VISITED THE LOCAL COIN SHOP TODAY...

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• LucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭

  August 22, 2003 4:10PM

  and it sounds like you had fun, so it was a success!

  Be Bop A Lula!!
  "Senorita HepKitty"
  "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter

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• TWODOGS Posts: 1,419

  August 22, 2003 4:19PM

  I did Lucy, but really had my heart set on a $2 1/2 or $5 Indian. The best deal was a 1911-S $5 in a green AU-50 PCGS holder. Looked XF-40 to me. No detail on the headband whatsoever and absolutely no luster.

  J.C.
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  See ya on the other side, Dudes.

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• Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭

  August 22, 2003 6:05PM

  I have this coin shop near me that seems to have alot of totally overgraded slabbed coins. NGC Washingtons
  slabbed 66 that you can see scratches and milkspots etc...What IS the deal with these coins. He must have
  bought them at a grade or two lower and thinks he,ll sell them as stated? What crap.

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• SmallTownCoins Posts: 688 ✭✭

  August 23, 2003 1:39AM

  Good for you 2Dogs.... Coin shops are fun...... Next trip....Gold......

  Support your local Coin Shop
  LM-ANA3242-CSNS308-MSNS226-ICTA

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• TWODOGS Posts: 1,419

  August 23, 2003 3:16AM

  SmallTownCoins,
  
  You are right about coin shops being fun. Especially relatively quiet small town shops. For the past 3 years or so I have done tens of thousands of dollars worth of business with the owner of this particular shop. He gives me some really sweet deals at times.
  
  The nicest thing is, he lets me take any coin, no matter the value outside to check it out in the sunlight. We all know how bad the lighting is in those small shops.
  
  

  J.C.
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  See ya on the other side, Dudes.

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• SmallTownCoins Posts: 688 ✭✭

  August 23, 2003 3:20AM

  Holy BaJeeebie's..... I'm puting a shop up in your neighborhood !!!!

  Support your local Coin Shop
  LM-ANA3242-CSNS308-MSNS226-ICTA

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• ARCO Posts: 4,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 23, 2003 4:17AM

  I hear you on the gold. I have been looking for a nice type gold piece in each denomination, but even looking at slabbed coins below MS64 they all seemed to have gone through some industrial strength scrubbing machine. XF and AU coins just look horrible. I wonder if a single original XF or AU gold coin exists? I would sure love to see one.
  
  Tyler

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• TWODOGS Posts: 1,419

  August 23, 2003 5:12AM

  
  
  << <i>Holy BaJeeebie's..... I'm puting a shop up in your neighborhood !!!! >>
  
  About $7500 of that was in gold bullion when gold was between $257 and $275 an ounce. Of course I couldn't hang on to it long enough to make a profit, and wound up selling it back to him a bit at a time. So...he didn't make much on those transactions, and neither did I.
  
  I averaged between $300 and $500 a week spent when I was doing Swapmeets and local coin shows. I moved an awful lot of coins for him.

  J.C.
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  See ya on the other side, Dudes.

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• DHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭

  August 23, 2003 5:44AM

  Sounds like my kind of day. Instead, I'm stuck at work. I'll have to do my shopping Tuesday. It should be an all day adventure.

  Developing theory is what we are meant to do as academic researchers
  and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor

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