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Thrift shop find

Postby cwgii » Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:27 pm

Yesterday while in town I stopped at a new thrift store.$11 for an Ellis island round proof
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby coppernickel » Sat Aug 29, 2020 9:04 pm

:clap: Excellent find. :thumbup:
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Changechecker » Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:03 pm

Pays to shop local. Nice.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Thogey » Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:36 am

Bully!
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Saabman » Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:53 am

Score!!! WTG!!
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby cwgii » Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:41 pm

Yes I liked that find. Even better 2 weeks ago I paid 3 for a 8 inch bowl by Rogers. Marked....sterling
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby pennypicker » Tue Sep 01, 2020 2:21 pm

cwgii wrote:Yes I liked that find. Even better 2 weeks ago I paid 3 for a 8 inch bowl by Rogers. Marked....sterling

Now that's a find! :o
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby stas3000 » Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:36 pm

Wow, impressive! Amazing finds, cwgii! And there I thought a 1991 Mt Rushmore $1 proof for $20 was a really good find the other day. :)
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby cwgii » Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:05 pm

pennypicker wrote:
cwgii wrote:Yes I liked that find. Even better 2 weeks ago I paid 3 for a 8 inch bowl by Rogers. Marked....sterling

Now that's a find! :o

In all my life of thrifting this is the first time I have ever seen a sterling piece
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby TXSTARFIRE » Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:32 pm

I used to look all the time for sterling and never found anything. I guess I should keep looking.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Changechecker » Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:23 pm

Awesome finds. Pays to pay attention to details.
Just stopped at an antique mall. Hundreds of cases filled with everything under the sun.
At least a dozen or more cases with coins. Cherry picked two nice Quarters. 1900 Barber $6.00 and a 1892 Barber
$4.00.
Both hole fillers and good to VG condition.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby cwgii » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:49 pm

TXSTARFIRE wrote:I used to look all the time for sterling and never found anything. I guess I should keep looking.

Very first for me..but do know I missed one before I learned about the lion stamp
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby cwgii » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:52 pm

Changechecker wrote:Awesome finds. Pays to pay attention to details.
Just stopped at an antique mall. Hundreds of cases filled with everything under the sun.
At least a dozen or more cases with coins. Cherry picked two nice Quarters. 1900 Barber $6.00 and a 1892 Barber
$4.00.
Both hole fillers and good to VG condition.


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In hind sight the brown Ike's at 10 might have been good.ended up with, a pocket knife.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Changechecker » Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:03 pm

Decided to stretch my legs today and took a ride back to the antique mall. Worth the trip. Found a silver dime for $1.50, eight walking liberty halls for $70.00, eight Kennedy for $70.00 and a few good liberty quarters at $5.00 each.
Cashing out i asked if there were any discounts and she had a 20% off coupon for the whole order. I was pleasantly surprised. Nothing like silver below spot.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Cu Penny Hoarder » Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:33 pm

Changechecker wrote:Decided to stretch my legs today and took a ride back to the antique mall. Worth the trip. Found a silver dime for $1.50, eight walking liberty halls for $70.00, eight Kennedy for $70.00 and a few good liberty quarters at $5.00 each.
Cashing out i asked if there were any discounts and she had a 20% off coupon for the whole order. I was pleasantly surprised. Nothing like silver below spot.


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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Changechecker » Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:46 pm

I have no problem with this seller. He has a bunch of cases in this mall and others at another mall as well. I received an email alert that this weekend they are offering another 20% off deal and a "draw a ball" at the check out for an additional 5% to 20% more discount on top of the initial 20% promotion. I will be spreading some Christmas green this weekend if I find more deals.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Changechecker » Sat Dec 12, 2020 5:52 pm

Decided to go to the antique mall today (first day of the Christmas ball). Good thing as I saw several collectors there that I knew. Count myself lucky as I scored 23 nice franklin halves and a 90% Kennedy as well as 10 Kennedy 40%. All in price after discounts and tax was $22.62 per ounce. Glad I went.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby Aghead » Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:10 pm

In an antique high end furniture store. They had some old jewelry, I asked about coins,,, he brought out some old stuff I didn't want. He had a carded little piece of metal.
It was hand written 1 grain palladium. I asked him how much? He said just take it. I gave him a little money ( a dollar + change in my pocket) because we didn't know value.
This was nearly 10 yrs back.
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Re: Thrift shop find

Postby 68Camaro » Fri Sep 10, 2021 7:17 am

Aghead wrote:In an antique high end furniture store. They had some old jewelry, I asked about coins,,, he brought out some old stuff I didn't want. He had a carded little piece of metal.
It was hand written 1 grain palladium. I asked him how much? He said just take it. I gave him a little money ( a dollar + change in my pocket) because we didn't know value.
This was nearly 10 yrs back.


Interestingly enough, that's about what the going rate for Pd was at that time. About a dollar per grain.
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