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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1731048, member: 19463"]This might be a place to ask if there is a place for local shops in the ancient business.  These are, to use Ripley's term, OK coins.  No full service ancient dealer would be interested in buying them except as a favor or to encourage you to bring in the rest of grandpa's collection.  I walk in and out of shops whenever I can and seeing a dish on the counter with these coins might make me stop in again just because it shows that the shop owner recognizes that there were coins before Lincoln cents.  Of course I find it interesting that these walk into an Indianapolis shop.  In the 60's, I used to love to get a chance to go to Indianapolis and visit 3-4 stores downtown (all at least one flight up in older buildings) that sold ancients.  I was from New Castle and there even was a shop there that had a few ancients but nothing nicer than these.  Today I know there are ancients in Anderson but wonder how many other places there are and what treasures lie hidden there.  What happened to all the coins sold by those old dealers back when coin shops were expected to sell ancients and no one had a sign 'We Buy Gold' in the window?[/QUOTE]