B A Coin Dealer

This store made me sad. I recently became interested in coin collecting and noticed this shop one day when I walking down the street. I asked out of curiosity if there’s a difference in the value of a coin that was historic currency, vs just a precious metal coin. The shopkeeper’s response was «only the metal. Gold and silver or I don’t care». That may be the way that the market values the coins, but what made me sad wasn’t even that he didn’t care, but that he didn’t care that his customer cared. It was just very upsetting to see a shop owner who seemed to not care when when a customer is interested

horrible place over priced rude people i wish i never went into this dump don’t go

If they edit
and wiki answers to advertise that they exchange foreign currency in both cash & coin, I’d expect them to actually do so.
So I call ahead. And I ask. Yea, sure come in.
So I drive to midtown from bay ridge with a pocket full of canadian in paper and coin, plus yen euro and HK dollars in coins.
First he quotes me $ 15 for 25 worth, then the INSTANT I ask why he gets an attitude, goes down to $ 11 (and doesnt come back up) and pulls the Israeli asshole «What is this? This is nothing! Worthless! Who takes this?»
Like yo YOUR JOB IS TO EXCHANGE CURRENCY. DONT TELL ME HARD CURRENCY IS WORTHLESS IF THE ENTIRE POINT OF YOUR BUSINESS IS BUYING AND SELLING COIN CURRENCY…
It’s not as if I came in with Lebanese Lira. I came in with about $ 25 of hard currency.
After this asshole pissed me off I left, and went and got $ 12.50 for $ 16 Canadian plus $ 5 for ¥500 yen, plus a couple random Euro and not many hong kong dollars. which I keep finding to this day in random places all over my house. So Not only did I deal with a very nice Mexican guy who gave me none of the pompous arrogant Israeli dipshit attitude or headache, but I got more money than if I’d gotten swindled by this asshole «Yea it makes no sense but I make a lot of money» is LITERALLY WHAT HE SAID WHEN I TOLD HIM HE WAS LOWBALLING ME…
But what I’m really mad about is that I called and specifically said that I had mostly coin, and he said yea come on in I accept it at face value. When I come in it’s a different story. Why? Because he wants hard currency, and seeing as how he’s the only place that SPECIFICALLY ADVERTISES THAT THEY TAKE COINS it struck me as offensive when he tried to basically yell at me to take ten cents on the dollar, with quotes getting lower as I very calmly explained the current market rates. Not that he cared.
Thanks for wasting my day and being a total fucking jerkoff…
And for the record, in Japan you have to spend money to get coins. BUT EVERY MACHINE IN THE COUNTRY ONLY TAKES COINS. So in Japan, land of the robot and vending machine, you need coins to buy your train ticket, to buy a soda, a pack of cigarettes (usually only sold at vending machines at night), a beer, a phone call, etc. This is partially why I was so tight… that and the fact that he was trying to give me 10 cents for $ 2 canadian dollar coins when it’s at parity with the US dollar…

They just moved to 22A West 47^th street between 5^th and 6^th avenue before the Guess Store on 5^th ave. Lovely local Coin Shop.