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Today I was at the coin shop picking up Buffalo nickels and German Notgeld when a young kid about my age came in. He had an odd assortment of jewelry like pearls, necklaces, and rings. He was having them appraised by the gentleman behind the counter when things went south. A woman came flying in the store and started snatching everything back from the clerk.  She went on and on about how they were hers and that she had no idea what was going on and why her boy had brought them in. She was extremely upset. She demanded to know if they had exchanged money and if they still had anything of hers. They said no. Before they left I heard, her reprimanding the kid with many harsh words. He was embarrassed and telling her to wait until they got outside to talk about it and not in front of everyone. I was like  , and so were the guys behind the counter. After the two left I asked them if anything like that had ever happened there before. Not in 30 years the said! They decided to ban the guy from ever entering the store again. We are assuming he was robbing his mom and selling her things to get money for drugs so he could get high.  It is horrible what drugs turn people into. The thing is, they said the kid had been in there before and had sold stuff to them. I am hoping that it was not the same kind of stuff that he had today, but I doubt it. It's too bad...   On a lighter note, I picked up 13 hole fillers for my Buffalo nickel album and 10 different Notgeld notes.  |
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United States
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Quite a story. And quite an assumption too.
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Yes it is quite an assumption, but he had on a hoodie from a nearby high school. This particular school is located in a tough town in an even tougher neighborhood. He smelled like smoke and his eyes were bloodshot. I hope whatever is going on gets better.
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Wow! I can only imagine the fate he met at home. Quote:On a lighter note, I picked up 13 hole fillers for my Buffalo nickel album and 10 different Notgeld notes. Very nice!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I thought German Notgeld was the name of the kid that came in!  I thought whoa, that's not too good to be posting stuff about somebody and disclosing the name. So I gave it a Google and lo and behold, it appears that you collect a type of German stamp known as "Notgeld". Well, ya learn something new everyday. Doh!  |
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Sounds like yet another future train wreck for our society. Great.
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Well that really stinks. Especially since I'm 16 and it seems like my age group gets in to trouble more than others and therefore I am sometimes suspected. I completely agree with you he was probably getting drug money, but I was once accused of stealing from a coin shop in KS, and needless to say I never went back. But he had had teens steal stuff a few years back so I understood.
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it appears that you collect a type of German stamp known as "Notgeld".
Well, ya learn something new everyday. Notgeld is emergency money and it comes as both paper money and coins. it can also be in some more exotic forms such as porcelain, leather, cardboard, encased postage, even coal. It comes as either, state, municipal, business, or private issues. I collect the metal state and municipal coins and I have over 2000 different types. The paper notgeld is way more diverse. The largest collections I have heard of had over 200,000 different notes. |
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My local shop will not buy anything from you if they think you are under 21 simply to prevent situations such as this one. It also helps that a retired St Louis police detective works there part time as well  Of course, there are a few YNs that have an established relationship but that is the exception and not the rule. |
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Posted 11/10/2011 6:00 pm
