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<p>[QUOTE="Andy, post: 72270, member: 645"]Silver surfer I used to have a glow in the dark poster of the silver surfer in my room as a kid in Brooklyn. Didn't know how to swim then but dreamed of surfering the universe.</p><p><br /></p><p>With all the talk about the coin stores, it sounds to me the biggest loss to coin collectors is the ability to walk into mom and pop stores and just talk coins and take ones time with the whole thing. E-bay may be a good way to buy without leaving the house but sometimes it is good to leave the house. When I lived in Manhattan that store thing still kinda existed but with less stores. I used to go into the large and very proper, everyone had white gloves on, coin stores but I didn't feel as comfortable as I did in the small rent controled upper east side shop with the coins in the window and the overweight guy with a big mouth filled with a sandwich and words that one actually wanted to listen to. Now I know that stores are still out there but not like it used to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 72270, member: 645"]Silver surfer I used to have a glow in the dark poster of the silver surfer in my room as a kid in Brooklyn. Didn't know how to swim then but dreamed of surfering the universe. With all the talk about the coin stores, it sounds to me the biggest loss to coin collectors is the ability to walk into mom and pop stores and just talk coins and take ones time with the whole thing. E-bay may be a good way to buy without leaving the house but sometimes it is good to leave the house. When I lived in Manhattan that store thing still kinda existed but with less stores. I used to go into the large and very proper, everyone had white gloves on, coin stores but I didn't feel as comfortable as I did in the small rent controled upper east side shop with the coins in the window and the overweight guy with a big mouth filled with a sandwich and words that one actually wanted to listen to. Now I know that stores are still out there but not like it used to be.[/QUOTE]
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