Flea Market Finds....and a new direction.. Seated Dimes

kryptonitecomics · June 29, 2008 9:00AM

Thanks to Skyman I am now regressing back to my collecting roots lol When I really got serious about my collecting say about 15 years ago I was buying up all of the seated dimes and half dimes I could find from my local dealer...along with a few mercs here and there. Thanks to Sy's gift of a seated dime the other day I decided to leave most of the plastic tombs behind and get back into going after some classic coinage.

So last night I picked up this on Ebay:

Then today I took a trip to my local flea market not expecting to find much but hoping that a dealer I have done business with on numerous occasions would have some seated material. I was pleased to find a few nice examples for my new album and they are about as close to problem free as you can find these days with seated material so while not perfect.....at least they aren't blast white and polished. They certainly looked a lot better than the cleaned and beat up examples I saw on Ebay

ok...ok....and so I also saw this pretty little chocolate brown 1922-D that just called to me as well

YaHa · June 29, 2008 9:11AM

Any fleas in a cage today, I thought they were outlawed at the markets. In my area our huge flea market was raided many vendors arrested for selling off brand NIKE Tennis shoes and designer named clothes. Estimate in bogus goods over $610,000.

No coin dealers to be found.

DorkGirl · June 29, 2008 9:35AM

Those are not what I would consider your typical look, anyway what you used to always buy. I like them, and good luck with your new album.

kryptonitecomics · June 29, 2008 9:41AM

Yes not what I used to get but nicer than what I saw on Ebay unless they were in plastic......times change I guess but it looks like I will have to settle for less original coins but as long as they have some crust I guess they will look ok in the new album

Flea Market Finds....and a new direction.. Seated Dimes

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