How many coins shops in your town?

MGLICKER

Stamps and other stuff are ok as long as they have a legitimate numismatic inventory.


Been to 7 in Tucson and their are about 4 more that come to mind.

baddogss

Nada a one ... have to travel about 70 miles.

MGLICKER

<< <i>Nada a one ... have to travel about 70 miles. >>



How many shops in that town?

3stars

One. Next nearest one is 360 miles...

TwoSides2aCoin

We have more coin shops than we have collectors. That's why I like EBAY

Oh, but don't click on my links without first being aware that it's spam in the first degree

lordmarcovan

One less than the number of pet-friendly kosher Mongolian macrobiotic vegan discount butcher shops, I'm afraid.

(And there's only one of those, 'cause I just came up with the idea and we won't open 'til next week when our order of teakwood skewers comes in.)

MGLICKER

<< <i>One less than the number of pet-friendly kosher Mongolian macrobiotic vegan discount butcher shops, I'm afraid.

(And there's only one of those, 'cause I just came up with the idea and we won't open 'til next week when our order of teakwood skewers comes in.) >>



Put me down for an order of the emperors seitan chicken with habanero sauce!!!

lordmarcovan

Sorry, no chicken. We cater to vegans, remember? How 'bout some nice Savory Sawdust Hardtack Biscuits?

Actually, we did have some chicken last week. Got a shipment of it by accident. Was supposed to be a box of Dandelion Deelites.

But we're also pet-friendly, you see, so somebody's dog ate all the chicken.

Maybe we should have opened a coin shop instead.

mariner67

If God did not want us to eat animals he would not have made them out of meat!

MrHalfDime

None, I'm afraid, in my town. There was one here for quite a number of years, but the dealer retired after 53 years in the coin business, and is now deceased. There are two in nearby Portland (Maine), but one is not worth visiting, and the other, while reputable and fair, caters mostly to jewelry. There is one excellent coin shop in Bangor, a two hour drive. And that is pretty much it for the entire state. A sign of the times.

MrHalfDime

"If God did not want us to eat animals he would not have made them out of meat!"

One of the best lines from the Seinfeld show, attributed to Elaine (Julia Louise-Dreyfus).

lkeigwin

Just one, and I'm surprised at that. It's a sleepy, little town.

The place has been around for decades. I never see any customers. Maybe it's a front.
Lance.

johnny9434

none in this area for about 50 miles or so. theres one close by but no self respecting collector goes there.

baddogss

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How many shops in that town? >>



Two that I'm aware of.
Thanks to LordM we're finally getting a pet-friendly kosher Mongolian macrobiotic vegan discount butcher shop though.

guitarwes

The only one in my area closed it's doors in August due to the owner wanting to change professions. His business was about 90% ebay anyway, so it was pretty much senseless to keep a B&M open with all the added expenses and headaches.

CoinZip

Zero in the town I live in which has a population of about 200.........

I have to travel about 20 miles down the road where there is 1 B&M that deals in just about everything and 1 Rare Coin Dealer.

SanctionII

None currently in the specific city I live in (though their has been in the past).

However in my county, in the 9 County SF Bay Area, in No. Cal. and in all of California there are B&M Shops all over the place. Many I have been to and some I have not yet made it to. From up close to the Oregon border, from close to the Nevada and Arizona borders, from close to the border with Mexico to and from close to the shoreline where the Golden State meets the Pacific.

In all of these places (Urban, Suburban, Rural and out in the middle of nowhere) you can find B&M shops. Quiet the broad spectrum of shop owners and employees that you find in these shops also.

MGLICKER

<< <i>Sorry, no chicken. We cater to vegans, remember? >>



Ahhh the carefully crafted trap was successful!!!!

Seitan is a Vegan product which is used by some as an alternative to meat. The Mongolian Vegan master should have certainly known that!!!!

Swampboy

I live in a metropolitan area with approximately ten shops.

BTW the origin of the word Vegan has been traced back to a proto-indo-eurasian language where it's thought to have meant 'lousy hunter'

LochNESS

Do pawn shops count? Because it seems these days, they all carry a couple Morgan and Peace dollars ... and the shops are dime a dozen here in Atlanta ...

Actual coin shops are not as many as you might think for such a big city. Used to have more. Many closed and went online-only. There's at least a half dozen on eBay now, that won't even meet for in-person transactions, even though we live 15-20 minutes apart.

