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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 4580967, member: 15588&quot;]I unfortunately don&#039;t have a picture of one of my most meaningful coins because it&#039;s in a vault in a different location some miles away, but it was the first gold coin that I ever purchased, a simple Dos Pesos Mexican gold coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember exactly where I bought it and who I bought it from. I bought it years ago from an extremely helpful, patient and friendly coin dealer who ended up dying unexpectedly only a year or two later. He had a very small shop next to a bowling alley in a strip mall, pretty much a closet. Only about 3 to 4 people could fit into it at a time, but it remains the most memorable coin store that I ever did business with.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was much younger then and worked evenings, so I could show up right when he opened and have the shop all to myself. Everything I showed an interest in he would give me background on, or give advice or tell a story about how he came across the piece. More than once he suggested that I <i>not</i> buy a particular coin for this or that reason. He earned my solid trust. Being much younger at the time, I also wasn&#039;t an extremely profitable customer, but he still took the time to make me feel important and valued and it all seemed genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I asked to buy the Dos Pesos gold, he smiled and said &quot;Oh oh! You&#039;re getting into gold!&quot; He was right. I think it cost about $30 at the time, which seemed like a lot to me then, and I&#039;ve held onto it. I should get it out of the vault&nbsp; someday and at least take a photo of it, but it looks pretty much like any other Dos Pesos gold piece one would come across. I still miss that shop.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day, maybe a year or two ago, I found myself in the shop&#039;s former area and had some time to waste, so I went back to the strip mall. Sadly, all traces of the shop had vanished. Even the hallway where it once existed had been completely walled in. You could no longer walk from the bowling alley to the mall, and that&#039;s exactly where the shop used to exist. Anyone going there today would never know that an amazing little coin shop had once existed there. It was a sad trip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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