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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tompkins316, post: 1096283, member: 28947&quot;]Hey all,</p><p><br /></p><p>Just wanted to share a pretty good night I had for adding some coins to my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Started by going to a place near me that has a bunch of small shops in a farmers market, including 2 coin shops. The first has a lot of proofs, sets, and silver coins (almost all wayyyyy outta my price range now) but the second worked out pretty good for me. It is run by a guy who is probably older than half the coins he sells (one of the greatest and nicest guys I&#039;ve ever met too). He has a lot of old coins, from an 1857 flying eagle to 1945 merc dimes. I found a few coins I liked and when I went to tell him I wanted to see a 1904 barber dime, I didn&#039;t even get barber out of my mouth and he tossed 3 amazing quality barber dimes on the counter and said &quot;I knew you were gonna say Barber dime&quot; lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ended up getting a really nice 1911 barber dime (I&#039;ll make a thread within the next few days with pics to see what you would grade it at....my guess is probably XF-45, maybeee even AU), a 1903-O barber dime, and a 1927 standing liberty quarter. All for around $27.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then my girlfriend told me her dad found a bunch of coins he had and wanted to give me, since he doesn&#039;t collect at all. And she adds don&#039;t get excited though its just some old small stuff nothing crazy. So I go to her house and he has a little bowl full of coins. I find about 20-25 canadian pennies (all dated before 1970, 2 from &#039;40s, and a 1921 in great condition), and a bunch of canadian nickel, dimes, and quarters as well. So at this point I&#039;m thinking this is cool, but yeah, she was right nothing special really. Then I notice the rest are jefferson nickels. Probably about 30-40 of them. After going through I am happy to say I found all were before 1960, including about 10 from the &#039;50s, a bunch from the late &#039;40s, at least 8 silver war nickels, and 2 1939. Then it gets even better. I find about 8 buffalo nickels. The first 5 I find are all dateless. Then I get a 1927, an can easily make out the 927, a 1926 (also very easily made out), and then a full date 1937 (easily has to be the clearest date I&#039;ve seen on a buffalo yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, to top it all off, he hands me a plastic book thing and I open it to find a Proof St. Patrick commemorative medal, from Ireland, about the size of a morgan dollar or bigger. I read the paper to see it is made out of .999% pure Irish silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say I think I made off pretty well tonight <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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