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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4531967, member: 110350&quot;]I remember the coin shops in London with great fondness from my trips there in 1986 and 2002, especially because I primarily collected British coins and historical medals back then.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad to hear that some still exist.&nbsp; In 1986, I spent most of one afternoon parked on a chair at Seaby&#039;s, looking at tray after tray of British gold cons and silver crowns, and went to at least half a dozen other places.&nbsp; In 2002, I was with my then 12-year-old son, who was somewhat less tolerant of my spending time looking at coins than the person I traveled with in 1986, before I was married.&nbsp; However, my son did love museums and ancient art (as he does still); I believe we spent two entire days and part of a third at the British Museum, out of our eight days in London, and I deliberately chose a hotel a few blocks from the Museum so we could walk there in a few minutes.&nbsp; There was a large coins and antiquities store called Coincraft that we did visit that was directly across from the museum. It catered to the tourist trade but still had some very interesting stock.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember if I bought any coins, but I did buy this Roman oil lamp:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1122436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In New York City, at least in Manhattan, I don&#039;t think there are many old-fashioned small coin stores left.&nbsp; What you&#039;ll find a lot of instead are the diamond and jewelry and watch stores that have the &quot;We Buy Gold&quot; signs, and have a few trays of old coins as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there are the old coin stores, some of which have been around forever, that now devote a substantial part of their space to other &quot;hobby&quot; items -- baseball cards, autographs, etc. -- but still also have coins.&nbsp; An example is this place, which I remember going to as long ago as the early 1980s:</p><p><a href="https://www.brigandicoin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.brigandicoin.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.brigandicoin.com/</a>.&nbsp; Note that coins are not among their most prominently featured items.&nbsp; And if you go to the menu and click on Ancient Coins, you&#039;ll see this message: &quot;Sorry, there are no products in this collection.&quot; Although when I was last in their neighborhood and stopped by, they still had some trays of ancient coins out.&nbsp; All slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This place is still around, too, and is the closest thing I know of in NYC to an old-fashioned coin shop; I spent many hours there years ago:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.pauljbosco.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pauljbosco.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pauljbosco.com/</a>.&nbsp; Note that the proprietor doesn&#039;t always keep things exactly current on his website, and that you can&#039;t actually buy anything directly from the website.&nbsp; I talked to him a bit in January at the NYINC, where he had a table.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then you have the high-end places like Stack&#039;s Bowers, which still has a street-level storefront where you can go in and look at what they have in their display cases.&nbsp; Including one case with unslabbed ancients![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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