Kudos to Northern Nevada Coin
donthehill
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Had an interesting experience this week. Was up in Reno, so I "had" to take a jaunt down to Carson City to visit the old mint.
Museum was great. Funny thing is that my favorite part was not apparently part of the main attractions. On the main floor (same floor that contains the section on coining and the coin press #1), you begin a fairly long tour of a mine, which decends into the building basement. When you come out of the mine, you get to experience some of the original white-painted bricks and get to see what appears to be an original vault door. "Unimproved" original buildings are way cool (same is true for coins I guess).
Anyway, after the tour, I had to go across the street and visit Nothern Nevada Coin (NNC). I have never been in such a well-stocked B&M coin store. I'd guess there are at 80-100 linear feet of cases filled with high-quality slabbed coins. Also, based on a quick sample of their prices relative to PCGS values, they're not out of line in their pricing. Unfortunately, I'm not in the high $/coin buying level at this time, (wife wanted a bigger house, which happened to come with a bigger mortgage payment, which comes from/consumes the coin budget), so I'm filling up some lincoln cent albums with circulated coins. I needed a suite of memorial cents, so I'm digging through their bins, which actually had some nice specimens. One of the guys behind the counter decides to help me, and pulls out some more from my list from the back.
In the end, I buy $7.50 worth of generally zero-value memorial-cent coins. Here comes the great part - they never gave the slightest impression that I wasn't worth their time because I wasn't going to lay out several hundred $ that day. Too many times I get the feeling that if it isn't going to be a big sale, I'm not worth the time, and I expected this behavior in spades when I saw the type of high-end coins they had in this shop. Just the opposite was the case. So here's to NNC and the day when I can consider purchasing some "real" items from them!
-drew
Museum was great. Funny thing is that my favorite part was not apparently part of the main attractions. On the main floor (same floor that contains the section on coining and the coin press #1), you begin a fairly long tour of a mine, which decends into the building basement. When you come out of the mine, you get to experience some of the original white-painted bricks and get to see what appears to be an original vault door. "Unimproved" original buildings are way cool (same is true for coins I guess).
Anyway, after the tour, I had to go across the street and visit Nothern Nevada Coin (NNC). I have never been in such a well-stocked B&M coin store. I'd guess there are at 80-100 linear feet of cases filled with high-quality slabbed coins. Also, based on a quick sample of their prices relative to PCGS values, they're not out of line in their pricing. Unfortunately, I'm not in the high $/coin buying level at this time, (wife wanted a bigger house, which happened to come with a bigger mortgage payment, which comes from/consumes the coin budget), so I'm filling up some lincoln cent albums with circulated coins. I needed a suite of memorial cents, so I'm digging through their bins, which actually had some nice specimens. One of the guys behind the counter decides to help me, and pulls out some more from my list from the back.
In the end, I buy $7.50 worth of generally zero-value memorial-cent coins. Here comes the great part - they never gave the slightest impression that I wasn't worth their time because I wasn't going to lay out several hundred $ that day. Too many times I get the feeling that if it isn't going to be a big sale, I'm not worth the time, and I expected this behavior in spades when I saw the type of high-end coins they had in this shop. Just the opposite was the case. So here's to NNC and the day when I can consider purchasing some "real" items from them!
-drew
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My Pop, who has zero experience/knowledge in numismatics, went to them one day a while back. Pop lives in Carson City. He told them that his son was into half dimes. They set him up with an extremely attractive, 100% problem free 1835 AU half dime in NGC plastic. The price they gave him was better than fair, it was good enough that if I'd have paid that price for that coin at a show I'd think I got a hell of a deal. No trying to wine & dine my Pop to buy super expensive stuff or trying to pawn off their problem junk to an unknowing newbie. Those guys are A #1 in my book. Below is the coin that Pop got from them and gave to me for Christmas.
this crusty H10C is my most recent purchase from N. Nev:
I look forward visiting them again somewhere in the future and can recommend them to everyone
Dennis
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Very nice story and sounds like some great guys run that shop.
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I've also had good experiences with them.
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<< <i>a few years back I went to Reno for vacation and stopped in too see them-- I got to see the broken CC dollar up close and personal-- these guys are great and the hospitality shown to me was nice-- I love Reno, Carson City and all the history of the area-- Can't say much for the "pirate" coin shop across the street from the old mint and Southgate coins was very rude!!!! >>
Actually, Southgate stopped their shop across the street from the Mint and now NNC is in that shop!
A great place for a coin shop, IMHO.
Dennis
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Remember I brought a CC dollar in my glove box in my truck along for ride, to "visit" home. heh.
Nice old coin shop. The Mint is a "Must see". Oh, and drive out to Virgina City a few miles out
to see where all the silver came from.
PS was on a Gold panning trip and dug up these.
100% Positive BST transactions