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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Maine_Jim, post: 955761, member: 26382&quot;]First I must say hello. I am mostly a lurker here but this thread encouraged me to chime in with a few of my deals. I am a bit of a scrounger and it has served me well with my coin hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>My best deal was a collection of Indian cents found at our local recycling center for free! They were in a box of books thrown in the free pile. Didn&#039;t have the 1877 but many of the others. The coins are all in various circulated conditions. This find or deal, got me interested in coins again. </p><p><br /></p><p>I frequently search the banks as a CRH. This has led to some great finds at face value including silver Morgan, Peace and Ike dollars plus quite a few commemoratives including a Stone Mountain and Maine halves and a lot of junk silver. Often the tellers hand me the coins out of their trays and will ask if I really want this coin because its really old or &quot;weird&quot;. One of the &quot;weird&quot; comments came from a young teller as she opened a small bag of coins up and asked &quot;these are all weird, do you want any?&quot;. She handed me a 3 cent 1865 nickel, Peace, Morgan and Ike dollars, a Buffalo nickel (no date) and a few beat up Mercury dimes. She charged me face for all of it except the 3 center which she said came in as a dime. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also hit the pawn shops and have found a few nice coins there including a Capped Bust half and some graded coins plus a lot of junk silver. The best part is that I usually am trading in the things I&#039;ve scrounged for free or next to nothing from yard sales for the coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for deals from the coin dealers or ebay I&#039;ve never had much luck. My grading skills aren&#039;t there yet so I am reluctant to buy raw coins. Forums like this are helping though and have saved me from being taken advantage of. Everyone likes finding a deal!</p><p><br /></p><p>Maine_Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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