Round Rock, TX show NewP- A sentimental object from my coin collecting childhood.
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I grew up in San Antonio, TX, and started collecting coins around 1977 - 1978, when I was 8 or 9.
The closest coin shop to us was Alamo Heights Coin Shop, located on Austin Highway. The very first coins I ever bought were purchased there. Here are a few of them:
Anytime my dad or grandparents sent me money for my birthday or Christmas, a good part of it was spent there. One of the things I remembered the most about the shop was the cash register. It didn't calculate anything, it just allowed for handwritten receipts with carbon copies to be made and had a cash drawer. I liked the art-deco logos on it, but what I remember most are the coin decals someone had applied- they were of silver quarters dated 1950 and 1934.
I continued buying coins from that shop into adulthood. After getting into variety collecting, I noticed one day while I was there that the 1934 quarter on one of the decals was the doubled die. It just so happened that the coin the decal company used as a model happened to be the variety, and I thought that was really cool.
The coin shop closed down around 2008 - 2009 and the shopping center it was in was torn down so a new Target store could be built. The owner, Butch, continues to setup at shows around Texas, and I see him at many of them.
At the Dallas ANA, I was talking to him and asked about the cash register. He said "It's in storage. Why, do you want to buy it?" I hadn't really planned on that but told him I might if the price was right. He quoted me $25.00 and I agreed.
At the Round Rock show yesterday, he delivered the register. Here is is in all it's glory- it still has the quarter decals on it, including the 1934 DDO. A lot of $5 bills from my dad and grandparents went into that register over the years:
I'm not quite sure where I'm going to put it, or if I even have room to display it, but I have it and that's cool
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The closest coin shop to us was Alamo Heights Coin Shop, located on Austin Highway. The very first coins I ever bought were purchased there. Here are a few of them:
Anytime my dad or grandparents sent me money for my birthday or Christmas, a good part of it was spent there. One of the things I remembered the most about the shop was the cash register. It didn't calculate anything, it just allowed for handwritten receipts with carbon copies to be made and had a cash drawer. I liked the art-deco logos on it, but what I remember most are the coin decals someone had applied- they were of silver quarters dated 1950 and 1934.
I continued buying coins from that shop into adulthood. After getting into variety collecting, I noticed one day while I was there that the 1934 quarter on one of the decals was the doubled die. It just so happened that the coin the decal company used as a model happened to be the variety, and I thought that was really cool.
The coin shop closed down around 2008 - 2009 and the shopping center it was in was torn down so a new Target store could be built. The owner, Butch, continues to setup at shows around Texas, and I see him at many of them.
At the Dallas ANA, I was talking to him and asked about the cash register. He said "It's in storage. Why, do you want to buy it?" I hadn't really planned on that but told him I might if the price was right. He quoted me $25.00 and I agreed.
At the Round Rock show yesterday, he delivered the register. Here is is in all it's glory- it still has the quarter decals on it, including the 1934 DDO. A lot of $5 bills from my dad and grandparents went into that register over the years:
I'm not quite sure where I'm going to put it, or if I even have room to display it, but I have it and that's cool
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Very cool memento, now you have to open a shop. Can I write you some hot checks?
Got a close up of the 1934 motto? We have to guess the grade on it.
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That's pretty cool.
Sweet!
Looks like it cranked, needs a handle(?), great Kantslip name and quarters decals, huge storage box below the mechanism, for $25, I'd buy it it a second. The vertical sriping looks preety speedy / fast / racy.
Sweet!
Looks like it cranked, needs a handle(?), great Kantslip name and quarters decals, huge storage box below the mechanism, for $25, I'd buy it it a second. The vertical sriping looks preety speedy / fast / racy.
The crank is there, and it works. From what I remember, it had receipts on a roll. They would write out the receipt, then turn the crank and the finished receipt would come out of the top. It was perforated, and they would give me a copy (the original, if I remember correctly) and keep the carbon. The money went in the cash drawer (the box below- this image is actually the back of the register that faced into the shop.) I wish I still had one of those receipts!
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Congrats on the purchase. I bet your wife is gonna be thrilled when you proudly display that on the coffee table!
My wife is very understanding, but I made sure the appropriate permissions were in place before bringing it home. I still don't know where I'm going to put it- it's a lot bigger than I planned.