luck is opportunity meets preparation
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:43 amWalked into the bank yesterday, and I being next in line, noticed a teller flag down a customer, who met the teller at the end of the teller "bar". The teller handed the customer a bag of coins... I immediately notice large coins in the bag. The teller and him talked quietly, as he examined the coins. From my distance, it looked like around $50 face of different coins, and when the customer was done looking at the coins, gave the bag back to the teller.
When the customer left, I was completing my transaction at the same time the "line" was lessening. I stepped to the teller and asked her what she was doing with the coins, and went into a story about how her mother left her a bunch of coins, and she had been checking around to see what they were worth. I told her I knew a little about coins, but if there was something in there decent, I was ready to buy. To my surprise, she handed me the bag and let me go through it in the middle of a friday afternoon rush shift, while I held up the line I sorted a ton of Ike's and post 64 coins, until I got to the meat:
1 1986 Eagle
3 Morgans and Peace (common dates)
2 Halves (pre 64)
1 1965 Half
9 Quarters (pre 64)
1 Slick Morgan (no date)
4 dimes (pre 64)
I quickly did some math in my head and ended throwing out some numbers on each coin... she took notes and said she would call me monday. I left the bank thinking I will never hear from her again. Later last night, she called me and left a vm, to see if I could meet her tonite. I smiled, called her back and asked if the price was right, and she agreed that $230 was great for her.
We did the transaction at a McDonald's at 10:30 pm last night. Price-wise, I felt this was fair for both parties, and my Karma is still clean.....
Oh and it turns out, the fellow who was looking at the coins, was a friend of hers who, "knew" about coins, I did not pry into specifics, but he probably gave her a dollar offer that was clearly less than what I was willing to pay.
When the customer left, I was completing my transaction at the same time the "line" was lessening. I stepped to the teller and asked her what she was doing with the coins, and went into a story about how her mother left her a bunch of coins, and she had been checking around to see what they were worth. I told her I knew a little about coins, but if there was something in there decent, I was ready to buy. To my surprise, she handed me the bag and let me go through it in the middle of a friday afternoon rush shift, while I held up the line I sorted a ton of Ike's and post 64 coins, until I got to the meat:
1 1986 Eagle
3 Morgans and Peace (common dates)
2 Halves (pre 64)
1 1965 Half
9 Quarters (pre 64)
1 Slick Morgan (no date)
4 dimes (pre 64)
I quickly did some math in my head and ended throwing out some numbers on each coin... she took notes and said she would call me monday. I left the bank thinking I will never hear from her again. Later last night, she called me and left a vm, to see if I could meet her tonite. I smiled, called her back and asked if the price was right, and she agreed that $230 was great for her.
We did the transaction at a McDonald's at 10:30 pm last night. Price-wise, I felt this was fair for both parties, and my Karma is still clean.....
Oh and it turns out, the fellow who was looking at the coins, was a friend of hers who, "knew" about coins, I did not pry into specifics, but he probably gave her a dollar offer that was clearly less than what I was willing to pay.
