K & M Collectables | Local Leaders the Podcast #187

0:00 Hi, this is Lorie Johnson with Hancock Whitney Bank and you're listening to Local Leaders the Podcast. Visit Local Leaders the podcast dot com for previous episodes or for information on appearing on the show. Hey everyone, and welcome back to another edition of Local Leaders of the Podcast. And first of all, before we say anything else today, if you hear a rumbling of thunder or lightning or rain, which you shouldn't hear much of that, but if you do, it's porn outside cats and dogs and so that's what you hear in the background. But I've got a guest sitting across from me, and if you are in the collectibles field, you've probably seen this guy around. He's been around the collecting hobby, I guess you could say, but not a hobby.

0:48 It's a lifestyle to as of us do like to collect for a long long time. His name is Kevin Keithley, and he is opening a brand new brick and order called K and Him Collectibles. It's gonna be in Central Louisiana, which is right outside of Livingston Parish. Everybody from here and knows where it's at. Uh. And we're gonna talk today about the wide array y'all wide array of things that he'll be able to help you out with. It's kind of what I would describe as a hole in the market right now in this community. And so I'm I'm very thankful that he's opening it up a brick and mortar that those of us like myself that are enthusiast of collectibles can go see him. And and so we're gonna talk about all that today.

1:36 But first, Kevin, welcome to local leaders. Thank you for having me. We're excited to have you. And when we first talked, you know, I couldn't wait to sit you down and talk to you. It's a it's a hobby, and I keep referred to a hobby and I hate to do that with coin collecting or currency collecting or even you know, any type of collecting stamps, sports memorability, any of that, because it's not a hobby to people that are in it. It's more like it that's almost an offensive terms to people known as a hobby though. But yeah, it's it's collecting, it's collecting, and it's investments in your future. Very very true, very true. And you have been doing it for a long time. A matter of fact, forty five plus years. Wow, that's a Let me ask you this before we even get into anything else. So do you remember back when you first got interested in in collecting. Um, yeah, it was I was probably four or five. Ye and every birthday and Christmas, my grandfather would give me, you know, coins. Yeah.

2:39 And then you know, I turned six and he was getting ready to pass away, he gave me my first gold coin. Yeah. It was a real small you know, I think it was a halfpence or whateverybody. It was a gold coin and I just cherished it. But I love the history of coins. Yeah, so that's what that's pretty awesome. We got your gold coin, okay from my grandfather. Very good and and look I preach it all the time to people, but it really is a thing that that parents can do with their kids. You can pass it down to your kids. It's it's a I guess you could say, a pure hobby. And that Um, they're learning things. They're learning the value of investing, learning how to save. Uh. It really teaches them a lot of in history.

3:28 They learn a ton of history in that type of thing. Yeah, my grandfather was the coins. From my father, I got stamps because he was in the stamp collecting and stuff the world and US stamps. Yeah, and so off you went and it was kind of like in the blood I must it sounds like for you, Uh, very very similar thing with me. I kind of started out with you know, as a kid, with starting a penny collection and then it just built from air and as I guess, my income increase, said my interest, which sometimes could be a bad thing, but uh, but it has been uh something that I've done for quite a while as well. My first memory of you is uh at the coin show that I put on in that room. Yeah, yeah, so you bought us raffle ticket and want a gold coin. Who I know, I sparked our friendship. That's it. We've been friends ever since. Yes, absolutely. And uh and so you you really established K and M Collectibles back in twenty sixteen around that time frame, Um, yes, Off and on. Yeah, that's when I really started my main business as coining, uh coining currency supplies. K and M Coining currency supplies. That's an apparent company. And then you know, sparking as I was, people was pushing me to open up a store because it was nothing around. Yeah. Then Off branched in the coin uh, the K and M collectible, Yeah yeah, and and what I really like about it in kinda in your early days of that because I kept dryking about. Um, you you had really supplies

5:01 for just about anything you can imagine. You had a great web and still have a great website. I carry over seventy items. Yeah yeah, and and uh very well managed, very easy to navigate your website. I actually went back on it yesterday evening preparing for this. And and you can order folks directly from the website if you're in another area of the country and you're listening. Uh, you have abased orders and all those sorts of things as well, but uh, you know, for anybody that's local. Yea. Um, I do have a cupon code if if you want to order off the website, it will go ahead and complete the order for you and you can just come by the store and pick it up. So if you're impatient like me, so you don't have to poste the order and then it check out, use cupon code pick up. There ain't shipping, and we're gonna put that in the uh in the description of this podcast, so you don't have to write it down if you're driving just look in the description when you get home and you'll see the cut. I'm gonna put code equals pick up and you just go order. If you see something online you don't have time necessarily to drop by, go ahead and order it and use that code and you can go pick it up straight from K and M Collectible. So we're gonna talk about where they're gonna be located and all that in just a minute.

