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ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Inquired about a coin on the online inventory...

"uhhh I cant find it but Ill keep looking"

I know this outfit has been around since the dinosaurs prowled the earth...but are they still "OK"?

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  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    I bought one coin online from them maybe 5 years ago...had no problems. Then again, that was awhile ago...

    Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.
  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    I have dealt with RARCOA. They are local to me. Its an established coin dealer. They used to have a shop in downtown chicago where Harlan Berk is now..

  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,099 ✭✭✭
    Good people to deal with.

    -Paul
    Many Quality coins for sale at http://www.CommonCentsRareCoins.com
  • GreeniejrGreeniejr Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭
    They are great people to deal with and their old location on Clark street is fantastic image
    As with all big companies with huge inventories, coins slip through the cracks and it is very possible that it either sold or fell behind a safe or something. It happens, so I really don't think it was anything malicious, they legitimately could not find it.
    David
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds good from one and all. My only concern its listed at about half what it should be selling for an NGC MS62
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,650 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They are great people to deal with and their old location on Clark street is fantastic image
    >>



    That has always confused me. When did RARCOA vacate that space, and did Berk take it over immediately? Did any employees remain in the location when RARCOA moved out?
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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Good people to deal with.

    -Paul >>

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  • NH484000NH484000 Posts: 591 ✭
    Great folks, IMO --
    Looking to buy Morgans in ACG, INS, IGA, Old PCI photo, and Hannes Tulving holders.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...then I hope he finds the coin! image
  • 500Bay500Bay Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭
    Bought one coin from them on e-bay a few years back. Good experience.
    Finem Respice
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,623 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>They are great people to deal with and their old location on Clark street is fantastic image
    >>



    That has always confused me. When did RARCOA vacate that space, and did Berk take it over immediately? Did any employees remain in the location when RARCOA moved out? >>



    Harlan was at a show and got to talking with Ed Milas. Ed said that he was tired of commuting downtown, and eventually they agreed that Harlan would buy the store and they sealed it with a handshake. Harlan took over a few months later and kept the employees that wanted to stay. This was in late 1988.
    The next Spring one of them dropped dead of a heart attack on an El train on his way to work, and I was hired to replace him.

    They are fine people, and we still do a lot of business with them.
    TD
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bought a super nice Buffalo nickel from this outfit about two years ago and I love the coin, it was as discribed and beautiful. I still have them down as a favorite seller....This is the coin 1914-S NGC ms-64, not the best image but you get the idea...

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  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    They're fine to deal with.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If there is a coin that you are interested in, they will give you an honest description over the phone and, if you wish, they will e-mail you good pics.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They have a lot of gold in their inventory, and it is often quite nice for the grade.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Marauderrt10Marauderrt10 Posts: 1,097 ✭
    Stay away from their gold. 99% of it is dipped and unoriginal.

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