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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 4647585, member: 18157&quot;]Most of the auctions I find on eBay anymore are for fakes, overpriced problem coins, or &quot;unsearched&quot; OBW rolls. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>However, there are deals that can still be found...like finding silver while roll hunting. I&#039;ve made some bad purchases, but I&#039;ve had my share of pleasant surprises, too. Here&#039;s a story about some nice coins I got from an eBay seller in NYC...</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s gotta be about twelve (12) years ago now (perhaps a bit longer) when I bought my first rolls from an eBay seller know as &quot;PopVintageNYC&quot;. PopVintageNYC was a vintage clothing shop in NYC that specialized in real vintage clothing from the &#039;20s to the &#039;70s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until that time, everything they advertised on eBay were clothes (very expensive clothes!), not coins. I later learned that they bought up entire estates to get the clothes for their shop.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is, they bought up some coins in one of the estate sales and sprinkled a few rolls in with the clothes they sold on eBay...that&#039;s when I &quot;discovered&quot; PopVintageNYC. Each roll I bought was was nicer than the last!</p><p><br /></p><p>They were in old plastic tubes (no screw tops). They were sealed with white medical tape and dated 6-9 months after the mintage years. My guess is that someone quite knowledgeable of coins searched many rolls to come up with just one of these rolls...they&#039;re just too good to be true! Every coin is spectacular. MS-65 would be a dog in these rolls. I bought about a dozen rolls from from them, then I screwed up! I&#039;m not 100% sure it was me, but something happened!</p><p><br /></p><p>The prices they were getting for their rolls began climbing so I did something I never do...I called the store directly to see if I could make a direct bulk purchase of whatever they had. I still have the guy&#039;s cell number (Mitch) in my old Razor phone. We spoke a few times and it looked like we were gonna strike a deal, then he leaves a message to say the coins were no longer for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>That was the entirety of the message. I tried calling back, but he never answered. The auctions they had running on eBay were discontinued, also. Then, six months later, their physical NYC store closed, as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea what happened to them or what the story was behind the coins, but they are HANDS DOWN the finest business strike rolls I&#039;ve purchased on eBay. I was hoping someone else on CT might have their own &quot;PopVintageNYC&quot; story...or a similar story where you found hidden treasure on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of the rolls I came across lately that got me thinking of them again...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1148093[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1148094[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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