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<p>[QUOTE="LRC-Tom, post: 3600244, member: 25784"]In my very early days dabbling at coin dealership, I had a flea market space in Pasadena. An old fella came to my booth and showed me a coin he'd been holding since he had worked as a welder on the Bay Bridge. He decided he didn't need it any more, so he sold it to me. I almost didn't want to take it, considering his history, but I did. He was thrilled that I paid him the current wholesale price..he had no idea. It was a nice original unc, with OK toning from the manilla flip he had kept it in for all those years. May have gotten a 63 on a good day, but to me the story was worth it all. I resold it, and am now kinda sorry I did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LRC-Tom, post: 3600244, member: 25784"]In my very early days dabbling at coin dealership, I had a flea market space in Pasadena. An old fella came to my booth and showed me a coin he'd been holding since he had worked as a welder on the Bay Bridge. He decided he didn't need it any more, so he sold it to me. I almost didn't want to take it, considering his history, but I did. He was thrilled that I paid him the current wholesale price..he had no idea. It was a nice original unc, with OK toning from the manilla flip he had kept it in for all those years. May have gotten a 63 on a good day, but to me the story was worth it all. I resold it, and am now kinda sorry I did.[/QUOTE]
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