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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 718913, member: 13650"]I've only stopped to look at one pawn shop out of curiosity. They had a few trays of stuff in 2x2s. All common. Nothing good. All over priced. Beyond that they had a bunch of margarine containers with junk silver in them. Silver was down at the time. </p><p><br /></p><p> The coins in those containers looked cleaned but were sticky. I was looking for key dates, mms, but I had a strong feeling about 100 people had sorted through them before me. They wanted $4 a piece for a silver quarter and $6 a piece for common circulated Franklin halves. It was a joke.</p><p><br /></p><p> Keep in mind most pawn shop owners won't really have a clue about coins. They've got to be the easiest places to pass off a fake and I'm sure people take advantage of that all the time. </p><p><br /></p><p> Most of them have got to be pretty much the same so I would not recommend the places. There's just so many better options.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 718913, member: 13650"]I've only stopped to look at one pawn shop out of curiosity. They had a few trays of stuff in 2x2s. All common. Nothing good. All over priced. Beyond that they had a bunch of margarine containers with junk silver in them. Silver was down at the time. The coins in those containers looked cleaned but were sticky. I was looking for key dates, mms, but I had a strong feeling about 100 people had sorted through them before me. They wanted $4 a piece for a silver quarter and $6 a piece for common circulated Franklin halves. It was a joke. Keep in mind most pawn shop owners won't really have a clue about coins. They've got to be the easiest places to pass off a fake and I'm sure people take advantage of that all the time. Most of them have got to be pretty much the same so I would not recommend the places. There's just so many better options.[/QUOTE]
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