jerseyben
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This weekend is one that that I wish all weekends would model.
Friday: Met up with a (rare) craigslist lead because he advertised bulk wheaties at market value. I told him I collect large cents so he showed up with an entire album of them plus a few extras. We negotiated on the entire lot of 65 coins for $450. Probably one of my best purchases all year!
My dad showed up later in the evening for a family dinner. He dropped off his lifetime Bonsai collection for me to shelter for the winter. He brought me some goodies! He just sold his antebellum bed & breakfast in NC. In clearing stuff out, he brought me 3 boxes of dishes, glass, and silverware. He also brought me scrap wire, brass, and copper! My dad is awesome!
Saturday: Showed up at an advertised garage sale in the freezing cold (I was the first customer). I spied a small box of trinkets and coins. He wanted $10, pass. I asked if he had any more coins and that sparked a 30 minute encounter. He started pulling out coins all over the place. Most were those crap collector series or bulk foreign coins. I was picking out 1 or 2 coins here and there. In the end, I ended up buying a handful of coins and a small box of jewelry.
The scores:
-65 large cents with 3 half cents and the whitman album, almost every date is present from 1800-1857 minus 1 or 2 coins but plus a few extras like 1798. 40% are culls or damaged in some way beyond "circulation wear" - $450
-empire sterling weighted compote (probably only worth scrap as it has some damage) - free
-entire set of wm rogers plated presidential spoons - free
-dennis the menace spoon - free
-wallace sterling tea spoon - free
-(2) .800 silver spoons with hallmarked bowls - free
-peru souvenir spoon marked 925 - free
-R Hascy coin silver tea spoon, my favorite, appears to be from 1840s handmade by an American silversmith - free
-a few bags of scrap metal wire, copper, brass - free
-big stack of pewter plates - free
-2 more boxes of glass and dishes (to be searched, will post results later) - free
-(11) silver coins including 1921 walker (fake!), barber half, 2 canadian 50 cent pieces, etc - $45 (probably paid too much considering the walker is a fake)
-2000 cheerios penny in original packaging - $5
-small box of men's jewelry, this had the gold filled NRA pin that I sold with the other NRA stuff in 5 minutes yesterday, also included 2 earrings that I believe to be k gold 1.4 grams, also a large gold filled bracelet - $3
Friday: Met up with a (rare) craigslist lead because he advertised bulk wheaties at market value. I told him I collect large cents so he showed up with an entire album of them plus a few extras. We negotiated on the entire lot of 65 coins for $450. Probably one of my best purchases all year!
My dad showed up later in the evening for a family dinner. He dropped off his lifetime Bonsai collection for me to shelter for the winter. He brought me some goodies! He just sold his antebellum bed & breakfast in NC. In clearing stuff out, he brought me 3 boxes of dishes, glass, and silverware. He also brought me scrap wire, brass, and copper! My dad is awesome!
Saturday: Showed up at an advertised garage sale in the freezing cold (I was the first customer). I spied a small box of trinkets and coins. He wanted $10, pass. I asked if he had any more coins and that sparked a 30 minute encounter. He started pulling out coins all over the place. Most were those crap collector series or bulk foreign coins. I was picking out 1 or 2 coins here and there. In the end, I ended up buying a handful of coins and a small box of jewelry.
The scores:
-65 large cents with 3 half cents and the whitman album, almost every date is present from 1800-1857 minus 1 or 2 coins but plus a few extras like 1798. 40% are culls or damaged in some way beyond "circulation wear" - $450
-empire sterling weighted compote (probably only worth scrap as it has some damage) - free
-entire set of wm rogers plated presidential spoons - free
-dennis the menace spoon - free
-wallace sterling tea spoon - free
-(2) .800 silver spoons with hallmarked bowls - free
-peru souvenir spoon marked 925 - free
-R Hascy coin silver tea spoon, my favorite, appears to be from 1840s handmade by an American silversmith - free
-a few bags of scrap metal wire, copper, brass - free
-big stack of pewter plates - free
-2 more boxes of glass and dishes (to be searched, will post results later) - free
-(11) silver coins including 1921 walker (fake!), barber half, 2 canadian 50 cent pieces, etc - $45 (probably paid too much considering the walker is a fake)
-2000 cheerios penny in original packaging - $5
-small box of men's jewelry, this had the gold filled NRA pin that I sold with the other NRA stuff in 5 minutes yesterday, also included 2 earrings that I believe to be k gold 1.4 grams, also a large gold filled bracelet - $3
