Did you/do you have a "trading buddy"?

comma · October 24, 2011 11:22AM

Growing up (about 8-14) me and my best friend were obsessed with coins. We would go to the coin shop every week and hit every coin show that came into town. We would literally spend an entire Saturday setting up a huge trade...getting into fights over who was trying to rip who off

I was subscribed to some coin magazine (cant remember which one) and bought a random "uncirculated" morgan for $20 one day. I got it, (1879-s I think) and looked amazing. Had the dealer slab it, and it turned out to be like MS-67 or something (a big coin for us) so for a couple years that was "the" coin to trade...he ultimately ended up with it

haha

But anyway, I miss that and I can remember how much fun it was. Just curious who has had or has relationships like that...and if you have a "the coin" that always traded back and forth.

STONE · October 24, 2011 11:24AM

I used to do that with Baseball cards between many friends...then we all lost interest/grew-up (so to speak) and that's when the Baseball card market tanked (not like we were market makers, but out "collections" lost 90% of their value overnight!)

Wish people would do the same with coins...although LordMarcovan and I just finished a trade - coins for fossils!

AUandAG · October 24, 2011 11:29AM

For about a year or two I had two buddies in Grade School that were into coins like I was. We
would all go to the bank on Saturday and sit for hours looking through penny rolls and cherry
picking for our blue Whitmans. Take $2 and get 4 rolls, search and turn in. Of course took some
replacement pennies just for the trading. Could do that for hours. The bankers thought we
were "cute". We set up in a corner not to disturb the patrons and did it right on the floor.

Had a lot of great Saturdays. I still have my blue Whitman with all those picks.

Get it out every now and again.

bob

spendabuckeye · October 24, 2011 12:04PM

growing up my best friend and i loved to collect coins. memories include sitting at banks buying rolls to look for wheaties and trying to find the 1974-s cent (dont know why but that was big with us). i got back into in adulthood and keep him informed about what i pick up. also competed at an auction against each other for the same p/l morgan.

have another trading buddy here in town, but the first one and i have been buds for 44 out of our 49 years on this planet.

TexasNationals · October 24, 2011 12:30PM

I have a dealer I do a lot of trading with at my house (not the shop) and his personal stuff not inventory. He drive 6 hours every 2 months or so and spends the weekend and brings his wife to keep my wife off my back for a few days. Our trading got me into my first national bank note 10 years ago and had I known what I would and still do spend on Texas nationals I would have never traded!! Know he is focused on buffalo's and myself classic head gold and C, D, and O early gold.

determined · October 24, 2011 3:13PM

<< <i>For about a year or two I had two buddies in Grade School that were into coins like I was. We
would all go to the bank on Saturday and sit for hours looking through penny rolls and cherry
picking for our blue Whitmans. Take $2 and get 4 rolls, search and turn in. Of course took some
replacement pennies just for the trading. Could do that for hours. The bankers thought we
were "cute". We set up in a corner not to disturb the patrons and did it right on the floor.

Had a lot of great Saturdays. I still have my blue Whitman with all those picks.

bob

>>

That is a cool story!

And sadly would never happen today.

Justacommeman · October 24, 2011 3:23PM

I have two. My eight and seven year old nephews. I bring over my buckets of change and they look through it for the state quarters they need. They "trade" me there doubles for the ones they need. I recently bought them loupes. My sister told me sometimes when they are working on their state quarter albums/playing together they fight over who'd going to be Uncle Mark. I love it............MJ