Earlier today, I went to the pawn shop I was at last month with the $50 priced 1943 quarter. For those who don't remember or didn't see the topic, it's here:
https://goccf.com/t/98853I noticed that same
Washington quarter, but this time they changed the price. They were selling it at $25, and they had a
Franklin half dollar priced at $50. I'm guessing they thought "Hey since 50 cents is twice as much as 25 cents, let's sell it for twice that much. I happened to have a silver quarter on me, and I asked her how much she would buy it for. She actually asked me, "Is it silver?" I told her yes, and after she examined it, she said they'd pay $10. I wasn't really going to sell the coin however. I just wanted to test the store to see how much they would pay for junk silver. But yeah, they were smart to lower the price of that quarter, but they didn't lower the price enough. One can hope that nobody is still foolish enough to buy it.
Later in the day, I went to a pawn shop I had never been to before to look at any junk silver coins. There weren't very many except for a 1962
Franklin half and 3 silver dimes (2 Mercury's and 1 Roosevelt). The silver dimes were priced at $6.75, but the lady said she would sell them to me for $6.00 even. She told some guy to ring me up and charge me $6, but he accidentally charged me the $6.75 + 6% tax which came out to $7.16, when it should've been $6.36. I didn't notice this until I had driven about two blocks away, so I returned, and explained my situation. The guy apologized and asked if he could refund my overcharged money (80 cents) in cash. I said yes, and he actually gave me a dollar. That means I technically paid $6.16 and an average of $2.05 for each dime!
Posted 10/29/2011 8:13 pm
