Obviously “hard” is a comparative term. Six hours sitting in a heated shop packing parcels and chatting to customers is not hard compared to some of my previous jobs, and they weren’t hard compared to working on a trawler or building skyscrapers.
However, from starting to finishing, there was scarcely a moment when we didn’t have a customer in, often two or three at a time. We sold quite a lot in the morning, spent over £1,000 buying during the afternoon and ended up selling some more. We did all this with just two people as the boss was off at the York Coin Fair. We often have busy days when he’s away.
Souvenir Medal Castle Rising Norfolk
This is one of the medallions we put on eBay. At this sort of magnification you can clearly see the reflection of my camera and a large quantity of dust. It’s not a stunning level of professionalism is it?
Southwell Minster Souvenir Medallion
I see we’ve already sold seven items on eBay, so we will have to get a move on, as the Post Office closes at noon.
I was almost reminded of one of my father’s favourite jokes about the man who kept a fish shop but had top give it up as morning, noon and night, people kept pestering him for fish.
It is good to see that you are keeping busy.
It is getting in the way of my favoured activities of rudeness and watching Pointless but the money comes in handy.
It does sound like a hard day, but being busy in January must be a very good thing for a shop.
We were busy again today – hopefully it will continue. 🙂
I have a roman coin that my dad assured me that he dug up in the garden, I kept it as certain treasure. On a trip to Croatia I went to a street market and a man selling coins had several of exactly the same coin. It isn’t treasure but I still wonder how fake coins in Croatia in 2010 turned up in my dad’s memory box 60 years ago!
Were they fakes in Croatia? They have a lot of real Roman coins out there. Roman coins are commoner than you might think, and our customers dig them up on a regular basis.
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One day I will drop round to your shop with my tin of coins!
🙂 10-4 Tuesday to Saturday. We have a kettle.
Very good!
🙂
No cat medallions yet? 🙂
Not yet… 🙂