Tell us a crazy coin shop story.

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by ldhair, Jul 15, 2026 at 9:17 AM.

  1. ldhair

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    Something that happened or something that walked in the door while you were there.
     
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  3. Randy Abercrombie

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    Years ago a friend of mine's father had passed. My friend called me because his dad was a coin collector and asked me to help him figure out what he had. I gladly obliged figuring I would be handed a sock drawer of old silver dollars and halves and such. Well, I was stunned when I got there and my buddy lead me into a walk in closet that had a human sized safe absolutely stuffed with hundreds of rolls of Walkers, stacks and stacks of mint stuff out on the closet shelves. It was so overwhelming. I did as I was asked and spent four days inventorying for him.

    I had already called my coin shop buddy who wanted to buy the lot sight unseen, though I had yet to clue him into just how massive this collection was. So the Saturday afternoon came that we had agreed to drive to his shop. My truck was full and my buddy's truck was a third full. My truck looked like one of those "nose up in the air" trucks that you see these days.... We pulled up to my friends coin shop front door and he walked out. His jaw dropped. He immediately walked in, turned on the "Closed" sign and asked me to come around to his back door with those two truckloads of coins.

    Not all that crazy of a story I suppose, but I always thought it was funny that I was the reason a coin shop closed on a Saturday afternoon.
     

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