Sometimes it's not really about the coin.

They're "old school" show types - slabbed coins but plenty of nice raw stuff across issues, in nice grades. I could have gone nuts on their raw Branch Mint Lincolns, if I'd had the cash.

Those are the types of dealers I was looking for - the ones who were willing to offer Mint State raw type coins - and I was overall kind of disappointed at how rare they were. This is, of course, excluding EAC types like McCawley and Reynolds, who had their typical mouth-watering raw pieces out in full force.

Harris498, you have an email for them? I'd like for them to see this thread, to know that they're being discussed by a satisfied buyer in front of a sizable audience. That, and to understand why that strange guy so badly wanted a beat-up coin.

 

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Hi Dave,

I know what you are saying.

I had a box of coins, given to me from my older brother with some donated from my father when I was around 8-10 years old, and I was obsessed with them and began collecting. I spent a lot of years collecting coins after that, and putting them in that box.

Then one day around the age of 16-17 (when I became interested in many other things), the box suddenly disappeared.

I never found out what happened to it, but all that did was make me think more about appreciating coins as I have gotten older.

It is like the hidden treasure. Why are we so obsessed with hidden treasure? As if my brother is going to call me up one day and say "how much will you pay me for that coin box?"

 

If I got a call like that from my brother I'd go directly to his place, punch him in the face, then take my coins back.

 

Lol! Well I would say I got him back, because I got all of my father's coins in the end (because no one seemed to care about them but me, and that brother lived too far away). However we are a family of 6 kids, and I told them I would split it all evenly (there is a lot of gold and silver) and they just said things like "you deal with them". That almost makes it worse because they just sit.

Dilemma:

1. Divide them up evenly and give them to all brothers and sisters and be done with it?

2. Keep it all, sell what I want, when I want, and don't give a ____ about other family members! (you know, those ones that don't care about coins)

 

These are my favorite kinds of dealers, too! I know one or two that work the local show circuit, and I always make sure to visit their table. No matter what they've brought, they always have something interesting.

I have a similar coin story involving an 1863 IHC that I dug up randomly (without a metal detector) at my grandma's farm house. I miss that coin. I might hunt down one like it in the future.

 

Well that's a different can of worms. I actually inherited a large coin collection last year and not even from a blood relative. It was from my stepdads mom after my stepdads stepdad passed. (Say that 5 times fast) Nobody in my family knew anything about coins so I was the default inheritor. And we're not talking just crap. I felt bad though as the lot in its entirety was worth thousands and almost had to force some cash on my step grandma by selling what I didn't want. Imagine a call one day that you just inherited a huge lot of coins, part hoarder part junk part complete/partially filled albums, from a relative you barely knew. It was a crazy experience

 

I would say I feel sorry for you but it sounds like you will end up doing okay! My wife has the "step" thing going on and we somehow accidentally inherited a lot of junk, but it wasn't coins! Can you say eBay?

You are in the position to do what you wish with the coins and I doubt that any of the other family members would ever care, since they don't know about coins. And you probably never see them?

I have to see my family a lot, and they don't ask about it much but I still feel guilty doing anything with the coins so they just sit here.