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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4532923, member: 110226"]I remember Manfra, Tordella & Brookes, although I didn't buy any coins from them. All sorts of establishments sold coins back then. In Detroit, Hudson's Department Store in downtown had a coin counter on the mezzanine, right next to the lunch counter. Gimbels also had a coin counter, as I recall. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for coin lists, the first ones that received were from Henry Christensen, Charles Wyatt, Freeman Craig and Karl Stephens. For ancients, it was Victor England (CNG) and Harlan Berk.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as grading is concerned, I think the older establishments and collectors in general had more conservative standards, compared to what we generally have today. It was a different time, slower and more measured in terms of grading and selling coins. Now we have the Wild West of the Internet, where caveat emptor is the rule and not the exception.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4532923, member: 110226"]I remember Manfra, Tordella & Brookes, although I didn't buy any coins from them. All sorts of establishments sold coins back then. In Detroit, Hudson's Department Store in downtown had a coin counter on the mezzanine, right next to the lunch counter. Gimbels also had a coin counter, as I recall. As for coin lists, the first ones that received were from Henry Christensen, Charles Wyatt, Freeman Craig and Karl Stephens. For ancients, it was Victor England (CNG) and Harlan Berk. As far as grading is concerned, I think the older establishments and collectors in general had more conservative standards, compared to what we generally have today. It was a different time, slower and more measured in terms of grading and selling coins. Now we have the Wild West of the Internet, where caveat emptor is the rule and not the exception.[/QUOTE]
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