jewelerdave
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- Aug 29, 2007
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I just follow my nose!...where the silver and gold goes!
Minelab 5000, Goldmaster, and a few others
XRF spectrometer, Common sense.
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Ok, yeah I know I have not posted on here in a long long time...been too darn busy.
So I have been setting up at coin shows to buy silver and gold and sell it too and its been going well.
I had one find that just blew me away a few months ago when it comes to roll hunting.
So I had some lady offer me her Coin Collection, a small number of silver dollars, some 90% and other odd ball coins.
And a roll of Indian head cents, and a roll of old buffalo nickels and V nickels.
so I paid her strong on the silver but didn't really want the other stuff, she wanted to do a one stop deal. Ok Fine, I will buy the cents and nickels at 10 cents each. So $9 later I had them, tossed em aside and didnt look at them for a while, till after the show.
So a few days later I am going though the batch With one of my coin friends who is better than I at grading and recognizing rare stuff. He is going though the silver dollars looking for better dates etc and I decide, why not, go though the nickels.
So the first few are not that great, worn flat, dirty etc, Then I find one that is a 37 that looks ok. I say hey maybe this is worth 5 bucks in this grade. I fliped it over to check for a mint mark and to my shock its a 3 leg...WOW I said, is this what I think it is, handing the coin to my friend. "sure is, thats a $900 coin" NICE I think.
So I start going though the rest and sure enough I find ANOTHER ONE! Then my buddy wants to look at the rest of the roll. Everything else was junk.
So the next show I sold em for $1800. Not a bad turn around for a 10 cent buy. Probably a once in a life time thing too.
Aside from that the Gold Business is Brisk and Well, I have not hunted a coin roll in Months...I have just been buying from the local CRHers here, And its working well.
I do have a nice show of before during and after when it comes to the coining, its the pile of jewelry, then the raw gold bars, then the finished coins.
So I have been setting up at coin shows to buy silver and gold and sell it too and its been going well.
I had one find that just blew me away a few months ago when it comes to roll hunting.
So I had some lady offer me her Coin Collection, a small number of silver dollars, some 90% and other odd ball coins.
And a roll of Indian head cents, and a roll of old buffalo nickels and V nickels.
so I paid her strong on the silver but didn't really want the other stuff, she wanted to do a one stop deal. Ok Fine, I will buy the cents and nickels at 10 cents each. So $9 later I had them, tossed em aside and didnt look at them for a while, till after the show.
So a few days later I am going though the batch With one of my coin friends who is better than I at grading and recognizing rare stuff. He is going though the silver dollars looking for better dates etc and I decide, why not, go though the nickels.
So the first few are not that great, worn flat, dirty etc, Then I find one that is a 37 that looks ok. I say hey maybe this is worth 5 bucks in this grade. I fliped it over to check for a mint mark and to my shock its a 3 leg...WOW I said, is this what I think it is, handing the coin to my friend. "sure is, thats a $900 coin" NICE I think.
So I start going though the rest and sure enough I find ANOTHER ONE! Then my buddy wants to look at the rest of the roll. Everything else was junk.
So the next show I sold em for $1800. Not a bad turn around for a 10 cent buy. Probably a once in a life time thing too.
Aside from that the Gold Business is Brisk and Well, I have not hunted a coin roll in Months...I have just been buying from the local CRHers here, And its working well.
I do have a nice show of before during and after when it comes to the coining, its the pile of jewelry, then the raw gold bars, then the finished coins.
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