6:24 But tell me a little bit about your family stuff like that. You grow up where where did you grow up? Was born in Roanoke, Virginia, Virginia ways away, yeah, yeah, moved to Richmond, Virginia, Civil War country. Um. And that's another thing that sparked you on the currency aspect of it, because that was a capital and confederacy, so Confederate notes for abundance up there. Yeah, and I had a ton of it all the time. Yeah. Down here, it's you know, it's a little sparse getting it sometimes, but I do get. But it sells quick, yeah, it really does, and becoming more and more scarce as time goes by, h for sure. And now you're in Central. How long you've been in Central? About fourteen years? Yeah? Yeah, very good, very good. So a good stant You're yeah, you're I'm here to stay. You're here to stay for sure. And let's talk about a little bit about the nature of your business. So, yes, you do coins, Yes you have currency, as you just mentioned, but you have a lot of other things. Let's put it this way. All if you collect it, there's a good chance he might have it. Uh. Stamps you mentioned that. Yeah, you have not only stamps, but you have supplies for stamps, right, supplies for stamps. Uh. Sports cards. The biggest, biggest thing hot right now is Pokemon magic and D and D.

7:48 Yeah, Dungeon Dragon stuff. People are you know, getting back into that. And let me say this. Let me say this for D and D to tell you. You know, all these youngsters running around and they tell about dn D, and let me let me educate you youngsters. I was a youngster playing D and D when it was just a book. It was a little bitty book, and you had four or five of them, and you had a group of friends, and basically you would just come up with stories out of these dn D books. And I was always the one they pick on and take all my power away from me and all that sort of stuff. But I was playing that at like twelve years old, so that actually sparked off Pokemon and Magic Dgmon and all those there are now D and D was the original. Dn D was the original. And guaranteed if you have some of those old original books and stuff like that, those are probably there's probably in value to those. I would imagine I wish I had.

8:46 Yeah, there is. UM. Now let's let's talk about Pokemon for a second. So Pokemon, UM, I can remember from from not from when I was a kid, but I can remember it coming up very popular, and so it's still a hot dealing. Okay, they expanded it, um and they say that there's over forty thousand different Pokemon, really different versions of Pikachu and all the Charles Arden and all those there's there's for over forty thousand different cards. Wow. Wow, and you probably got close to every one of them. So comic books, let's talk about that, because comic books are something that that have not gone by the wayside and have been around a long long time. I do a lot of comic cons around the country set up sell to supplies and stuff, and it's an amazing amount of people that collect comic books and memorability that goes with the comic books. Yeah. Yeah, and look, some of the most beautiful art you'll ever see isn't especially I mean, I'm I'm an old guy, so my stuff goes back to the seventies. But some of those seventies comic books were just I can remember, you know, I was always a comic book fan when I was a kid. Fantastic Four was my thing way before the movie, you know what I mean, Like I was, I was a big Fantastic four fan and and uh and just really love that stuff. I remember in late seventies,

10:20 mid seventies, the Superman and Batman came out with those big giant treasure books. Yeah, that was some of the first treasure comics. Yeah. I used to read Archie comics, remember those loved Archie. Uh some of those can be worth some money really, but I mean with any collectible dotes all based on condition too. Yeah. Absolutely, And that's something very important for people to, uh, to keep in mind. So if you're listening to this, and I don't know, maybe you're you're you're you know, someone in your family, you inherited some stuff, you have no idea what it is, always keep in mind. The better it looks, the more valuable it is. If there's a value to reason why I sell the supplies to protect it. That's right. It's a huge part of it. Yeah, for sure. Uh. And you'll see on our little table here this is some of my collectibles that I had, because Kevin does stock a lot of this stuff. And where we'll start a little bit, I'll show y'all.

11:20 But with the rain, I didn't want to be brained. Yeah, that's right, and I already have mine in here, so um. One of the things you're gonna see here this is a Capital Plastics holder. And anybody in the industry knows Capital Plastics. They're extremely well known. But they make for really nice displays of coins, and they have you know, they have Capital Plastic holders that are huge as big as this table from all sets, yeah, pennies and you name it. They make it. Kevin, if he doesn't stock it in his store, he can sure get it for you. Quote your prices on that stuff. But here you see this as a twentieth century Walkers and it's got a silver eagle in it and a Walking Liberty half dollar. And these are these are quite good grades. By the way, now walking liberties probably MS sixty five and we're probably talking Chinese to you if you're not in the hobby, but if you are, you know what I mean. Yeah, and goes nowadays. You know, um, what year is this? I think that's a I don't even know if it's two thousand, two thousand, Yeah, yeah, you're looking probably it's about a forty five dollar coin. Yeah. The way silver's going on, which is not bad, uh really at all. And and I mean silver fluctuates you also, it goes. Everything's based off of the spot price plus um.

