Yes I do. I had a paper route and saved all summer for a 1921 peace dollar, uncirculated. It was a super bright coin with the price of $20.00. Looking back I wish I would have bought many, many more of them....
The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
In the mid 60's there used to be a coin shop about 6 blocks from my home. A cousin of mine who got me started collecting coins used to come back with coins he purchased. I was collecting Lincoln cents and very close to completing the second Whitman blue book, I went with him to that coin shop to purchase a 1955-s BU cent. It cost me $1.00, but I went on to complete that album with the 49-s cent shortly afterward. I still have the coins housed in a mahogany cabinet with the rest of my childhood collection of cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, etc.
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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 ... ?
The first time I bought coins from a dealer on my own initiative was in or around 1965. I was with family at a Civil War re-enactment at Valentown Hall, where a wanna-be had set up outdoors. I bought a low grade nickel 3 cent, a couple low grade Indian cents and a low grade Shield nickel.
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Dahlonega Type Set-2008 PCGS Best Exhibited Set
Overland Trail Collection Showcase
Dahlonega Type Set-2008 PCGS Best Exhibited Set
<< <i>What the difference between "professional coin dealer" and "coin dealer?"/Q]
If you were a member of a local coin club, you would see the professional dealers and the want-bes.
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