Back in the good ol’ days when I started collecting coins, there was no such thing as an online coin dealer. In fact, the word “online” wasn’t even in anyone’s vocabulary. The internet was still many years in the future.
Skipping forward to my life as an adult coin collector in the 1970s, it was possible, as it had been earlier, to buy coins from distant coin dealers who advertised in the various coin magazines and newspapers. There were no pictures of the coins you were buying, unfortunately. You just had to trust that the dealer graded accurately.
I remember ordering a key
