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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ConfederateHalf, post: 26645637, member: 27946&quot;]Yep - that&#039;s not unusual in my experience.&nbsp; We have a pawn shop in my area of Alabama that is known for having a pretty decent selection of both junk silver and numismatic coins.&nbsp; The dude who handles the coins there is a 30-something fella with good knowledge of numismatics who hits the coin show circuit from time to time. He&#039;s not mean, but but he is definitely scared to death of ME because he can tell that I know coins. LOL...</p><p><br /></p><p>As I cherry pick through his inventory he gets rather fidgety and comes along every so often looking closely at what I&#039;ve selected and if he sees anything that looks &quot;choice&quot; in condition or variety or date, he lets me know that it will cost a bit more than what he quoted for all the other stuff I picked out of his junk silver bags.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t really bother me - I&#039;m more bemused by it than anything else.&nbsp; Despite his efforts to closely police my cherry picking I typically make off with most of what I want for a good price.&nbsp; I did a good job cleaning him out of nice Franklin Halves and Mercury Dimes last July when silver was $37 an ounce.&nbsp; Virtually everything I bought was XF-AU to BU and even a few proofs, but I had to dicker with him a bit over them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I gotta tell you - if I had known that silver was gonna blast off like it did in the late Fall of 2025 I would have gone back in August and cleaned him out - even if I had to put it all on the zero-interest credit card![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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