12:35 So if you see spot prices this amount, well there's always a premium on top of that. That's how anybody makes money. Silver is is getting super hard to get, even the mint's going out having the boss silver. So that's what's raising it. And it's raising the premium because there's a band the demand is harder than the supply. Supplying demand always always a big deal when it comes to silver and gold. And we'll talk about that for a second. In that you know, inflation, Inflation right now is a big problem. Okay, Everything everything you buy at the grocery store nowadays is three or four dollars higher. I mean, milk is crazy, Eggs are crazy, all these sorts of things. Well, what silver does for you or gold if you're if you have a little bit more money and you can invest it in gold, is it hedges against that inflation? So Ron Paul, whom some of you may know, his son. His son is in Congress now, but he was in Congress a long time. He made a point one time in Congress when they had the US Mint was there and they were talking to him, and he pulled out a silver eagle out of his pocket, and he said, you can take this silver eagle and you can put it in your pillow right now, and I can pull that same silver eagle out in twenty years and it will buy me the same amount of milk in twenty years that it would buy me today, meaning that the price of that silver would go up if the value of the dollar goes down, and everything else,

14:09 everything else. That's right. So forty years ago or thirty years ago, that silver eagle might have only been more three bucks, let's say, but a gallon of milk was only three bucks. Well, guess what if you pulled that out today, you could actually get a heck of a lot more than one gallon of milk, but not much, not much, you're right, but that is the kind of the point of it. It's real money and all of those sorts of things and and uh so those are the things that you can learn through that through collecting coins. So a lot of people don't realize. In the early two thousands, the government made it legal where you could actually insert silver and gold into your four or one k's right to fiscal gold and silver. Yep, that's right, and uh in a very smart thing to do for people in a way, yeah us in way no, because then somebody else has possession of your well, I like stuff, yeah, yeah, if you want to keep it in your hand, you can't do that. That's right, that's right. And I like physical stuff because if if anything hits the fan, uh, Kevin, I want to make sure that I have it in my hand. You know, I don't want a computer program somewhere to be like we deleted you're in the doory.

15:26 The one thing one thing about you know, if the dollar bill falls aside, you know, if you go to um Jack Smith, hearn's a gas station and he knows what silver's worth. You can take a small silver bar or silver rounds to him and say, hey, you know two of these, will they fill up my gas tank? Yeah, and it's it's a way of bartering. So that's one thing I like about silver is you can always have something what the item is worth, then you always have something to to warter with. Right, That's exactly right. And uh, look, I border, I will border with a lot of people for silver. There's no doubt about it. It's real money. It's the same thing as as money, and it care it holds its value over time. And that's the important thing, uh for me and anybody invested in the star stock market right now, which is that they would have been invested physical time, cashed in their you know, their retirement plan or their stock market and bought silver.

16:25 Yeah, because they lost too much money. Yeah, that's right. And by the time they realize that, they're already out something. Right. So you just want to And that's not to say, look, I've got some stocks. Not all stocks are bad, but but you definitely want to uh diversify, right, you know, divorce versify your portfolio. Had a little bit of stock, have a little bit of coins, have a little bit of everything on that front, and you'll be good. Now. UM, let's talk about uh your currency for a second. You mentioned, you know, civil war currency obviously never goes out of style. Uh, Confederate currency. Um, you have everything to go along with that though. So you're gonna have the the holders for the currency large note, small note, yes, sir, fractional currency, all those sorts of things. What about like albums, Yeah, I gotta carry a full line of albums, um, all sorts of different holders. I have over one hundred and forty different currency supplies. Very good. And as far as comic books, you have the sleeves that they can be inserted in that and y'all these are archival sleeves a lot of times. But it's not just the sleeves. I have UM frames where you can hang them on the wall and there you'd be protected.

17:41 So I mean you, if you got a proud comic book you got, you can actually hang it on the wall and the sun won't fade it. Yeah, because it's U protector, really very good. And let me tell you all the importance of that with comic books. So if you don't have UV protection, it's gonna yellow it. What will happen is over time sunlight or even lights from fluorescent lighting incandescent lighting will sit on that paper and it it'll be just like a newspaper. Think of a newspaper when you leave it out over time, it turns very yellow. Or you don't want that to happen with your Walmart sales receipt. Even after three or four days, the thermal paper starts, you know, fading. That's intentional, by the way, I'm convinced of that. They do that on the cashier that you self checked out didn't do a good job, that's right. We can laugh about that. We love private business around here. Sorry Walmart. Uh so.

18:37 Um So. The point of all that is, no matter what sort of collectibles that you may be looking for, there's a good chance you have it. And what would you say is the hot thing right now? Out of out of all the things you carry, what would you say, is it the Pokemon stuff or the dd or I'm sure they're all popular, but yeah, Pokemon is really hot, right? Uh that in gold and silver? What about beanie babies? Beanie babies, there is a market for there. Really. You have the boxes and the and the cylinders for it. Um it's more nostalgic than there is a big value there. Everything comes full circle. But the new beanie baby is the fungal pops. Really, those are little bubble head fungal pops and there's over twenty thousand funga pops. Huh.

