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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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If you happen to be at a garage sale, do not go there with the intention of looking for coins. Look for ANY sort of bargain.
Coinwise, keep your mind open to the whole of numismatics, not what is just compliant with your specialist collecting interests. Bargains will be much more frequently happenstance if you do.
IF you do find something interesting, make sure that you buy it at a bargain price. Quite often, the sellers have a misunderstood and over inflated idea of what a numismatic item may be worth.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The odds of getting anything good at any particular garage sale are very low, so you have to go to a lot. One local person I know has a small business of buying and selling virtually everything. He gets silver and gold from time to time at absurdly low prices, but he goes to hundreds of sales on an annual basis.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have better luck at finding bargains on ebay than garage sales, given that ebay can be searched at home at any time of the day. |
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 Canada
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I once hit a huge score at a farm garage estate sale.. while doing fieldwork near Fort Vermillion in northern Alberta. I bought a old 2 lbs coffee can full of NFLD 5c silver coins for basically melt. There was everything in there from both 1873 types to a 1946c in EF....
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
617 Posts |
two bucks? what a great find .
lucky you
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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The odds of getting anything good at any particular garage sale are very low, so you have to go to a lot. One local person I know has a small business of buying and selling virtually everything. He gets silver and gold from time to time at absurdly low prices, but he goes to hundreds of sales on an annual basis i think the odds are against some people more than others, last year my buddy tried to find silver at the end of the year he showed me his pile in the palm of his hand, I needed a bag for mine  , but its true you need to hit alot of sales, when garage sales are in full swing I hit about 120 or more every Saturday. I have a few lbs that I paid next to nothing for but I especially like to find old hallmarked silver because I like to find out who made it ,where and when. the hallmak shown is from 1926. i do well finding gold too, I even found a gold tooth that my dentist confirmed as 14k. i have even found coins at under face, the 68 dollar was 50 cents and the 67,s were on the 25c table    |
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United States
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Those are some great garage sale finds!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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You straight robbed the guy.
Re: gold teeth: those things are nasty. This week I had to take out rotten leftover teeth from 3 gold caps. So nasty, they looked like walnuts.
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New Member
United States
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nice! didn't know that sometimes it's better going to garage sales than looking for bargains on ebay |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hi gidjit
with all due respect
would you have anymore
information inre photo 5
i have forgotten
Hallmarks
tia
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New Member
Canada
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Every time I hit a garage sale it is baby clothes, shoes & box store junk.
Nice score!
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11/04/2016 9:54 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I picked up a Toronto maple leafs coin set at face value at a garage sale once. And a whole bunch of vinyl records.
You will find a lot more 1970-80's Rock LPs than you will coins. That's a fact.
Edited by Redzapsid
11/04/2016 10:35 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I need to put garage sales on of places to go ... nice pickups.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1571 Posts |
Many times, when I go to garage sales, I find garage sale type junk. Most people put out kids clothes and toys, big items like furniture, and other nic-nacks. The only times I've found coins and records is by asking the seller if they have any. Most people don't think of putting coins out. With that being said, I've had a few garage sales and put out large cents, and other pre-1950 coins and they sell very quickly. The large cents can be picked up for under $1 at most coin shops but sell easily for $5 each at garage sales, even to people that don't collect coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Wow!
What a great deal!!
The only times I have seen coins at garage sales, they were asking at least double book value - kinda like seeing coins at most "antique" shops - they seem to prey upon ingnorant people with low resistance to impulse buying.
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11/24/2016 3:35 pm
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