at a jewelry store that only paid 3x face value for EVERYTHING.

So, people wanted to know if we were associated with him, and when we told them we weren't, they were happy to deal with us.

If you live in rural america, far away from pawn shops and local coin dealers, you'll find good stuff. Even at the banks.

Today, I went in to get some Halves, and the teller who already picked all the silver out (bummer), then told me she had a roll of silver dimes and she sold them to me a face value!

Russ

SamThompson = CharlesDarwin?

Russ, NCNE

CoinDogg

You can always refer back to your previous posts if you want more answers to your question, SamThompson:

Putting an ad in the paper by SamThompson #1

Putting an ad in the paper by SamThompson #2

Veep

My ad that has been running on the first page and the first section of the classifieds just ran out after four months. I got very few calls. Only one was interesting, a lady with five gold coins. Four were VF and the fifth an MS63/64 $10 Indian. I paid fair money and re-sold them. With that, I'm only a little in the hole. Had there been more interesting coins turning up, I might have continued it.

I agree with the security concerns. Were it not for a cell phone and a P.O. Box, I'd never have done it.

CharlesDarwin

Russ,

Are you alleging that SamThompson is a democrat?

I am NOT SamThompson.

Guess I don't know why anyone would think that.

coynclecter

I ran a ad for a couple weeks. Had mostly calls about my 1925 penny type stuff. I did score one good buy from a guy who pulled about 2000 pennies from circulation in 1950. Paid him 1.5 e and got lots of mintmarked teens even a couple rolls of indian cents, all well worn.
Never carry cash and never have them come to your house.

Also, have them set the price before you spend too much time, maybe on the phone. I got tired of making free appraisals for people who would not sell if I had offered twice the worth.