19:27 Who would have figured it? And maybe they'll make one of you. Well, let me get there, you go, I'm ready, Uh, let me You know this is interesting to me and uh, and I see this in the history of collecting. So like when I was a kid, one memory that sticks out to me more than anything else is the very first game room that opened near my house and it was close enough to walk to and I walked to it and I walked in. I was probably look, this is back when time's were safer, but I was probably only ten then. But I go in this game room and there's Frogger and pac Man and these are the real one, y'all from nineteen eighty three. These this is the real stuff, the stand up version. And it was all these lights and I was just blown away. And I can remember that distinctly in my mind.

20:19 Um. Now fast forward, I'm forty eight, almost forty nine years old, and I would buy one today to put in here. Those are collectible. I don't do those. I don't deal enough. Yeah, but they're and what they call antique collectibles. Yeah, and it brings you back to a time. And so the point I'm getting at is like beanie babies, for example, some of those people that are collecting them now were people that may have collected them then whenever that you know, when the early nineties when they were really hot or whatever and they had the tie and the little tag on there. Um, those people now are circling around where that brings them back to a time in their life they were happy and they can remember.

21:02 And so it's funny how all those things come full circle and you get to see that you know more than most right. Yeah, some collectibles are not all about money. Yeah, about you know, feelings, absolutely absolutely. It's what makes the that hobby so such a beautiful hobby. Now let me um, let's talk about the show circuit real quick. So, um, you didn't have a brick and mortar until now, but before that you were actively involved in the hobby. And that was three shows, right, shows are a big deal. I met you at a show. Um, there's one coming up. We want to mention, Well, I did have a brick and mortar years ago up in Virginia. Did you realize okay about fifteen years okay, interesting life changes and ended up closing to move down here.

21:52 Yeah, very good. So so you started on that show circuit though when you were down here and and uh, there's a big one coming up that that we want to mention because this will air on Friday, so to be the same weekend that this show is, and that is the Bloxy Show. Did they have a name for that BLUXI Mississippi State Show. Okay, it's one of the biggest shows in the country, I would I would venture to say, and you've done definitely the one biggest one in Louisiana, Mississippi area. Yeah. And how many booths you got at that? I got about twenty tables? You got some stuff to break, man, that's got to be some work setting all that up. Good grief, Wow, Kevin, Hopefully I'll be Yeah, that's the thing. You pull it all out, you put it up, and you think, hopefully when I have to pack up, it's just tables and no stock. Yeah, but a great show. And I've actually been to that show myself in the past. Uh, and it's at the cal sum there on Beach Boulevard. That's right, and always always a fun time at that one. Uh have you ever done the one in Orlando? The Fun Show? Really you've done that one?

23:02 Now, I've been to that one, but I've never donna go. Yeah, years ago, I've done it and stuff when I lived up in Virginia. But it's just too far off a drive from here. Yeah. Yeah, it's a way eleven hours. Just get there and you're packing, you know, inventory all that way. It's not like you're going to actually went though. One year I scheduled a Disney World trip around it, so it was like, oh, I didn't know they had a coin show this week. I snuck off and my wife was like, where are you going? I said, coinche coinche turned us into a right off. So just kidding, I RS. But uh, but yeah, that that's also another big show that is very popular in the hobby. Now let's talk about your brick and mortar. So, uh, first of all, you chose Central, no surprise, you're from well you're not from Central, but you're pretty much from there. You've been there fourteen years. Um, the Central community been good to you. Yeah, Central has very good. And you I knew you're a member of the chamber there, uh and uh active in the in the chamber, so it was kind of a no brainer. Um incidentally, folks, and I'm gonna put this in the show notes as well. But one three four one four Hooper road is you're a dressing central. Uh So you'll be opening up. When's your first day? Monday Monday fifteen Mondays.

24:25 So just a couple of days after this airs, you'll be good and uh am ready to go. I'm ready to see coming from from ten to five Monday Friday, and then Saturday's by appointment. So you call and if you got something you want him to look at, or you're looking to buy some things, he'll he'll walk you through that process. Reason I did day is because I do still a lot of shows. So that way I'm not closing one or two days a week. You know absolutely wagon say hey this weekend, I can't have appointments. Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it. So they'll be wide open and ready for you though come one day. So uh and like I said, we'll put the address and stuff in the show notes. And so you're getting ready for this brick and mortar. Like any business, A lot of a lot of business people watch this show and and red tape the biggest, the biggest problem with getting anything up, and it's just something we all have to go through. But it's like, oh, come on, I mean, you know, I gotta hang my fire extinguisher on the wall to pass the inspection. I can't just have it sitting on the counter, you know, but nope, they want it on the wall.

