Featured Four states, 1500 miles, 23 coins shops, a disastrous hotel stay, and 10 days later...

Agreed. Any businessman worth his salt knows that people want to spend their money with friendly people. I will say though that in this day and age, people have to be cautious. There are a lot of nefarious people out there. You walk into my place and you will be treated as a friend, though I also own the most heavily armed place of business in town too…. Just last year a fellow drove his truck into the side of a local coin shop…… Sometimes it’s difficult to be friendly and casual with a stranger when you have many thousands of dollars of easily transportable goods laying around.

 

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This is really one of the coolest posts I have seen in a long time, the map really makes it, and that is a nice haul you got. As a former hotelier, the "disastrous hotel stay" was what drew me in to read the post. Glad it wasn't the actual hotel that was disastrous.

 

I get what you are saying but I don't feel like they're wary; they just act like you're bothering them. I feel like the one store in particular I'm thinking of probably sells most of their stuff online and uses their shop to buy. So if you come in to buy they don't want you.

 

Great write up.
We always include coin store stops when ever we take a lengthy road trip. Every time at least 50% of the shops are closed due to vacation, wedding, funeral, out lunch, out on errands. I have learned to call ahead about an hour before we pass through the town.
Also, that is an amazingly crazy large impressive collection of albums!!!!
Great job

 

Very cool adventure! I'd seen your post on Reddit with the pictures, but didn't read all the details until now -- quite an excellent write up.

Now comes the hard/fun part: filling every single hole in every single album, right?

 

That would be great! Thank you!

That's definitely the hope. A good amount of the modern albums are already filled actually

 

jesus that huge how much you spent??? that's cool

 

Thanks for sharing, interest read. Looks like a Super road trip. Yes ones MMV between different shops.

 

Interesting trip for sure, great write up as well.

 

I enjoyed the read and experiment. I miss being able to visit coin shops as there aren’t too many around here. I enjoy living vicariously through posts like this

 

Roughly $2,000 on just supplies and coins

 

I would love to take a trip like that.
Not for Dansco's though, I would be in the out of the way pawn shops and Antique stores, talking to the community.
The kiddo is looking for a trip this summer. Fun times Dansco!
Supposed to be a fishing trip to Grand lake for the crappie in April.

 

I'm so envious there's no way I could do a run like that even here in good ol New Zealand .Most of my dealer and collector buddies have passed on a whole new generation have popped up.Congrats on your purchases looks like hours of fun to me .I just love new stuff. Anyway I'm sad to think some racism may be involved collectors should have a bond and the ones I know love discussing their preferences.
I need a little help I saw a small lot of 'SHIP' tokens probably British 4d .2d & penny that type of denomination .That's all they have SHIP on one side denomination on obverse .Discussion went to pubs called ship but doesn't make sense.If a ship token the name should be on there ?? Has anyone seen these brass/bronze tokens before ? Pleased to be a newbie ,I'm a Kiwi from New Zealand .I collect coins ,tokens & stamps. I have US subway tokens old and newer I was going to mount a travel token lot on a board & frame but I get busy and distracted how to mount , both sides must be visible ?? Plus no damage . Cheers Paul

 

nice roadtrip!

 

I've traveled all over the US and Canada over the past 5 decades. And every single time, I would know ahead of time what items come out of the car into the hotel room. Sometimes it would be the entire contents of my car I would unload into my hotel or motel room and reload into the car in the morning. Two reasons, I did not want someone stealing my stuff and I did not want someone breaking into the car itself. One simply cannot, even parking right in front of a motel room's window, protect items from theft if they are left in a car.

If you have a larger car, there are carts that are good to pack with it so that you can simply unload onto a cart and pull that in. I have something like this, though the handle is fully different and it doesn't have a mesh bottom, has bars across. Though mine was pricey (I had two, but the larger one was given for use for someone and I allowed that person to sell it after their use of it; I keep the smaller one because it can fit in my car if I need it) it is really, IMO worth it. Without a mesh, I can also put in a wood panel to fit the bottom to help hold things that are not as wide as the bars.



Yes, it took time and in a few motel rooms, I had almost no room to get to the bathroom from the bed, based on all the things I packed in my car. But I slept knowing that in the morning I could re-load it into the car and continue on.

Also, except for one motel (in Utah) where I unloaded all my stuff only to find that the place had bugs. Because it was late and I was tired and it was miles from another motel I did sleep there, though as preservation, at night, I did not leave my stuff on the floor or bed, but piled it on chairs and the table and such as I could to help deter some of the critters if possible. In the morning it took longer to get my stuff back in the car because I had to first go through all my stuff and make sure I carried no critters out to the car. Luckily in this case I was not parked in a situation where people were really observing me well. Then I had to shower and go. Yes, I did tell the office that it was unsatisfactory.

 

A heads up that my road trip is now posted on CoinWeek!

https://coinweek.com/coin-road-trip-four-states-23-coins-shops/

 

Between my stuff, my wife's stuff and the stuff for the dog I always felt like a sherpa taking our stuff up to a room.