CoinTalk Member Reports Buying Items From a Case at a Garage Sale
On the CoinTalk forum, a member posting as Kentucky reported buying "some goodies" from a case at a garage sale in the member's area. Another case held "ancient" coins the seller said came out of the ocean, with nothing much identifiable; Kentucky also wrote of dipping the pesos. The thread does not give the date of the posts or the price paid.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We shortened and rewrote the headline, summary and body to match the source, a CoinTalk forum thread. We removed unsupported claims (that the coins were Mexican silver pesos, that a photo of coin cases in the ad prompted the visit, and that the poster shared photos of the coins) as well as an unsupported one-line conclusion and SEO terms about rare finds and coin appraisal, and made clear that the account comes from forum members and that the source does not give the post dates. The previous headline was "Garage Sale Find Includes Mexican Silver Pesos."
This article is based only on posts in a CoinTalk forum thread titled "Garage Sale...". The source does not give the dates of the posts. What follows are members' own accounts and opinions.
A member posting as Kentucky wrote about finding a Craigslist ad for a garage sale in the member's area. The ad's wording did not mention coins, so, Kentucky wrote, "maybe I have a chance."
Another member wrote that, in Kentucky's place, they would have gone to see what was in the wooden, glass-topped case, and possibly bought the whole thing, depending on the price.
Two Cases
Kentucky later reported back. One of the cases held "ancient" coins that the seller said came out of the ocean, with nothing much identifiable. The other had "some goodies," which Kentucky bought.
Kentucky added, "I just had to dip the pesos," calling it "a sickness."
Other Members' Replies
One member asked whether the sellers knew they were selling silver or whether Kentucky got the coins for a song. The thread in the source contains no answer to that question. Another member wrote that Kentucky had made the pesos look better.
The thread does not say what was bought, how many, or at what price.
Source: CoinTalk, "Garage Sale..." (forum thread; post dates not given in the source).
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