25:27 I can speak from experience on that. So let me get a nail and hang this up for you. Um. So the red tape that is, that is obviously the biggest, uh, the biggest hurdle, but you got through that. Um. And as we're talking right now, people are seeing you know, you sent me a picture of the entrance to your to your store, so that should be popping up right here and uh. And then you know, as we've been talking about all these collectibles that you that you keep, those are going to be popping up during this So I say all that to say this, y'all. If you're listening to the audio version, go to YouTube watch the video version, because you're going to actually see pictures of some of the things that we've been talking about during this, uh this particular podcast and out by the road, I got a big Marquis sign that says kindam collectible. So driving down the road, came miss the sea, came missing it. If you miss it, Kevin, I'll chase you down. He'll be running behind you throwing coins at your car. So, uh, you know you ended up opening this brick and mortar and you were seeing success on the show circuit right you were, Um, it wasn't like you, you know, you couldn't make it work and this was just a step to trying to make it work. You were making it work. What kind of led you to just go for it and open a brick and mortar?

26:47 Just the love of the hobby. Yeah, yeah, And I'll hold in the market honestly here locally, especially you know with right now. I bought so ments, so much coins and silver and stuff because people are hurting for money. Yeah. So you know I was buy appointment only and working out an office. Now this will you know, they can just come to me Monday through Friday from eight to five, no appointment necessary, just walk in and be able to sell me stuff if they need cash. Yeah yeah, um, well not really cash because in Louisiana. You have to hate by check. Yeah, uh they need a paper trail, but yeah, it's good as cash. What about like if someone has scrap gold, you know, Burke jewelry, by that, by that, Burke silver, yep, so he buys all that too. Uh, so you can bring you know, if you've got some old necklaces, you'd be surprised with what they might be worth. If you know, he's got testers there. He's gonna make sure that it's uh silver or that it's gold. And if it turns out that it is, uh, you know, you get some scrap gold pricing and and you'd be surprised. But you got what's really popular is the old silver um flatwearer. Yeah yeah, yeah, that your grandmother they have left you or whatever, that's right, or lie cashing that in that's right, that's right. So if you grew up with a silver spin in your mouth, bring it up there Ken, there's no problem at all. And uh and so that but very important to mention because that's something that right now you know, Uh, there's nothing wrong with pawn shops and people go to

28:18 them, but they don't specialize in this stuff, right, I mean you specialize in it. There's a that's a difference to me. And and bring your kids by. If they're not familiar with collecting, He'll introduce them, you know, in you if you're not familiar with it. If if they watch Pokemon or whatever, but they don't understand the collectible value of these things. These are things that these shops give you that you can't get by just watching YouTube or whatever. Right, so something very important to mention on that front. Now, you're doing a ribbon cutting coming up on the tenth of June with the Central Chamber of Commerce. Them folks, good folks over there.

29:02 Yea very good, very good and I know some former Chamber Central Chamber folks that very good friends of mine and good people over there at the Central Chamber of Commerce. Now, so let's talk about social media, and let's talk about the ways that you have been able to use not only social media but also websites and outside of your own in order to assist customers no matter how they may purchase something. For example, Amazon, let's take that Amazon is is something that you have used for a while as as an outlet to sell. Right, have an Amazon store, I have an eBay store, plus my website. Yeah, and uh, and you also have a big social media presence. So you're on instant right, You're on Facebook, You're on obviously eBay. As we mentioned Amazon, I have a page candam coining currency supplies like me on there, and then I'll so have Candem Collectibles the Facebook page on there. And what's the difference in them to Facebook pages.

30:04 One is talking about the collectibles, you know, that joins the currency and stuff. The other one is just strictly supplies. Yeah. Yeah, so you can go on there and give them a like, uh on Facebook. I want to see that jump after this podcast. And in that way I can take all the credit for it, ke because I see built your face. Um. And of course your website is we talked about earlier. You can buy coins directly off there, but you do eBay as well. For you folks that maybe you know strictly ebayers, I mean, the great thing about what you're doing, and when I really dug deep into your business, is that you're you really are coming full circle now with However, people like to buy a lot of people when they're dealing with their silver and their gold and their hobby stuff. They want to do that face to face, right, they want to see the what push this, you know, the brick and mortar building is. You know, coins on the internet are so hard to do because people want to you know, there's fakes out there. There's so much fakes and people are overgrading stuff and all that that you know are clean coins or whatever. So that's the reason. You know, the people want to hold it in their hand to look at before they put out that money. That's right. And and I'll tell you this as well. Um, with the camera technology, now you can make a coin look dang good and then get it in the mail tapping to me. And it made grade what they said it graded, but it sure didn't look as nicely toned in

31:37 person as it did on that picture. What they did was they played with a little bit and made those those golds and pinks pop in that. Now you're really just you're really confusing people because they don't know. They have no idea, but we're going to explain it to them. Great thing about a podcast, So y'all what toning is. And I don't know how well this will show up on camera, but I'm gonna grab this one because it's a little bit better. So this is a Canadian uh dollar from nineteen seventy two. Hopefully y'all can see that, and I'm gonna kind of tilt it just like that, and what you're gonna see, hopefully is you're gonna see a little bit of coloration in that coin. It is a silk pro oxidation, yep. And it's that's right. The air and the atmosphere or whatever you know. It brings yellows, blues, purples make some pop on the coins.

