First Visit To Pawn Shop 1897 Morgan

Thanks guys for the grading. Guess I wasn't toooo far off in my estimation. Guess I coulda picked up more at that price but I only got these two as they're years I didn't have yet. Anything else would just be for re-sale down the road sometime. They did have an 1882 CC sitting off by itself in a mylar for $149. Probably close to AU but at first glance looked like it had probably been cleaned. They also had a junk box full of coppers all for $1 each. Looked to be 100-150 coins in there. Wish I knew something about coppers.

run, do not walk, back there and get the rest with decent rims. flip them for dealer buy price of $25 and use the profits to buy some aus.

large cents?

Always nice, isn't it. I was just at a Chinese restaurant in a city near me in So. Cal, 10.75% sales tax. Can't wait to get outa here

Re taxes....if I buy a coin anywhere in CA it will be taxed unless it's a private transaction of course. One bought off the internet will also be taxed at CA rates if the seller has a physical presence in CA, i.e. Heritage Auctions. They're located out of state but they've also got a presence in CA. Any ebay seller in CA is legally obligated to charge me as a CA resident sales tax. The same seller selling to almost any other state will not charge any tax. Don't think things are going to improve for a long time.

Well given the spending mania of the legislators for the last 30 or so years, and all of these out of control social programs and entitlements due to state employees, (and they are entitled by contract since that's what the state agreed to) the state has dug itself into a hole. In addition, companies have been leaving in droves to avoid some of these high corporate taxes which are not easing up. We can expect more of them to scoot out when the CA cap n trade goes into effect with all its new regs and restrictions making it even more difficult for some of them to compete. These companies which have been lost to other areas have put a big dent in the state's revenues and I can only see it getting worse. What it all adds up to is higher taxes for us peons in an attempt to stop the hemmoraging. Got a ballot initiative coming up in June where the Governor is going to give us the opportunity to vote ourselves even higher taxes.

I don't want to get into a huge political argument, and what I will say will bother a lot of people, but cutting social programs just seems absurd to me in the face of our obscene military spending. Making sure there isn't abuse is fine though, I guess. I think its true about the companies though...but what choice do you have? Ruin your environment or save some businesses? Without a worldwide effort it doesn't matter anyway, get ready for 100 degrees being as common as 94 in NJ in 70 years...