Trade Dollar on Storage Wars

kaz

OK, I admit it, I sometimes watch this stuff. Anyway, one of the newer players, Nabila, won a unit with a bag full of coins in it. After pulling out some boxes and slabs, she produced part of a plastic pocket page with some heavily patinated large coins.. the camera zooms in.. on a trade dollar.... I can see the date.... 1872... This is going to be educational.

So she takes the swag to a dealer.. and here I forget the name.. friendly fellow,no mustard stains, who quickly goes through the proof sets.. including a couple of flat packs, nice...and lastly the plastic page. He scrutinizes the trade dollar... again a close up of the date..... He says, (paraphrasing) Hmm... I don't know about these.. reaches back for a magnet and tests the coins in the page. They all stick.

Now, in my fantasy world, this could have been a great opportunity to promote the trade dollar series with a few seconds about the years they were struck for circulation, how interesting they are to collect.. oh well.

Dave H. didn't win a unit.

LeeBone

Nice.

I always love to see Barry win a unit, he cracks me up

nutmeg

The method I use to determine if what I'm watching is a rerun is looking at Barry's clothes.
If his clothes look familiar then I have seen the episode already.
I wonder if the percentage of times they find coins, paper money and gold jewelry is higher than in real life.
I also wonder who would just abandon these collectibles?

ricko

If you expected a numismatic discourse on that show, may I suggest you are watching the wrong program. Cheers, RickO

keyman64

The Mentalist last week had a Treasure/Coin Theme to it. They showed a Gold Eagle from 1860s or 1870s...it was about a shipwreck etc.

InternetJunky

I'll admit I enjoy that show too. But like ricko said don't expect an education, just a crap shoot value of any coins they bring in. After all that is what they're there for..as long as they profit more than they spend it doesn't matter what was in that unit.

Weather11am

<< <i>The Mentalist last week had a Treasure/Coin Theme to it. They showed a Gold Eagle from 1860s or 1870s...it was about a shipwreck etc. >>



I saw that too! The gold eagle they showed looked in pretty good shape.

MsMorrisine

I think that show is totally staged.

johnny9434

its fun in any case to watch

RevDrBlimber

Entertaining, but not for those that lost their storage units because they did not pay quickly enough or were out of the country and absent minded about timely duties...

onejinx

<< <i>Entertaining, but not for those that lost their storage units because they did not pay quickly enough or were out of the country and absent minded about timely duties... >>



Typically, you have to be 90 days behind. I don't feel sorry for people who don't pay their bills. It has nothing to do with not paying quickly enough or being absent-minded. They more then likely ignored their bills, so they deserve to lose their property

ricko

Although I know these shows enjoy a specific popularity, I cannot watch them, I know too much about how they are made. I know, movies are fiction, TV shows are fiction - however, they do not portend to be reality. Cannot abide abject, intentional, falsehoods. Cheers, RickO

RevDrBlimber

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<< <i>Entertaining, but not for those that lost their storage units because they did not pay quickly enough or were out of the country and absent minded about timely duties... >>



Typically, you have to be 90 days behind. I don't feel sorry for people who don't pay their bills. It has nothing to do with not paying quickly enough or being absent-minded. They more then likely ignored their bills, so they deserve to lose their property >>



"On Wednesday night, Anthony Haden-Guest — gadfly, socialite, New York man of letters — began a similar campaign against a rampant, if not equally pernicious, public problem: the depredations of the self-storage trade.

"Two years ago, while on a temporary sojourn in London, Mr. Haden-Guest, 75, became delinquent on his payments to a Queens self-storage company, where he had been housing what he said were nearly a half-million dollars’ worth of books, art, clothes and personal papers. The company proceeded — without notice, Mr. Haden-Guest claims — to auction his belongings to a bidder for $630. The purchaser is now aiming to sell Mr. Haden-Guest’s property on the secondary market — unless he comes up with a $350,000 bond to forestall the sale. " http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/nyregion/anthony-haden-guest-has-a-protest-party-for-a-storage-war.html

joeykoins

Who in there right mind, would leave their coin collection behind? They must of not been a true collector! Com'on some of these are hard to beleive sometimes, like one of you guy's posted.

coinnut

Love that show. Barry cracks me up. The way he rifles through the lockers throwing stuff around that he just bought.

