Selling United States, United Kingdom, and Canadian Proof coins.
COIN DEALER
My seller name has been wheezydog on the internet for almost 10 years.
Most of my selling has been on eBay using that name.
I have 100% positive of well over 1000 feedback and have
had many off site sales as a result of meeting people there
and dealing with them directly once they became my own customers.
I started out almost 30 years ago as a coin collector while making change
on a retail milk route as a milkman for Heisler's Dairy in Tamaqua PA.
My Dad and brother were well ahead of me in collecting but I caught the bug myself,
finding many old coins in change along the route.
I became a member of and then secretary of the Panther Valley Coin Club
for a couple of years. I was a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists
and The Hazleton and Tamaqua Coin Clubs too.
I met an with an odd fellow named Adolf Weiss many times in a fellow collectors home in White Haven PA
with other members of these coin clubs by invitation only and we studied errors and varieties, and learned much about the minting process.
Adolf was the co-founder of a Coin Club called PAK which takes it's name from the original founders initials.
He was quite a celebrity in his time but then one day, he just disappeared. I have no idea what has become of him.
He is partly responsible for the surge in collectors paying closer attention to strike detail on coins like Mercury dimes with full split bands, Franklin halves with full bell lines, and the then lowly Jefferson Nickel with full steps.
I think meetings like this were springing up around the collecting community all across the country and clubs like PAK's FULL STEP NICKEL CLUB and CONECA, an error and variety club, grew like wildfire. Grading standards were revised and more "slabbed" graded encased coins came onto the market.
Our group was determined to keep interest in the hobby of coin collecting by educating and helping young numismatists.
The Jefferson Nickel was inexpensive but both adults and youngsters soon discovered many interesting facts about the rarities that existed right under our nose.
I would consider myself an advanced knowledgeable collector of the Jefferson Nickel series. It is actually my favorite United States coin series.
I had rented sold and bought at bourse tables at coin shows where I dealt with coins in those early 1980's as a rookie and have continued to buy and sell since.
Today, I have an extensive collection of coins that I plan to sell off and it may just take the rest of my life to do it.
The coins you see listed are coming directly from me, from my safe and I am familiar with ever single one of them and probably could give you a story about where it came from and how much was paid for it and to whom but there is too much to sell and too little time.
Some have sentimental value but there is no extra charge for that!
If there is a particular coin you are looking for, ask me in the contact section. I have the coins inventoried and can probably accommodate your want list.
ANTIQUES
I always had a good eye for quality, and being a collector of coins, I was interested in history and the way things were in the olden days.
I've held booths in the Lycoming Antique Shop for a few years in Montoursville, The Canterbury House in Williamsport and Silver Moon in Lewisburg for extra exposure and then became one of the busiest dealers in The Olde Barn Centre in Pennsdale PA. We did the local Antique shows and other events and dealt out of the truck at Adamstown PA.
I often wondered what stories a coin could tell if it could talk. Somehow as I got older the things from my childhood that were gone seemed to lure me back.
I guess I wanted to stay young. BB guns and Tonka trucks started to look interesting again and the sports stars I pretended to be on the sandlot got me into collecting some older baseball and football cards. This all led eventually to collecting antiques.
I started out on bottles but it soon led to the harder stuff.
Before I knew it, my house was full of stuff. Like George Carlin says, my house was just a pile of stuff with a lid on it.
So one day I was out Christmas shopping for my wife in an antique shop and the nice lady asked me if I saw anything I liked.
I told her this place reminds me of my house! She suggested I rent a booth and sell some of my stuff!
I did, then I had two booths, then I was in two shops with two booths and I kept buying more stuff!
I bought a big bread truck and I also drove tractor trailer which came in handy when I found some things on the trip back home from my run.
I've held booths in the Lycoming Antique Shop for a few years in Montoursville, The Canterbury House in Williamsport and Silver Moon in Lewisburg for extra exposure and then became one of the busiest dealers in The Olde Barn Centre in Pennsdale PA. We did the local Antique shows and other events and dealt out of the truck at Adamstown PA.
Finally my wife and I found a building of our own and bought it. The old church in Brookside was vacant for 5 years when we bought it and with some major renovations we opened up Brookside Antiques and stayed in business there for a number of years there.
Eventually all this stuff was beginning to drive me crazy and was getting heavier the older I got so we decided to have a big auction and sell a lot at once.
With the proceeds, we went off to Hawaii for a vacation and of course added onto our house so we could spread out our stuff we still had left!
Now I have stopped buying things. I consider myself as having been as successful at collecting.
I learned an awful lot over the years and have decided that along with the coins, I can probably keep busy selling things for the rest of my life and live comfortably with the income that it provides.
So the things I sell are almost always things that I have collected and lived with at home. They are some of my favorite things.
On occasion, I sell a little bit for friends on consignment.
