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Pawn shop find
crazyhounddog
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For some reason when I was shopping for Christmas presents I stopped at a little pawn shop on my way home up here in my little town in the mountains. Never much there but chain saws, guns, and more tools than you could ever want.
This time they had a bunch of .999 silver that was way over priced. But, way in the back of the second shelve I could see a dark Walker for sale. I asked the guy to look at it and it turns out to be a 29-s 
Hmm. The place was so dark I gave the coin back to the guy as they were closing, it was Saturday and I didn't have my loupe. Today they opened at 9:00, I was there at 9:15. Long story short I picked this up for dirt. I might be stopping in there more often
The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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You paid dirt for it, and you actually bought some dirt with it!
In knowing the price paid, I'd say you got a heckuva deal.
I like it. Congrats!
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Nice grab! You need to have the guy notify you when the previous owner of the coin does more pawning.
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How could you leave it behind the 1st time????
Nice grab, Joe. Beautiful coin.
Jim
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Your not the first guy to ask me that. Like I said it was dark, I didn't have my loupe and I live in a town that's not so populated and in that population even less coin collectors. I know that might be hard to believe but it's true. They were closing until 9:00 am today, I was there at 9:15 with loupe. It all worked out.
Great looking even at full price!!
I definatly like the look of that
HAPPY COLLECTING
Reading this thread, I guess some of us know the price of dirt, I don't. How much did you pay? Nice looking coin.
There's many different kinds of dirt, you know that right.
I don't wanna make it public information, I got flamed long ago when I got a good deal at a B & M one time. But this was a pawn shop so I guess that might be different. But, I still don't wanna spit it out. It was a great deal for me. I'm in it for me.
Please at least tell us the grade
: We say that it takes 500 to thousands of years to create an inch of topsoil. The reason is that soil is often derived from rock. The rock has to be broken into small pieces first.
Dirt can be expensive, timewise.
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No grade, it's raw. I put it in a plastic holder for safe keeping.
Is it in a 3rd world holder that you needed your loupe to look at the coin even though it was priced dirt cheap? By mentioning that it was dirt cheap is encouraging the "how much" crowd, so spill the beans!
How does no sound?
Dirt is no longer cheap. I sold 75,000 yards to one person a few years back. I had a great year.
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To what part? Is it graded by the big boys or not?
Not graded as I mentioned. It's a raw coin, not graded.
It appears to be in a Whitman single coin plastic holder. Finding a 1929-S Walker in that high a grade is most unusual. Unfortunately, based on the photos, especially the obverse photo, I suspect it has been cleaned, though not recently. Since the price was right you have nothing to worry about. Nice find.
All I can say is, I love Pawn Shops....
I could easily see the Pawn Shop selling this as a VF/XF/AU plain old 1929 Walker.
I could see the Pawn Shop selling this as a VF/XF/AU coin. Seems to potentially be MS. It's hard for hobby outsiders to understand "dirty" coins.
I would agree with the cleaned assessment, with XF/AU details. Sweet find.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Coins like that are cool especially when you find them in places you would never expect.
I love pawn shops as well. I bought a large group of silver 90% about 5 years ago at the local pawn shop. They had a copper coin with George Washington on it that I knew nothing about and had never seen before. I didn't buy it with all the other stuff and went back the next day and it was gone. I still don't know what it was or how much it was worth but I regret not buying it to this day.
Pawn shops pay cents on the dollar and can sell them cheap and still make money.
Nice find.
I'd keep in mind that much of what is at pawn shops has been bought at tiny fractions of real value usually with untruths dispensed by them why they can't pay what stuff is worth. I have bought chain saws there, but once again the ethical problem, possibly stolen, many times the cops don't connect the dots in time.
Not sure how deep the dirt was, but that is a nice Walker.... also, not sure if there was a savvy guy in the pawn shop...either the answer is no or the dirt on the coin fooled them....Either way, great find.... I should go into the pawn shop located in the city not far from here.... not sure if they have any coins..the one antique shop that has Morgans sells them for 4x value....and adds tax. Cheers, RickO
Nice pick up!
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I live in a small mountain town. All around me are small town with no coin shops. But, many antique shops and pawn shops. From time to time I'll drop in and take a look.
Thanks again and happy hunting, Joe
Thanks again and happy hunting, Joe>
Joe, I could have written that myself.... I have EXACTLY that situation..... In the Catskill Mountains, NYS. Cheers, RickO
Just like me
I live in a small gold rush town in the Northern California mountains called, Paradise. Moved up here in 89 after I sold my house in San Jose. Times were changing and I didn't wanna raise my family in the city so we moved up here and never looked back.
Back in 1859 a guy found what is known as the Dogtown nugget, about 3 miles from where I live. It was a 54 pound gold nugget that had the shape of a small loaf of bread. An amazing find to say the least. He actually tripped and fell on his ass over this massive nugget. My county was the third largest gold producer for the state back in the day. Today folks still find gold in the feather river and Butte creek.
Congratulations!! Neat find in an out of the way place.
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Normally I have this distrust of pawn shops and antique shops due to their buying and selling practices, but in your case, a nice find.
I also like coin hunting at pawn shops. I picked this up last week for "dirt".
When you look where the others do not look, you find.
Automotive swap meet, box of Morgans and Peace, all overpriced at $25 each, worn and tired, IIRC, except the one 95-S. I traded it in at Heritage and it graded at VG-8, IIRC.
Hope springs eternal! It does happen!
I found this at a pawn shop not too long ago. It was in a box of quarters marked $3.00 each.
Nice find Joe!
Not as nice as your beauties my friend.
Thanks
Sure is fun isn't it!
Always has been and I hope it always will be.
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No pic here, so move along if you so desire.
Greatest I have ever witnessed, at least indirectly.
Fellow (but now retired) teacher at my high school, and my assistant track coach (throws) whom I started out in collecting back around 1994. He started putting together lower grade stuff . . .Walkers, Buffs, etc. Simple guy, not very worldly, but a really good egg. I still travel with him to Long Beach once in a while from SLC. He has advanced quite a bit to this point, but I skip ahead . .
In his early years . . . thinking around 2001-2, he walked down the sidewalk approaching Rust Coin here in SLC. He was looking for some hole-fillers for his Walker Whitman folder, and was intercepted (outside the store) by a scruffy guy asking if he would look at 4 coins and make an offer. He is a rather quiet fellow and was intimidated, wanting to get out of the situation as fast as he could. The guy had two Indian cents and two Barber quarters. He wanted a token amount over face . . . I believe a dime each for the Indians and 2x face for the quarters. The Indians were common . . .1900 era in G-VG.
The two quarters were a 1907 and 1901-S.
He called me that night after looking in his RedBook, wanting to know if what he was reading was accurate. He actually had no clue.
Our hosts graded it G-6.
Drunner
The guys who take the business out of a rent paying store's mouth are creeps.
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If the guy directly approached him, how did he take any business from anyone?
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Who's the creep? Please explain yourself.
I have seen a few 1929-s WLH's that have somewhat PL surfaces. The last one was at an auction about three years ago. That was Truly an amazing coin. While this may have the look of a cleaned coin, it just may not be what it appears to be. Congrats. Take a good look and it just might be submission worthy
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