Do you ever trade or barter for coins?

TopographicOceans

As a kid with baseball cards we'd trade - like a Don Drysdale and a Steve Garvey for a Mickey Mantel card.

I never traded coins - always bought and sold with cash.

Have you done any coin trades with no cash involved? Or have you ever bartered anything for coins?

Who got the best end of the deal?

Boosibri

Just traded a coin this week for another, but I threw in cash to make the deal squared.

123cents

Not often but I have on a few occasions.

CoinCast

I trade a lot. Only time I remember trading straight across was fairly recently when the totals just happened to add up.

pitboss

I have done it quite often here on the BST forum and also with ebay members I trust.

It has worked out quite nicely for both parties.

CuKevin

I have done a few trades with coins. Most of the time there has been cash involved going one way or the other. I can't say I have ever bartered non-numismatic goods for numismatic goods though. In terms of who got the better deal, both parties always walked away happy.

Timbuk3

I've traded before !!!

Type2

All kinds of stuff for coins... Gold rings, Silver rings, Notes, Tokens, Cars, Trucks, I was grading coin for Gold coin's once. I helped out at a coin shop once and they paid me my hr's in Gold for my time, It was all good.

lunytune2

I am a landscaper and did a lot of work for my local dealer. Acquired 5-6 gold pieces that way . Sometimes he would just pay me. But we traded retail for retail. I probably made out better. Unfortunately he grew to 10 locations and is mostly cash for gold , never see him anymore , it is all run by his employees.

lasvegasteddy

as a kid back in st.louis
my buddies n me worked the neighborhood with shoveling driveways and mowing yards
we always asked if they had old coins or just to pay us just a couple bucks...never got old coins from old farts or they was scared of us kids asking

then we'd head off to woolworths to buy ice cream and buy some coins out of the coin & stamp isle/counter

we'd hold lil auctions between us but mostly we was wheeling n dealing in trades
i'll give my XXXX-X for your XXXX-X

but fireworks always took front stage around the 4th of july
then we'd be cruising the woods on our royce unions with with M-80's and cherry bombs in our pockets

so yeah i've traded coins for M-80'S & CHERRY BOMBS or coins for coins

i'd still trade coins for coins
but as adults...myself speaking...i'm too "adulterated" in a way

"WHY...WHAT YOU GOT...MAYBE WE COULD WORK A DEAL HERE"

lasvegasteddy

that'd be a great registry "showcase" theme..."let's make a deal coins"
lil mini stores without disturbing the buy sell trade forum

ricko

I never traded coins....that would mean I would have to give up one of mine - no way. Cheers, RickO

291fifth

Back in the 1960s COIN WORLD had a section called Trading Post that was dedicated to trading between collectors. It was initially very popular but declined when pseudo-dealers moved in and started offering "trades" that were nothing more than thinly disguised offers to sell.

I used Trading Post for awhile but eventually stopped because of too many problems with overgraded coins.

GotTheBug

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BillJones

I have traded coins many times. The most complex deal, which occurred over 20 years ago, was a three way swap. It was so long ago that the only certified coins in those days were ANACS certificates.

I gave a coin to a dealer who gave other coins to a second dealer who in turn gave the coin I wanted to me. This took place at a show, and the transaction took an hour or so to complete. In essence I traded a 1907 No Periods $10 Indian gold piece for an 1802 over 0 half cent.

Casman

Considering it as we speak...A few easy cases for 1 Kennedy gold. I'd told my buddy not to buy any and he bought 10 and threw them in the closet.

Browe

I trade my cherry picks for things for my personal set. The dealer I trade with gives very fair prices across the board. So I might take 1-5 pieces with me, and exchange them for 1-3 pieces for my registry. I've probably been doing this for 3 years now, and it's worked great for both parties.

mustangmanbob

I had stop collecting for about 15 years, high school, low draft number, guaranteed employment by Uncle Sam in an Asian Wonderland.

One of the sergeants was getting ready to retire and he talked about getting a reel to reel tape player so he could make his own tapes and run speakers out to the barns.

He was looking at a 5" machine. I had a Technics 10" that I picked up overseas, and decided I did not want it. It had auto reverse, and on the slowest speed, it could play for 10 hours, IIRC.

He had a rather large coin collection, mostly common, lots of rolls of BU silver Dollars, lots of albums, a real mish mash.

He did not want them anymore and I did not want the Reel to Reel. There was one in a local store for $2200 (I had paid a LOT less overseas, as it had been returned, needed repair, sent back to the US, and when it came back, the original owner was not around anymore).

Even trade straight up.

COALPORTER

if YOU traded for a Mantel card, you probably got a fake.

Jinx86

I have one trade going on as we speak. Collectible US Bank Notes for Numis Gold.

I've done other trading, my lot of 10 junk cars to local scrapper for his two 49 chevy pickups.

I've always want to try a year of trading up like the guy who traded enough on craigslist to turn some low dollar item into a car after a year or so of bartering.

seanq

I used to trade all the time with another collector who was also building sets of clipped coins. He was working on any different series and epmhasizing completeness, while I was focusing on Lincoln cents only. Many times I traded him a coin in a lower grade plus a handful of type coins or missing dates from his other sets, in exchange for a big upgrade to my Lincolns. I acquired a really pretty mint state 1931 Lincoln with a big clip this way, he got a circ example with a smaller clip plus a bunch of other stuff to fill his folders.


Sean Reynolds

JRocco

Yes
I am still in the collecting phase and have not entered the selling stage of this hobby.
At this time the only way a coin leaves my collection is by trade.

jmcu12

I try to trade all the time but usually no one is interested. Granted the stuff I am trying to trade is less liquid or more esoteric, so I don't blame the other guy for not wanting to get into a coin more than what they can get, or be able to market.

ambro51

Yes. I've been creative, often three way... to finance large buys

DDR

I've done trades with collectors of my specialty; I actually prefer them to sales.

nwcoast

Yes indeed.
Especially when silver was up there in price. I would often trade bulk 90% commons for higher quality dates I was in need of.
Looking back on some of those trades, the prices of those semi-keys have held up better than the bullion value over the time span.

AUandAG

I don't trade coins for coins but do trade coins for dental work.

bob

DennisH

Just did a trade before the end of the year and I am very pleased.

asheland

Traded many times!

TwoSides2aCoin

Never traded baseball , basketball or football cards for coins, but I did trade my credit card for thousands of dollars worth of coins in recent years.



Did some bartering with CaptHenway for some Hockey Pucks using gold. Yeah, sure. Why not. To fill an order, I'd trade most anything.
Traded a lot of silver eagles for a little gold, too. _ _ _ _ happens when cash isn't king.