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Posted 03/19/2011 6:19 pm
Love that story Biggfredd. We have 2 flea markets here. One is huge and very commercialized and the other is, for the most part, a mom and pop type affair which is where I got this coin. Always loads of other off-the-wall things up for sale. Got an old antique mariner's clock there once for $15 which turned out to be worth $250 when I took it in to have it cleaned. I paid $35 for this CC Morgan by the way. He originally wanted more but turned out he wasn't as mercenary as the coin dealers. Another time I got an old 1940's era Grundig tabletop tube radio for $120. The kind the whole family used to sit around listening to before the days of TV. I've been offered quite a bit more for it but I'm hanging on to it. Still works great and I'm a radio man anyway. But the guy with the Morgan used to live in Reno(land of the silver dollars)and says to check back with him as he makes a couple trips back every month or so and gets good deals from people he knows. Maybe he'll show up with an 1895 !
