Another Dunkin Donuts adventure!
gecko109
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Met a dealer friend of mine at Dunkin about an hour ago, and had another "butt in" from a coffee customer. For those who didnt get a chance to read my last account of my meeting a DD, we had been interupted by a gangbanger look-a-like type of guy who noticed we were discussing coins. Anyway, a similar thing happened today. While my buddy and I were heavily engaged in "panda talk", an elderly Mexican gentleman abruptly motioned to me with outstretched hand and said "let me see your coin". I felt like giving him the standard 5th grader response of "see with your eyes, not with your hands". However, since the coin in question was double sealed in mint packaging, and only worth about $1,000, I figured why not. He admired the gleam of gold and the frosty devices set atop deep mirrored fields and complimented me on the beauty of the piece. Then came the most asked question of all time from non-collectors...."how much is this worth?". I replied it was worth about $800, and not sure why I said that....maybe $800 wouldnt be worth the trouble of jumping up and doing a Jesse Owens impersonation, but somehow $1,000 would? But I digress. You know how I felt after the gentleman handed the coin back to me? I felt proud of something I owned, I felt good that this stranger and I had somehow connected on an unspoken level of mutual trust. He trusted me to let him see it without being rejected, and I trusted him not to run away with it!
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Millertime
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cool story though.
Millertime
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trusting Forum Members.
Camelot
<< <i>Donuts are the next worst thing to cigarettes.
Thats why I leave donuts alone.
And I plan on quitting the other half of that equation soon.
<< <i>Donuts are the next worst thing to cigarettes.
But at least they smell good, and not putrid like cigarettes.
<< <i>Did I mention that I'm anti-social (at least that's what my friends tell me
Millertime >>
I am shocked that a coin collector would be anti-social.
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<< <i>Donuts are the next worst thing to cigarettes.
But at least they smell good, and not putrid like cigarettes. >>
At least they smell good on the way IN!
to cause lung cancer. Diabetes, overweight,
episodic euphoria, shouts of delight.............
but not lung cancer.
Camelot
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<< <i>Donuts are the next worst thing to cigarettes.
Thats why I leave donuts alone.
And I plan on quitting the other half of that equation soon. >>
Actually, donuts are only bad if you eat 20 to 40 a day right after meals but an occasional donut is good for the soul! Especially the jelly one! (Yum!)
As for quitting the other half Mr. Gecko, I'm shocked! I would expect that what you get on the job would be quite enough but fully understand.
For me, the "soon" never came until I changed "soon" to "now". Good Luck though!
The name is LEE!
<< <i>Jelly donutes have not been proven
to cause lung cancer. Diabetes, overweight,
episodic euphoria, shouts of delight.............
but not lung cancer. >>
Donuts have no nutritional value whatsoever. Fat and sugar--that's it. Maybe a few nanograms of fiber in a jelly donut. My kids are forbidden to eat them, and I have not eaten one in about 20 years. When I was a med student, they were ubiquitous on campus. You could not swing a dead cat without hitting six pharm reps delivering them to some morning or afternoon conference. By the time I was a third year medical student, my weight peaked. I went cold turkey on donuts at that time and have not had one since. (Maybe that's why I am so cranky
You evaluated whether or not you could outrun this elderly mexican gentleman if he fled with the goods and decided that you could.
Funny the 20% reduction in purchase price used as a 'safety measure'. Does this mean you subconsciously feel you overpaid?
I look forward to pictures of grids of silver pandas tonight and I hope to help!
You are going to get 'known' at this place.
<< <i>Does not impress me, this story of trust. Why?
You evaluated whether or not you could outrun this elderly mexican gentleman if he fled with the goods and decided that you could.
Funny the 20% reduction in purchase price used as a 'safety measure'. Does this mean you subconsciously feel you overpaid?
I look forward to pictures of grids of silver pandas tonight and I hope to help!
You are going to get 'known' at this place. >>
"You evaluated whether or not you could outrun this elderly mexican gentleman if he fled with the goods and decided that you could.
I'd be a stone cold liar if I didnt admit that this DID enter my "trust" equation!
<< <i>Never discuss or show coins in public places. >>
But thats different from driving a $100,000 Mercedes in what way?
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<< <i>Never discuss or show coins in public places. >>
But thats different from driving a $100,000 Mercedes in what way? >>
Gold Coins in the Dunkin Donuts is the same as 100k Mercedes in Compton (no offense to Dunkin Donuts)
Gold Coins in Shows, the same as 100K Mercedes in Beverly Hills.
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Have you no shame, no decency.Have you
never held a warm jelly donut close to your heart
on a cold and windy day. Ahhh, a warm donut in one hand
and a nice hot cup of coffee in the other hand. Any
cardio vascular problems these two may cause, are
probably months or even years away.