32:27 I like that. I consider that art. There are some collectors that say that's corrosion and they don't like it. I'm sure you've heard that, and I look at them like they got three heads and I'm like, well, then I'll buy it if you don't want to buy it. Um. That's a great thing about this particular hobby is is everybody has their own taste, you know. And I personally love tone coins. Um. I know some people that want to do what they called dipping in the hobby every single tone coin they have. And I'm like different coin cleaners coin dips and stuff because I have a lot of customers to do metal detecting. Yeah, and you know, if a coin's been in the ground, for you on two hundred years, they may name be able to see what type of coin is, so they need something to clean that grossian off and stuff. So I carry a wide variety of stuff absolutely absolutely something for everybody really and and just about every hobby as well. Um, let me ask you because you and I talked off camera about this, but you're you know, you're a coin collector. That's of all the things that you sell, your favorite as coins and currency, right sir, And so I'm gonna ask you a question for me. So as far as coins are concerned, what is your favorite to collect? Um, Morgan's me too, Me too, Morgan dollars. If you don't know what that is, shame on you. But we're gonna make one pop up right now so you can see what a Morgan dollar looks like.

33:52 Absolutely beautiful coins and and mine as well. What about currency anything in Civil War? Um no, some of the earlier large notes, yeah, are really pretty. Something the what they called the silver dollar. Actually, yeah, picture of the Morgan on the bike yep, yep. Martha Washington's the educational series all that is so pretty and it's artwork all that hand. Yeah. Nowadays, you know the money is printed or the dyes for the money is printed by a computer, and it makes the old money look, you know, like artwork. And for me, it would be the porthole.

34:35 The porthole pretty favorite probably a piece of currency. Ever, as far as US currency and Mexico currency from back in the day was very colorful. Yeah, and they had large notes too, they had large notes as well. And uh. And so I had gotten to a point in the currency side of of what I collected where I was seeking out specifically currency from Mexico because man, back in the day they made some and really their coins, their coins from back in the day, we're just absolutely beautiful. Their silver uh pacos and stuff like that. We're really well well made and just beautiful coins. So uh, I only what it is about Mexico, but I always like their currency and their coins outside of the United States. I got two Mexican pieces in right now, actually one Mexican one Puerto Rico. Um.

35:25 They're from the early eighteen hundreds o wilver pieces. Really they bring a couple hundreds to piece. M you should have brought one of those with you. Actually, I'm glad you didn't. I'd probably be giving you one of these mics. Look, I trade you mic collect mics, that's right. Um, So so that's interesting as well. So you do deal in some world currency and world coins also, very good. Look at that, y'all. A little bit for all of y'all. Um, So, how about promotions things like that. We talked about your code that you have online h for anyone you want to pick something up, and obviously if you're picking it up, you're not gonna get you charge shipping. You shout pick up in the description you're planning on doing anything for um, for like your grand opening, any sort of there's gonna be some grab bags good things going on U probably for the next month and stuff when kids come in. I got bought a big collection of sports cards. I'm gonna be giving them some sports cards, you know, common type stuff, just you know, let them know where we're at. Absolutely absolutely, so look for that, um and I'm gonna give you that address again, y'all. It's one three four one four Hooper Road. He's gonna be open Monday through Friday ten to five Saturday by appointment. Uh. And you can go on if you know previously if you want to preview some of his stuff online. That he has you can go

36:58 to buy you coin supplies dot com. That's his website. And you know, we want you to go. If you're local, we want you to go into the storefront and check. Hey, he'd like to meet you. I'm sure and uh and say hello on there you're gonna be let's talk about your shows for a second. So you're gonna be in Biloxi, uh for the Biloxi Show? Anything else coming up? Then next weekend I am in Gonzales at at the gun show. Yeah. I have a table there se in coins and stuff. Very good. So he'll be in Gonzalez And then I'm in town a weekend and I'm uh in uh Birmingham, Alabama to come a con. Wow. Man, you world traveler over here? How many how many shows do you did you go to? Every years? Years ago?

