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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 1955208, member: 13307&quot;]I have an exciting story from today at my local coin shop.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decide to head to the LCS to poke through their foreign coins.&nbsp; I pick out about $300 worth of foreign silver (bought at melt value,) and while I&#039;m waiting I decide to poke through the non-silver stuff.&nbsp; There is a box that includes Australian non-silver coins...so I open up the Krause manual on my iPad and begin checking dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find a 1946 Penny.&nbsp; I look it up.&nbsp; Eureka!&nbsp; Krause lists this coin with a mintage of 240,000, and a price of $42 in Fine.&nbsp; I think, &quot;Okay, that&#039;s great, I found one!&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>And then I find another one.&nbsp; And another.</p><p><br /></p><p>I start to get suspicious...am I looking at the manual correctly?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Is there a variety or something?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; I verify the date and denomination again.&nbsp; I check on eBay...regularly selling for between $40 and $75.</p><p><br /></p><p>In total, I find TWENTY FOUR of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being an honest person, and also knowing that buying 24 of the same coin would draw suspicion anyway, I ask an employee to check what I am seeing.&nbsp; Then one of the owners.&nbsp; Yep, they are what I think they are...meaning I just found them at least $1k lying around in basically a junk box! </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you&#039;re wondering what&#039;s in it for me: </p><p><br /></p><p>1) It&#039;s really fun to look through coins</p><p>2) When I&#039;m honest about stuff like this, they know I am treating them fairly when I spend 4 hours going through their foreign coins</p><p>3) They asked me to consign them on eBay</p><p><br /></p><p>So, all in all, I had a pretty good day looking through foreign JUNK! <img src="http://www.worldofcoins.eu/Smileys/classic/wink.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.worldofcoins.eu/Smileys/classic/wink.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Isn&#039;t that pretty cool?&nbsp; Anyone else had a recent &quot;find&quot; like that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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