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<p>[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1011692, member: 25270"]I mostly like the shop I go to but there are a few things I don't like. One is that I feel like they have a lot of coins that they never put on display and you need to know to ask or you'll never see it. I understand they only have limited counter space but there's often things I don't realize I'm looking for until I see it. I also think they save a lot of things for certain customers so it's never really out there. The other thing is that they have two locations of this store about 10 miles apart. I usually go to the main store because they have more selection, but they have more rules too. Like they have bins for things like common date silver Washington quarters, but they won't let you browse, they'll only sell in bulk. That's fine if you're just shopping for bulk silver, but if you want certain dates to complete a set, you're out of luck. So then I go to the other store because although it is smaller and has less selection, they are so much more laid back and it's a different atmosphere. They'll let you look through anything and it just seems more like a neighborhood operation. I wanted to complete a set of Mercury dimes, so I went there and they had this big can of them and they just let me look through it, and starting from having none, I found every coin to complete the set except the 1921 D and the 1916 D and was able to buy them all at once without buying a lot of coins I didn't need, all for the same flat rate (I think it was $1.40 at the time). I appreciate that they made it easy and affordable for me like that. It's almost hard to believe that both shops are owned by the same people because they're so different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 1011692, member: 25270"]I mostly like the shop I go to but there are a few things I don't like. One is that I feel like they have a lot of coins that they never put on display and you need to know to ask or you'll never see it. I understand they only have limited counter space but there's often things I don't realize I'm looking for until I see it. I also think they save a lot of things for certain customers so it's never really out there. The other thing is that they have two locations of this store about 10 miles apart. I usually go to the main store because they have more selection, but they have more rules too. Like they have bins for things like common date silver Washington quarters, but they won't let you browse, they'll only sell in bulk. That's fine if you're just shopping for bulk silver, but if you want certain dates to complete a set, you're out of luck. So then I go to the other store because although it is smaller and has less selection, they are so much more laid back and it's a different atmosphere. They'll let you look through anything and it just seems more like a neighborhood operation. I wanted to complete a set of Mercury dimes, so I went there and they had this big can of them and they just let me look through it, and starting from having none, I found every coin to complete the set except the 1921 D and the 1916 D and was able to buy them all at once without buying a lot of coins I didn't need, all for the same flat rate (I think it was $1.40 at the time). I appreciate that they made it easy and affordable for me like that. It's almost hard to believe that both shops are owned by the same people because they're so different.[/QUOTE]
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