JamesMurray

I think my favorite episode was when the guys uncovered what looked like equipment for illicit drug manufacture.They sussed it out during the take a quick look section and when it came time for bidding some dude who had not been seen before or since was determined to win it , if i remember right a couple of guys bid him up just to annoy him. It was very obvious the dude was the owner of the items in the unit.

joeykoins

<< <i>I think my favorite episode was when the guys uncovered what looked like equipment for illicit drug manufacture.They sussed it out during the take a quick look section and when it came time for bidding some dude who had not been seen before or since was determined to win it , if i remember right a couple of guys bid him up just to annoy him. It was very obvious the dude was the owner of the items in the unit. >>

Yes, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. If this show is true?

JamesMurray

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<< <i>I think my favorite episode was when the guys uncovered what looked like equipment for illicit drug manufacture.They sussed it out during the take a quick look section and when it came time for bidding some dude who had not been seen before or since was determined to win it , if i remember right a couple of guys bid him up just to annoy him. It was very obvious the dude was the owner of the items in the unit. >>

Yes, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. If this show is true? >>



I believe it's heavily edited is what it is , yes i do think it happens but the editing makes it look like every day is payday with a smattering of bummers thrown in to remind us.

illini420

I live in SoCal and I'm very tempted to rent a storage unit and fill it with empty boxes... of course i'd clearly label the empty boxes with "Dad's coin collection" and "Grandma's Jewelry" and "Misc. Antiques" and so on, hahaha. Of course I wouldn't pay my bill and then the unit would be auctioned... wonder how much these guys would pay for empty boxes??

joeykoins

<< <i>I live in SoCal and I'm very tempted to rent a storage unit and fill it with empty boxes... of course i'd clearly label the empty boxes with "Dad's coin collection" and "Grandma's Jewelry" and "Misc. Antiques" and so on, hahaha. Of course I wouldn't pay my bill and then the unit would be auctioned... wonder how much these guys would pay for empty boxes?? >>

Now that would be an interesting episode! Very clever and amusing!

OperationButter

<< <i>I live in SoCal and I'm very tempted to rent a storage unit and fill it with empty boxes... of course i'd clearly label the empty boxes with "Dad's coin collection" and "Grandma's Jewelry" and "Misc. Antiques" and so on, hahaha. Of course I wouldn't pay my bill and then the unit would be auctioned... wonder how much these guys would pay for empty boxes?? >>



I thought the same thing! I would hope Dave would win with a YUUUUUUP for 10k or higher. hah

RevDrBlimber

A member of the local coin club had a storage unit broken into (they later found out the thieves had rented a unit in the same facility), where he had two large boxes, one marked "valuable coins" and the other marked "junk". Which do you suppose had the valuables and which did the thieves take? You guessed right!

The segment I found interesting was when the young couple got the unit with all the safes and lock boxes. They acted like they had something extremely valuable, but it turned out to be low-end collectibles!

I would like to hear the other side of the story. Who would fail to pay a bill for a few hundred dollars when they have thousands in storage, except someone who had a stroke, an accident or other extreme situation?

Justacommeman

I meet Barry in Vegas. A real guys guy.

He might have mentioned that Dave Hester is a db in real life and that Brandi has GREAT.............eyes. MJ

kaz

db? I'm confused.

RevDrBlimber

Deadbeat? You wonder how those hustlers can maintain good cash flow with the high risk game they are playing.

Justacommeman

D_ _ C H _ B _ G

I would suggest buying vowels. MJ

pocketpiececommems

It's kinda like watching people buy scratch off tickets and watch them scratch to see if they are winners.