Bumbling cherrypicker at the show today.

Russ · May 10, 2008 5:41AM

So, I'm standing there at a dealer's table going through a box of proof and mint sets he just got in. Guy comes up and asks to see 2008 Silver Eagles. Now, this dealer is no dummy, so he asks what the guy is looking for. Guy mumbles something about looking for "different" ones. Dealer presses. Guy is like, "well, you know, just different". Finally the guy says something about some having different reverses, but still doesn't come right out and say it.

Dealer gives him a roll, they chat a bit about it while the guy's looking at the coins and then the guy says something about some of them being worth as much as $75 if they're "different". After the guy leaves the dealer and I have a good laugh as he tells me he already knew there were no reverse of 2007's in the roll.

Russ, NCNE

rgCoinGuy · May 10, 2008 5:44AM

Thanks for the laugh!

doh · May 10, 2008 5:44AM

To me it would have been funnier if the dealer just would have said, "There are no reverses of 2007 to be cherrypicked here..."

oldwestgold · May 10, 2008 5:47AM

And if that was a roll of the standard bullion versions (not the W's) it would even be more hilarious....

TwoSides2aCoin · May 10, 2008 6:10AM

Yeah, them secret snipers are late bloomers

Ya gotta love this place for instant information.

kryptonitecomics · May 10, 2008 6:24AM

Russ....as usual...another not funny post

Ok...that was pretty funny

keets · May 10, 2008 6:28AM

So, I'm standing there at a dealer's table going through a Roll of 2008 Silver Eagles he just got in. Guy comes up and asks to see his 1964 Proof Sets. Now, this dealer is no dummy, so he asks what the guy is looking for. Guy mumbles something about looking for "different" ones. Dealer presses. Guy is like, "well, you know, just different". Finally the guy says something about some having different obverses, but still doesn't come right out and say it.

Dealer gives him a box of sets, they chat a bit about it while the guy's looking at the coins and then the guy says something about some of them being worth as much as $75 if they're "different". After the guy leaves the dealer and I have a good laugh as he tells me he already knew there were no Accented Hair Kennedy's.

-----kind of puts things in perspective since we often forget how naive we once were and we thought we knew something noone else did, so we needed to keep the "secret" to ourselves.

loro1rojo · May 10, 2008 7:27AM

<< <i>To me it would have been funnier if the dealer just would have said, "There are no reverses of 2007 to be cherrypicked here..." >>

I was told those same exact words by a dealer last sunday..

ricko · May 10, 2008 9:06AM

Actually, Today... at that very show, Russ DID cherry pick an accented hair.... He got there at the opening, I was an hour late... So, a great show for Russ, and a not so great show for me.... Cheers, RickO

JrGMan2004 · May 10, 2008 9:11AM

<< <i>So, I'm standing there at a dealer's table going through a box of proof and mint sets he just got in. Guy comes up and asks to see 2008 Silver Eagles. Now, this dealer is no dummy, so he asks what the guy is looking for. Guy mumbles something about looking for "different" ones. Dealer presses. Guy is like, "well, you know, just different". Finally the guy says something about some having different reverses, but still doesn't come right out and say it.

Dealer gives him a roll, they chat a bit about it while the guy's looking at the coins and then the guy says something about some of them being worth as much as $75 if they're "different". After the guy leaves the dealer and I have a good laugh as he tells me he already knew there were no reverse of 2007's in the roll.

Russ, NCNE >>

Any particular reason why he'd take Burnished Silver Eagles out of the packaging and caps and put them into rolls?

lathmach · May 10, 2008 9:40AM

Funny.
I suppose.
I always look through everything in Seated Quarters I can. And you know what? Sometimes I find rare varieties in picked over lots of coins.

Ray

astrorat · May 10, 2008 11:46AM

When I first started collecting seriously back in the early 1980's (at the time I started working in a local coin shop) I always enjoyed going into a couple of the local dealers to do some cherry picking. Even though there was "nothing to be found," seems on occasion I could find something.

One of the more humorous times was when I visited a shop with a non-collecting friend in search of the "hot" modern coins, the 1979-S Type II proof sets. As I was searching through this particular dealer's stock, he said to me in a very condescending and dismissive tone, "You won't find any Type IIs in there!" My response was, with a smile, "Of course not." But I bought 4 of his 10 sets anyway...all Type II (which at the time I could flip for 10x the Type I price). My friend was stunned that it was that easy. I told him that arrogance causes blindness.

Lane

AJ2525 · May 10, 2008 1:47PM

Not quite in the same league, but

Many years ago when I first started collecting Kennedys the bank teller told me

"These rolls have already been looked through for silver, you won't find anything good."

Okay, no silver, but it did have my first 1974-D DDO.

DHeath · May 11, 2008 12:54AM

Moderns have grown up. Most B&M's are careful not to give away anything obvious. Type II 81 proof sets, SD 70 Lincolns, 72 TII Ikes, etc.

adamlaneus · May 11, 2008 1:18AM

<< <i>I told him that arrogance causes blindness.

Lane >>

Hooray for blindness and arrogance!!! And I always thought I should avoid those sorts of dealers!!!

Interesting story about giving a roll of ASEs to the guy. Those were all non-W bullion coins, I take it? Funny, I agree, but he probably left all sorts of fingerprints and now they'll spot like there is no tomorrow. A story with a sad edge or two...

Bumbling cherrypicker at the show today.

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