Share some good stories from inside the coin shop.
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Stopped by the local coin shop and waited behind a guy ordering two monster boxes of ASE's. He loudly said so I can pick them up on the 11'th of next month. I told the dealer that the guy needed a lesson in discretion. He agreed.
Wisdom goes with that as well
Yeah, like buy some gold instead of all that heavy silver. 🤓
Well the dealer also complained about having to carry them to his car.
What the heck is a Coin Shop?
I want saw a woman come in off the street with a 1 ounce gold panda she found in a park. The dealer ran some tests and gave her $710 for it. She about freaked out. (It was a fair price for an ounce of gold at the time)
It would have been great to run a metal detector where she found that Panda in the park
Maybe he was really picking them up on the 8th.
LOL !!!
@Raybo said:
What the heck is a Coin Shop?
My thoughts exactly....I left the PNW 11 years ago, and since then, saw only one coin shop, and that was in Wilmington, NC when visiting my daughter....This area is a coin desert...
Cheers, RickO
Haven't been to the B/M for some time but as soon as I walked in I rec the hey where have you been haven't seeing you in a while and I side working. Then came the Dave has been out sick he was backed up but it's all good now they cleared his pip's.
We have no shame after we get to a certain age.
Hoard the keys.
Remember the old match boxes that held the WOODEN matches?
Well, one day an elderly lady walked in with one and wanted to know what the contents were worth. I emptied it into my hand and saw a few seated Liberty dimes and the rest were Indian cents. EVERYTHING was dated 1877! After offering on the deal she was in tears with the money she was getting. I asked how in the world she had a small hoard of 1877 coins. It was her mother’s birth year and they saved any coin they could find in circulation of that date. They never had enough money to save anything above a dime!
Some days are just better than others for everyone involved.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
Coin shop? I have one 100 yards out my front door and have been there twice in the past three years.
On a side note, I get a call from my Realtor (he knows I collect) and John says that he has some kids that inherited their parents home and were going to do a estate sale next weekend. Said that they had some coins, not many, and asked if I would want to look at them before the sale. He said let's meet tomorrow at 10 as he's taking pics for the MLS then and they would be there as well.
Got there and the "kids" were 50ish. The coins were on the kitchen table. After a few pleasantries I examined all the loose and wrote prices as I went on my yellow pad. They quietly sat and just watched....not a peep. Then there was a partial tube of 17 1/10 ounce gold eagles. I weighed a few and louped, and then wrote it on the pad. Her eyes bugged out and it was obvious. Her brother just had a jaw drop. I wrote a nice big check to two very, very happy "kids". It surprised them as they had never even seen a real gold coin. She said she thought they were probably worth a buck or two each....haha.
Pleasant transaction just not in the coin shop.
bob
Great stories!
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going to a coin shop tomorrow, I doubt i will have any "good" stories, just want to pick up a few coins for my albums...
We don't have a "shop" per se, but we do meet with the public by appointment in our office on a regular basis. Usually people bring in stuff that's worth much less than they thought and/or were hoping. However, I do have a good news story to share.
A woman came in once with her elderly mother with some currency. The mom did not speak English (she was Japanese), so her daughter was handling the translating. They had currency that had belonged to the woman's husband who had since passed away and so took it to a local bank to deposit. Turns out they were $1000 notes (five of them). Fortunately the teller at the bank told them that the notes were probably worth more than face value and to perhaps come show them to us.
Imagine their delight when I paid them between $1350 to $1750 per note. It made my day, and of course theirs!
Worked in a shop for four years. Too many crazy stories to tell here, but my favourite phone call went as follows, translated from French.
Me: "Hello"
Crazy woman: "Me, I have a round coin. IT'S WORTH SOMETHING???"
Me: "I don't think so." Hangs up.
Much better when spoken with a heavy joual Quebecois accents (very low-brow, working class -- kind of like the Cockney of Quebec).
Dealing in Canadian and American coins and historical medals.
I have a story about my cousin... He knows I dabble in coins and he found his childhood coin collection in his closet when he went back east to visit his parents. He asked me to look through them and I could buy whatever I wanted... so I went through it and picked out all the junk silver maybe $10 face... but he had a massive ziplock bag filled with foreign coins(from all over the world) that I had no clue about and he didn’t either. So I referred him to a coin shop that I use to go to in the city he lives in... Later that week he called to inform me that the coin shop had closed down and there was now a small pawn shop in its place. He decided to go in and see if the guy could help him out and see if he had something rare. He said he walked in and the guy had a very thick Russian accent that was kind of hard to understand. He said he plopped the bag on the counter and the guy started going through them... he said the shop was empty and the guy really didn’t seem interested but probably decided to look them over to pass the time. In his heavy Russian accent he went one by one "shit.... trash....shit....trash.....shit" my cousin sat there with major disappointment on his face. The Russian would look up at him every so often and continue "shit....trash....shit" The Russian guy got down to the final 3 coins and perked right up almost standing at attention.... lifted one of them up and said "This is it!!! You have a good one!!! My cousin was pumped and perked right up with him.... What is it??? This is special coin...I can’t believe it....(in broken English) This is from Mother Russia... my cousin only had dollar signs in his eyes and said what’s it worth? He replied This is a good coin.... to wipe ass with!!! The guy broke out into loud laughter !!! Needless to say my cousin walked out of there deflated....
So, dis guy calls up and says he gots a good deal on sum coins at da swap meet.
Wants me to look at em and see what I thinks.
Then he tells me he gotsd a 1928 Hawaiian and 1918 Lincoln Halfs for only fifty bucks!
So I laughs, Haw Haw Haw, and let him have it and tells him I don't need to see em. Theys fakes for sure.
Boy, has dat guy got some learnin to do.
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Just Kidding
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