37:45 I was doing about fifty two shows a year. What now I'm down to um because I'm older, I'm down to probably twenty five. Wow, that's still a lot of gas. And but it's because I love people. I love meeting people and you know, seeing the different parts of the country. Yeah, very good. Years ago when I was traveling the coin circuit and doing all the different shows. There's only two states I've never been in, Washington and California. Yeah. I've been in every state, uh, the country US. Yeah, but those two very in California. If you buy something in California twenty years ago and you sell it in Virginia, California once their tax because you bought it in their state. So that's the reason I never went there. Is crazy. Yeah. Man, they've got some crazy rules of California. That's you know what I mean. They're they're in country over there, I think sometimes, but but very interesting it you've been just about everywhere else. Wow, that's that's an accomplishment. And uh and so you're doing a bunch of those shows, but you'll be back here.

38:57 Uh. And if you're curious, like he said, that's why he does appointment only on Saturdays, is he may be at a show, he may not be in town. The UM. Yeah, definitely check us out. But uh, my phone number for the shop is gonna be two two five two five five three six one. UM. Chances are you know, if I'm not this show, I'm gonna be in town now. I'll probably open so and even though I'm by appointment only, if I'm in town. I'll probably open that Saturday for you know, I'm ten to three or something like that, tob full day. Very good, very good. And uh, but he'll he'll stay there in full day if you if you're in there, he ain't kicking you out. He ain't gonna get you out. Uh. So that's good as well. And look, we can't stress it enough.

39:43 Bring bring uh, bring your family buy. It's a it's a family fun atmosphere. It's gonna be over there, K and M and and uh. He can educate you or or whoever on whatever hobby they're interested in. As far as lecting is concerned. Um, let's talk stamps for a second. So stamps way back in the day were super popular, like they were as popular as coin coin collecting. Currency collecting at that probably at that stage wasn't even that big a deal. People people spent currency, they didn't want to collect it, right, And at some point somebody saw some value in that and and everybody started, you know, wanting to collect currency. But stamps kind of have their ups and downs. But you also have some very um, some very loyal collectors and stamp industry, I would say, and it's more of an older hobby. You know, I've noticed that, you know, more of my stamp customer or stamp customers, and you know, the people to buy the supplies are older generation. Yeah you know, I'm not young teens or whatever, but it's the older generation, right, And back in the day they had they had cool stamps, I mean it was you know. Now it's yeah that um forever stamp has killed the market for new new collectibles, but the old stuff is still very quite collect I have one.

41:07 I don't know if it's worthy thing, but it's an upside down airplane and everybody, you're just holding the stamp upside down. That's what it is. Look it's it is. It's upside down. The ring is upside down. Yea for those of you that may not know, that's like a very valuable stamp. So so yeah, that uh stamp collecting though, is very loyal, and I would imagine at your shows you see a lot of the same people at each show, right, like you've become good friends with probably a lot of these yeah, and a lot of dealers. Opt. I have a wide variety of dealers that I work with, So you know, if I don't have in stock what you're looking for. Chances are I can find somebody that does and I can get it in for you. Yeah.

41:50 Yeah, very important to keep in mind. So if you're if you're someone and you're missing that nineteen sixteen d Mercury dime and that's the only one you need. For those of you that don't know, that's the key date in that Mercury dime collection. If you don't have it, he'd probably track you one down. As a matter of fact, I know he could, so um so very important that that that's the importance of really personal relationships that you have with people when you're in that higby, especially when you're talking big money. You want someone you can trust, right, And that trust is the key exactly. And there's the reason I like doing the shows, you know for the years, because I got to know what deals I could trust that would price things right, It would great coins right, so that I could call him and say, hey, you have this, what type of grade is it? You know, and they would ship it to me and have it for the customer. Very I could trust them, very important, and trust from a standpoint of, hey, if I bring something, if I look, if I'm someone that knows nothing of coins. And I were to bring you this, and I were to say, Kevin, I don't know what this is. You know, I inherited it. Um, how much is this worth? It'd be real easy for Kevin to take that and look at it and say I have three bucks, or he could be honest and say what it's worth. Now, this ain't a million dollars. It's beautiful though, it's wreaking abe Lincoln. But um uh, he's gonna give you

43:22 straight price. He's gonna give you, you know what the going value on buying that is gonna be. That's important. Bringing some bunch of Morgans to me the other day. Um, he took him by a pawn shop and I'm not gonna say the name or whatever the pun shop. But he took him by a pawn shop, I'm am sure where it was, and they were gonna give him two dollars three dollars a piece for him a piece a piece, and you know, and he knew because of silver, he knew that that was wrong. So he ended up taking him back and bringing him to me, and he got he got quite a bit more. Yeah that's bad. And yeah, they're probably like, well that's thirty downs faceback.