And no it's not because they don't like me it seems like a common policy for online-only sellers. Probably got robbed in a past life and are now overly cautious.

topstuf

Probably a dozen or so.
Each trying to eat the other.

ms70

One and of course it's the worst I've ever seen. It's been there for years and I've never seen it open regardless of the hours on the window. I looked inside and it's practically
empty with just some supplies here & there and filty. No coins visible, just some souvenir looking medals of some sort. I called the phone number on the window and the owner
told me the 2 hours he'd be there during the week and MAYBE sometime in the afternoon on a saturday. I never bothered to go.

But, on the other hand I live close to the well known Parsippany, NJ show which is the first Sunday of each month. It's very good but I haven't been able to get a free Sunday with
free money at the same time since I started collecting again.

Roscoe

Two, One I bought my first coin from in 1978 is still in business but now supplements it with gun consignments and another about 25 miles away that's more of a younger fellow that still understands pre-modern collectors. I'm discounting the two bullion only places and the other one that says "look up what you want on the web site and we'll have it brought in from the "other store" for you to look at". There's nothing but overpriced circ buffalos and MS69 moderns on the web site.

19Lyds

None in "My Town".

Only 1 in Auburn and finding them open is really a hit or miss thing.

Roseville has a couple and Folsom has a couple.

I'd really like to have more.

Davideo

None. Nearest shop is 169 miles away.

piecesofme

11 that I'm aware of in a 20 mile radius...NW IN just outside of Chicago, but in IN.

Jinx86

Well there's the shop I work in that mostly does bullion and very some very high end numis. I get stuck with the left overs to move online and in the displays.

Another shop in town that has me whooped on rare coins in stock and does bullion on the side.
A shop down town....not sure what they do or how they stay open.

lordmarcovan

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<< <i>Sorry, no chicken. We cater to vegans, remember? >>



Ahhh the carefully crafted trap was successful!!!!

Seitan is a Vegan product which is used by some as an alternative to meat. The Mongolian Vegan master should have certainly known that!!!!

>>



D'oh.

See? Toldja we shoulda opened a coin shop instead.

coinkat

Soy beans must be so yesterday...

Mission16

One.

MFH

Naples Florida.... Three

silverpop

1

kimber45ACP

0

ebaybuyer

I can count on one hand all the coin shops in my town, and its a nice round number.... ZERO. now to count the liquor stores... that could take a while

ricko

None at all......and one in a neighboring city that claims to be, but has no inventory.....Cheers, RickO

koynekwest

I can think of eight offhand in and around the Akron OH area.

SaorAlba

2

GrumpyEd

I can think of about 7 staying around and 5 that I used to frequent that are gone plus one that's going away soon.
Out of the 7 staying around one is fairly new and the rest are old.

Not exactly growing but not dead yet

Hat's off to the surviving BMs, it's nice to have you around!

luckybucks

I don't know of any in Leominster MA (where I live). But, there are probably a half a dozen or more in the area, that I am aware of: 1 in Milford NH, 1 in Plaistow NH, 1 in Gardner MA, 1 in Sterling MA, 2 in Worcester Ma, 1 in Concord Ma (by appointment only). There are probably 5 antique shops that have coins and currency in the area as well, the nearest on in Lunenburg MA.

brg5658

Number in town: 1

Number worth visiting: ZERO

ChangeInHistory

There's probably 6, or 7 in the SW suburbs of Chicago, NW Indiana, but there is only 2 or 3 worth going to.

telephoto1

At one time there were 4 real coin dealers (and two storefront stamp dealers!) in this town. Now we are one of two storefront coin dealers, although the competitor's store does sports cards, beanies and Nascar stuff also. Some of our customers who've been there said they've seen things like car rims there so maybe they've drifted into pawn shop territory. There is also a "jeweler" who buys coins (actually a glorified pawn shop, except they don't buy things like electronics, tools etc.) and there are three/four actual pawn shops that happen to dabble with coins.

oih82w8

One here in Abilene...not sure if it is open anymore.

garrynot

I am in Niles, IL. The northwest side of Chicago and there are 3 I can get to within 15 minutes. All good. One has an active bid board.

Flash

Just off the top of my head I can think of 5 shops within 20 miles of my house

BillyKingsley

In the place that I live, technically none, but the closest is about 7 minutes away by car...and it's a good shop, too.

We may have one other in the other next town over, also about 7 minutes away, but I have not been there since 2011 or 2012 and I don't know if he is still there. He didn't have as much to choose from, but he was still worth visiting.

nwcoast

Technically, zero in my own town. There are however several in the other towns which surround me.
As Swampboy said, perhaps ten, maybe more if you expand the area a bit.