Hey young man, enjoyed the video. Just so you know, the Oldsmar Flea Market has always been the Oldsmar Flea Market. The Wagon Wheel is in Pinellas Park.
I'm learning about this topic. Far from being any type of expert. But, from what I know: Not counting the small ingots, the coins are about 3.21 ounces of silver ($1.40 of silver, any demoniation, = one ounce). Multiply that times the current price of silver and that should tell how good of a deal you have over spot. Also, one must consider the purity of the coins.
I keep the same small scale you have, a rare earth magnet, and the trusty “ping” test 😁 Between these three I feel its enough info to make good buying decisions on
Sadly it seems common that ‘coin dealers’ assume everyone is an idiot. One guy tried to tell me that a bi-date double head penny was a mint error. This is why I prefer private buys or legit folks like Coin Guy. Nice score btw.
I get that age thing. First few times in my LCS I was basically ignored until I left the silver section and started looking at the gold and counting cash.
Thanks for the video! Sometimes you get a bargain price when buying constitutional silver coins at a flea market, antique show or collectible show if you have a motivated seller. Congrats!
My wife Loves going to Estate sales. She came home from one last year and the lady, who had passed, was a jewelry maker. My wife dug around in a dresser in the garage and found a bunch of semi-precious stones, gold chains, bezels, and a 9oz bag labeled "AU Casting Grains", she paid 10 bucks total for the mixed bag of stuff. The 9oz bag caught my attention right away, so the next day I took it to a friends pawn shop and had him run a few tests on the "Casting Grains" for me, they came in at about 14 carat, so it equaled about 6 troy oz. of PURE GOLD ! ! ! That's My Girl ! ! !
That's what I said when my pawn shop buddy told me it was the real deal. He recognized the label as a famous lapidary and jewelry making supply company. He said it was probably from the late '60's when gold was CHEAP. People would buy the 14K casting grains to melt down and cast bracelets, bezels, etc. for jewelry.
Coinflation is a great site, thanks for the heads up! Sadly,They don't sell coins with free shipping or at all.....Coinage, right now is running about 13-14 times face which is just a bit over coinflation at about 12.2 times face for "junk"...I like to say "constitutional" instead of junk...it just sounds better...You look at a GC 1955 Franklin Half they're beautiful. I like the coins too much to EVER call them junk...
My local coin shop more less bullion dealer would sell the Peace Dollars at $15 each and the other junk siliver at $12.10 per face dollar looking at what they were selling it for last Saturday. It's $48.15 not adding in the tiny bars. We are the exact same age, we are young compare to many other stackers coin collectors. The younger generation is more in to tech. I just took advantage of Ebays 10 percent in Ebay bucks then paid with a credit card that's two percent cash back. Most listings had the 10% but not all, I guess its all how they listed it.
Years ago (1966) when I was stationed in Saigon (Viet Nam) I chanced upon a trade dollar, which I'd never heard of at the time, and the guy was asking the equivalent of $12.00 for it. After looking it up in the local library, I learned about trade dollars. I purchased it after talking him down to about $8.00, and he threw in 2 more for $8.00 each (which turned out to be counterfeit) but I didn't know about the "ping test" at the time. All 3 were 1876-S, in near uncirculated condition. The 2 I thought were counterfeit I later traded and gave my opinion of them when I traded. The onlyt one which passed the ping test was certified by the ANACS, so I guess I did good.
@@Spegtacular it's just the lighting on your camera that makes it look like silver plated brass. But the Precious Metal Verifier is indisputable. I just actually came across about 3000 wheat cents from a private hoard. Wasn't at a flea market, but from a local craigslister that I've dealt with before. He's cleaning out his dad's collection and found some more stuff. I'm stull going through them but a ton of early S mints. Looking for that 09S VDB!!
You done good SpegTacular...lol... Looks like your in Fla. somewhere..? I have family in south fla., when i visit , there is a flea market i go to. They had one guy selling PM's , he was a little shady, tried to get a big mark up over spot. He came around, when he realized i wasn't a " greenhorn", new at the game, and we came to an agreement...Always gotta be on your toes...!
Speg I have been watching your videos for a while. I can't tell you how many coin shops around me have older guys who are so bitter and angry as soon as I walk in the door. I also will tell ya that they have no way to verify their silver. I had one guy look at me like I had 3 heads when I told him people fake morgans ALOT, he actually said "Oh come on who would fake a morgan?
Speg they are Unsearched by the shop. If they come in from bags and lose and not already flipped etc. they are are pretty big shop and don't have the time to search them. Well and if they do search them then they don't do a very good job because I have found some marvelous dates and coins. Have also purchased lots from them right as soon as they came threw the counter. But yes indeed they all have been searched. You prob have better luck at finding a SVDB from a bank box but semi keys and BU and errors find lots pre 30s typically is about 250-500 coins all really depends. Some times a bag will have nothing then some are monster bags just depends.
Tell us what it is that attracts you to coin collecting. Is it just holding a piece of history in your hands? I'm not a coin collector but I was just wondering. Greetings from Arizona.
Apparently I made a mistake. This is the Oldsmar flea market. Truth be told, I don’t believe I’ve been to the Wagon Wheel! It’s funny because there’s wheels all over the Oldsmar which would make a flea market novice such as myself believe I’ve arrived at the Wagon Wheel lol
I get the pain of people not taking young numismatics seriously. One guy wouldn’t let me into his tent at a flea market cause I was “too young”, probably like 17-18 at the time
I really can't stand dealing with flea market people but looks like you did pretty good for yourself this time around. The girls and me have a little something we are sending you soon keep your eyes on the mail.
New SUBSCRIBER here I seen pawn shop on TV were rick bought a 1922 half dollar for 80 grand wow .the seller only wanted 20 grand for it but they had a appraiser look at it and said its worth 100 grand
The 1922 High Relief Peace dollar? That would be an amazing coin to own. 1922 peace dollars are one of the most common, but only a few high relief were made that year.
@@Spegtacular question I want to start buying silver what's best coins are bars long term maybe to hold on as part of my retirement if not to give to my 10 year old daughter??
Question: Does a 90% silver coin and a clad (91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel) coin register the same on a sigma machine ? I read somewhere that it does. Just asking.
There’s coins that are not silver that will show to be under certain settings. You’ll purposely fool the machine doing that. The machine isn’t for testing what the metal content is but if the metal is what it is advertised to be. So since you know it’s a copper coin, you’re not needing to check to see if it’s silver If that makes sense. I should do a video on this actually ;)
I don't buy from flea markets anymore last time I was at the coin booth acted like I was not there but I am only 34 years old not 70+ and don't have any money I guess! went down the road to my LCS and spent $300 his loss.
