I Finally Found Someone Selling Coins On Craigslist

This is typical. Most people browsing Craigslist are "armchair collectors" who don't really know anything about values but will buy anything described as "old" or "antique" without regard to any real authority to gauge by. You often see them at garage sales marching around with their dog-eared copies of Warman's Antiques Guide, squinting at the pictures within and comparing them to items that "look almost like" the pictures.

Of course, some have identified these people as the kind that will buy anything from a vaguely worded ad at Craigslist or kijiji or Buy and Sell. One of my favorites is this guy here in the Osborne Village area of Winnipeg who puts ads along the lines of this:

http://www.buysell.com/root/detail/..._stamps.aspx

or this:

http://www.buysell.com/root/detail/..._Cuba_6.aspx

or this:

http://www.buysell.com/root/detail/...cate_of.aspx

or even this:

http://www.buysell.com/root/detail/...ed_bags.aspx

Since they list their phone numbers, I urge everyone here to step right up and buy them!

LATE ADDITION: Check this out!

http://www.buysell.com/root/detail/...anadian.aspx

I check the Craigslist collectibles area all the time for Madison, and any city within 100 miles. I try to use many different keywords to help with the search:

coin
coins (for some reason, this produces different results)
silver
gold
cent/penny/pennies
nickel/nickle
quarter
half/halves

Most stuff on there is overpriced, but someday there will be a good find. You just have to keep looking.

I have had good luck by posting a want ad on there though, with somewhere around 30 deals done in 15 months.