44:07 Oh lord, that's bad. Yeah, make sure that you're dealing with We call these reputable dealers in the industry. And look, there are some shops, whether it be pawn shops or whatever that maybe they'll give you scrape silver on something that may be worth a lot more because they don't know it's all fair stone conditions. Yeah, yeah, it is. It is. So it's not to say, like Kevin said, it's not to pick on one particular industry, but they're not experts in it. They're gonna give you what they know they can sell it for. And so they're looking at a coin that may be a you know, the most a corson City Morgan for example, which I must in any condition is worse some good money, and they may be looking at that and uh saying, well, I mean scrape silver is you know, twenty dollars an ounce or whatever it is, thirty dollars an ouns. I'm gonna give them thirty bucks. Not because they're trying to be dishonest. He's just don't know. They're not in the industry, right, um, Kevin is. So he's gonna tell you, you know, well, that's worth eighty bucks or whatever, if it's if it's a car.

45:10 I sit there and watch those TV shows online, you know, the pawn stars and stuff out in Las Vegas, and you know they bring somebody who bring something in and they get their praiser in and it's this, and then they go, well it's automaic we have Yeah with me, it's not that way. Yeah. I'll tell you up from what the item is worth, and I pay eighty percent of the value. Yeah, so I make you know when it sells, if it sells next week, or if it sells ten years from now, I make twenty percent. Yeah, So that's as fair as I can be. That's that's fair. Yeah, no complaints there and uh and so check him out, y'all new. I wish we hit a bell. We need a bell in here to say new location, but brand new and location for you and the only location for you. Your your your first brick and mortar. Who knows, maybe you'll have a chain of these, Kevin before it's over with. But we are glad to have to have an option for those of us in my hobby, uh, that we can go to and just look, man, held surprise, how many people are just gonna come hang out from doing springs. It's just right over to make nois bridge. That's it. So I mean it's it's hop skipping a jump, you know, it's throw a baseball from here and reach it.

46:22 Well maybe if you're Ben McDonalds or somebody, but uh, but yeah, not far away at all. Um, what we're gonna do is we're gonna put in the show notes of this episode. I'm gonna put the address, I'm gonna have the hours, I'm gonna have all the information you need. So if you listen to us, which a lot of people listen to us on the way to and from work, no worries. We're gonna put all the description, don't forget to watch the YouTube video and uh and you'll see some of the cool stuff, you know, yeah, in the description because I want people to you know, be able to call me. That's right, Kevin Keithley, Uh, give him a call and uh and he can answer any question you want, if you've got to if you've got coins and you don't know the value. This happens all the time, y'all.

47:06 People inherit things or they're cleaning out, uh you know, grandparents stuff and and uh they come across things, they have no idea what they're worth. Take it from me. I'm avoucher for Kevin, and I will tell you he's going to be honest with you on your stuff. So you can get to his store and he'll be he'll be straight out and honest with you on the value. He'll be straight up and honest with you on what he'll pay for it, and uh and get you taken care of on that front. So yeah, fun man, believe or not. We've been going on us an hour. Oh man, that I'm telling you if flies don't it you know. And that's one thing you know, dealing with me or any other small business you know, is you know, let's say you have a big collection in the bank. Yeah, okay, I'll even go for a small fee. I'll go to the bank and to praise it for you. Yeah.

47:53 And I've sat many of bank vaults with the clients and actually a praise to collections or whatever with lawyers or whatever. If it's inheritance, absolutely, you know, instead of bringing it to me, I'll come to you. Yeah. And you may need it appraised obviously, a fie. I mean, he's got to be compensated for his time. I mean a lot of people need it for an insurance writer because a lot of people don't realize that their homes average homers does not cover silver, silver and gold and stuff, so they have to have a separate rider. Yeah, that's right, That's exactly right. And I found that out years after I had insurance. Uh. I was just talking to my agent one day and I mentioned I have you know at that point, not saying I have that now, y'all because I keep all that in the vault. I don't keep it at my house anymore. But I had a large collection at my house. And he's like, uh, you don't have any insurance on that. And I'm like, yeah, they got homeowners And he says, no, you don't. You gotta have a separate rider for that. You gotta have an endorsement. And it's it's uh, the same thing with like furs or furniture, but antique furniture, you know, if it's you know, my wife's family's got a um uh my un war from Hughie p Long. Yeah, that they bawled out the mansion and they have a special writer on that because it's it's quite valuable. Yeah. Yeah, And with you know people from here. Look, we know what floods are like, and people from central too, and uh and so you better you better have everything dear insured. Yeah hopefully again.

49:31 Yeah, God, I hope so, Kevin, I hope so so. Thank you for coming on man, good luck on your new business. Definitely, we're gonna make you to come. I will come by. I'll come by and I'll even buy something from you. About that, I'll spend some money with you. So but I will definitely be coming by there and checking it out. If you have any more questions, refer to the description. I'm gonna have all kinds of stuff in there. Uh. And until next time, I'm jim Cha reminding you love your community, support local business just like K and M Collectibles, and keep leading. Thanks for coming on