Camelot
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<< <i>You should be more careful with talking--let alone handling--such things in public, IMO. >>
<< <i>Donuts have no nutritional value whatsoever. Fat and sugar--that's it. Maybe a few nanograms of fiber in a jelly donut. My kids are forbidden to eat them, and I have not eaten one in about 20 years. When I was a med student, they were ubiquitous on campus. You could not swing a dead cat without hitting six pharm reps delivering them to some morning or afternoon conference. By the time I was a third year medical student, my weight peaked. I went cold turkey on donuts at that time and have not had one since. (Maybe that's why I am so cranky
Come back to Pennsy and a funnel cake!
When I visited his hometown (my old hometown), I was staying in a KOA campground and if we wanted to show each other coins, the only well-lit place was the nearby Waffle House down the road. We didn't have anybody wanting to actually hold our coins, though. (With my ancients and love tokens and his counterstamped stuff, it was probably too esoteric for most people, haha).
I'm not sure I would have done that with gold or anything. In fact, I try not to do that very often, but I have occasionally met some of my customers at the Waffle House, too, down here. It's a Southern thing. We don't have Dunkin Donuts in this neck o' the woods.
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<< <i>I'll do just about anything for a big, dense, masterfully crafted apple fritter
Once upon a time our crapeteria had awesome apple fritters. If you went early, you could score a really big one. Now they suck. Good apple fritters and Boston creme donuts are favorites, and there's a bakery I can often smell while biking to work that I know has excellent donuts that I must not make a habit of patronizing. If someone brings some in from Dunkin' Donuts, even those will do.
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I used to be much more casual about talking and showing coins. However, I've heard too many stories. Should I wait until someone steals my collection until I become more careful? Sounds stupid to me. Again, the main question to avoid is the value question. A real collector probably doesn't need to ask. For others, if someone thinks the coin is worth a couple of dollars they aren't going to pay much attention or take much note, or tell their gangbanger friends or druggie relatives about some guy with a house full of $8000 coins. Word gets out to the wrong people.
There are plenty of neighborhoods where parking an expensive car, means risking leaving without that car or having serious damage done to the car. I don't know if said donut shop is in that bad a neighborhood, but if it is, I certainly would find a nicer place or nicer neighborhood to have these coin meetings. From the two stories told, it sounds borderline, but perhaps the author is embellishing to tell his story.
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<< <i>This thread has raised an issue about public display, or even talk about coins. I have been quite fortunate in my 33 years to have never been robbed, mugged, or burglurized (with an exception of a car radio or 2). I simply do not have the "fear" that some of you are talking about. Do I want to lose my entire collection? Of course not! If someone WERE to run off with one of my $1,000 coins, would it be a big bummer? Sure would, but it wouldnt be a life changing event in the least. I suppose I could be like some of you and live in fear and secrecy about my collection/life, but thats not my personality at all. What fun is collecting something if you cant talk about it, or show certain items except in bank vaults or private meetings? I suspect that i'd rather be robbed than to live in this type of "confinement". I thoroughly enjoy meeting my dealer/friend in public to discuss coins and look at eachother's newps, even if they are "higher dollar value" items. But then again, I also thoroughly enjoy crawling into a smokey, hot attic at 2am as well.
Gecko,
listen up homey, we all would like and hope to be dead in 100 years, but you could be real dead in 100 seconds, that is all it takes for some young hoodie to pop you and take whatever HE thinks is worth soemthing to support his habit or make a name for himself as a gang initiation rite. I think you are a valuable member and to see you waste your own life due to some stupid beliefs that having a little fear is foolish is dumb. I don't want you to love in fear but use your intelligence and understand it is ok to be fearful at times and play it smart. Enough said
Thanks for the compliments Realone. However, if I had YOUR coins, i'd throw mine in the garbage! I bet you have individual coins worth as much as my ENTIRE collection. I understand your point about being killed for something perceived to be valuable, but that would mean that nobody in their right mind would drive around in expensive cars for fear of being carjacked. And nobody would be caught shopping in Tiffany's jewelry store for fear of being followed home. I respect your advice about being cautious, and im NOT looking for trouble in public. Its not as if im randomly driving to bus stops and showing strangers my coin collection!!! These incidents have occured as I was minding my own business in a public place. Gold coin in hand or not, if I cannot feel safe in public, then life as I know it would be very sad indeed.
In my restaurant meets, usually the coins are of low value and not big flashy US silver dollars or anything gold, that the average person would assume to be very valuable.
If anybody wanted to snatch the coins off the table and run for the door, they'd have to mentally gauge their own risk versus the potential payoff. The meetings I've had in restaurants, when they weren't in broad daylight with dozens of people around, were at least during times when enough regular citizens were present and nobody you'd automatically assume was part of the criminal subculture.
I think it is a slightly different environment in my small-town Southern Waffle House than it would be in bigger-city areas with more crime and gangs and stuff like that. Obviously, no place is completely crime free, but some places are more prone to brazen, violent crime than others.
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