Or How I Managed to Turn A Visit to A Tattoo Studio into Coins.

Every year, around the time of my birthday, I get another tattoo. Sometimes I use the available flash, sometimes I use my own design. This year, I had my own design and had gone to two separate studios and gotten quotes of 180 and 200. For that reason, I had accumulated 300 dollars to easily cover the tattoo and a 20 dollar tip. On a lark, I went to a third studio in downtown Oceanside and got a quote of 120. WOW, I couldn't believe it. Since I had to wait an hour and a half for my appointment, I decided to take that extra 80 dollars and go to my favorite coin shop. I ended up buying a VG 1921 Mercury Dime (to be sent to NGC for grading and inclusion in my registry set), a 1967 Canadian Centennial Coin Set w/silver medal, in a nice leather case, and a set of 2009 Lincoln Cents in a whitman display holder (for gift giving). So an excellent day, more coins, more skin art, can't be beat.