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Silverhawk - your story makes it sound like you bought the whole lot for very, very little.
I guess...I am perplexed. How do you make an offer on items the value is not known?
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" A freakin 1931S graded high, wow about a 3 to 4 hundred dollar penny turns out I learn later" It would have to be ms64 or higher. |
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Key dates coin slip through the cracks from time to time An area dealer used to pay Three Cents per for foreign. When he finally hired someone to look through them, they found a set of Russian platinum coins from the 1800s. |
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Hawk-
Those orange fingers will slough off in a week or two.
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Aloco I can't really get in too specifics about our buy program or numbers, but it is all divided into different categories. The three pieces that she did not get the best offer on, was the 1917 quarter and the two cap an bust halves, since I had them listed in wrong category. If I had put those pieces in the proper section of our program, it would have allowed me to offer her more. Chalk that up to my greenhorn self, and no one to help me when the deal was going down...
Again, she had a family situation and she walked with what she said was a 125 more then what she thought she was gonna get, so all party's were happy in the end. Did she get full 100% value for her stuff, no as we would have no way to make money otherwise. But I can sleep real good at night, honestly knowing there is not another place in town that would have even offered here close to what we did for it all, and that is why she is a REGULAR, and we offer her a higher percentage then most for that fact, as I did on that deal as well on all of her other items....
We buy gold an Pawn shops I can honestly say, will offer her way less (like starting at 25% of total item value), so again best option in town, short of her starting her own business an trying to get beyond spot for it all....
I just bought an amazing Sterling silverware set Gotham seems like is the company. Not antique, but real nice an solid. He walked with some good cash, and said he was real happy, as our offer was 100 BUCKS MORE then any other offer he received....
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02/18/2012 1:16 pm
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I was way distracted as well as my finger tips were bubbling today with nitric acid. I kid you not I look like I have been smokin filter-less pal mas for 50 years, and I don't even smoke. Carrot sticks, I kid you not are my finger tips You have to protect yourself, Hawk. You can get a box of nitrile or latex gloves for cheap. Wear them when working with acids. Your fingers will thank you for it. Remember, you could be doing this for a LONG time, so not allowing acids to consume your flesh is a GOOD idea!  |
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That may be a good idea Ed    , as if I don't come up with a better plan soon I may not have any prints left. And since I may be named Kevin, but not the Kevin Spacey from his character in Seven, so no need to burn off the prints, lol.... Are you kiddin me, carrot sticks.....   You may notice that little splice like split on the second picture thumb, it is like it got in there, or for all I know split it, but I think I barely cut myself grasping a small piece of jewelry before scratching it on the stone.... Edited by Silverhawk74
02/18/2012 7:34 pm
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Also I am left handed, so you can see in picture number one that the ol North paw (right hand) is taking a beating....
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Silverhawk74, Sounds like any money you get from the job, goes back to the owner. You get an advance education in the ways of bullion, get paid for it. And you use the funds from your hourly wage to build your stash. Sounds to me you can't go wrong in your new vocation. I am truly jealous. I'd give anything for a part-time gig like that.  |
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Well I don't know what section of the country you live Rasta, but good chance we have a store opening up near you that you could apply at and I would put in a good word for you or anyone here that ever wanted to apply, as we need good people with good coin knowledge to fill those new stores, which are far an few anymore in my estimation....
And if not the company I work for, good chance you have a store close by that could use some part time help. I kind of got my foot in the door by buying a half a dozen different times, an eagle or two each time, and sold some stuff there as well, a few coins in winter, and just spotted sign in the window an applied one day while buying a proof eagle. I had to wait for a bout an hour to talk to the manger who was doing a long evaluation of many coins, but it was worth the wait in the end I now figure for sure, great learning experience so far.....
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This reminds me of that book "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair. These guys working in the stockyards were using acid to get the wool off of the sheep that they were processing. A lot of them had nubs for fingers, because over the years, the acid just melted their fingers right off.
Be careful, Hawk. If you're going to do this every day your fingers won't be long enough to wrap around your goalie stick!
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Yeah, the same thing happens to the workers who process pineapples. With them, there is an enzyme in the pineapple juice that attacks skin. Quite a few of them have no identifiable finger prints. All they have is an outline of their fingers with a smudged area inside the outline. Pineapple juice is one thing, though. Nitric acid is a completely different animal... and a much more dangerous one at that. Don't want the people in Hawk's area to say, "Yeah, I knew that guy. He went away"... as in dissolved. |
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Nitric is also good to keep off your clothes, unless you're into the holed look.
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"Yeah, I knew that guy. He went away"... as in dissolved. Wicked witch of coin appraisals, melting in a vat of nitric acid. If you eat too much pineapples your throat will become inflamed because of the enzymes. That's why I can only stomach grilled pineapples (mmmm.... grilled pineapples in honey and red wine...). The heat denatures the enzymes and renders them inert. Heat nitric acid up and you'll melt your eyes with the fumes. |
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Nitric is also good to keep off your clothes, unless you're into the holed look. Exactly right. Fredd. Ditto for car mechanics and the H2SO4 in car batteries. Quote:
Wicked witch of coin appraisals, melting in a vat of nitric acid. Oh, man! That would be one ugly, nasty, and excruciating way to go! Quote:
The heat denatures the enzymes and renders them inert. Indeed so. Enzymes are proteins that have a very characteristic shape. Their component atoms and their shape combine to create their chemical activity. Bend them via heating and they no longer have the shape they need to be active. Quote:
Heat nitric acid up and you'll melt your eyes with the fumes. Most of the mineral acids give off toxic and corrosive fumes when heated. Perchloric acid, HClO4, is especially bad for that. |
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