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Message:: [QUOTE="darrowcrowe, post: 1288822, member: 27209"]That is a great story! I got a phone call from a friend who worked in a furniture store in the San Francisco Bay area. He asked if I "still" collected coins. Yes, why? I have a customer in the store whose Dad gave her his coins just before he died. She took the coins to a local coin shop and was offered $5000. She said one of the older books she had just one of the coins was worth $10,000. I told her that I could give some of the coins a quick look and that if she wanted I could give a general value or I could sell for her for a small fee. She said come on by. I brought my younest son to help. Well she had several early Colonial coins....all coipes. But we ended up selling the collection for just over $20,000. While we were looking through the collection she asked what my son collected. He said Buffalo nickels. She had us put all the Buffalos in a pile and as it took three days to go over the coins the pile each night would disappear from the table we were working at in her home. I just felt she was going to keep them. In the end she paid me what I had offered to work for plus she gave my son everyone of the Buffalo nickels that we had put in the piles. Several nice coins were in that group. Sometimes it pays to be honest and to work hard.[/QUOTE]