I like that swiss 1 Batzen a lot. As a matter of fact I think you got some good find all round there! Our LCS closed and was only taking appointments if you had LARGE (read $10k+) sales to make or purchases of over $1k. Poor bums like me didn't have a chance....
That's a pretty special opportunity. My favorite thing to do is to find a coin shop with a bunch of unsearched foreign coins where I can just look through and buy hundreds of good coins. This is why foreign coins are so great. You never get to do this with U.S. coins.
Not sure what the deal was. He may have owned the building... Been in the same spot for many many years