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<p>[QUOTE="Steve E, post: 57577, member: 2147"]I guess this was my day for finds. Usually this flea market produces no coins at all, no coin dealers, just lots of glass cases crammed with everything imagineable. In one case, tucked behind all the $5 souvenir knives, I found a jar full of old well-handled 2x2's containing, to my surprize, nice BU Susan B's. Out of the 15 coins I found (3) '79 "Wide Rims" and was charged a whopping $5 for all 3. In yet another dealers case full of little plastic cars I found a brown envelope that contained 7 beautiful, CU British Armed Forces military payment certificates (5 Pence thru 1 Pound).</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought I hit the jackpot when I noticed 1 guy had about 20 nice circulated thru BU Morgan's thrown in with some fishing lures. I asked for a price and he replied, "they're on the back". When I turned them over sure enough, nice gummy paper price tags stuck right on the Rev of each coin. And they had been there a while and weren't coming off without chemical help!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Steve E, post: 57577, member: 2147"]I guess this was my day for finds. Usually this flea market produces no coins at all, no coin dealers, just lots of glass cases crammed with everything imagineable. In one case, tucked behind all the $5 souvenir knives, I found a jar full of old well-handled 2x2's containing, to my surprize, nice BU Susan B's. Out of the 15 coins I found (3) '79 "Wide Rims" and was charged a whopping $5 for all 3. In yet another dealers case full of little plastic cars I found a brown envelope that contained 7 beautiful, CU British Armed Forces military payment certificates (5 Pence thru 1 Pound). I thought I hit the jackpot when I noticed 1 guy had about 20 nice circulated thru BU Morgan's thrown in with some fishing lures. I asked for a price and he replied, "they're on the back". When I turned them over sure enough, nice gummy paper price tags stuck right on the Rev of each coin. And they had been there a while and weren't coming off without chemical help!!! :eek:[/QUOTE]
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